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Sue Wolverton has been in residential real estate for 35 years. The bulk of her career has been with Coldwell Banker, first in Atlanta and later in Miami-Dade and Fort Lauderdale Beach, where she was a regional manager. Wolverton relocated to the Sarasota-Manatee market in 1990. She currently oversees 23 Coldwell Banker offices on the Gulf Coast, from Manatee County through Marco Island.

Q: How did Coldwell Banker do in 2011?

A: We were up about 30% and then we hit a 60-day craziness when the stock market started being challenged in August, particularly in the Sarasota market. We are vastly affected by the stock market for the luxury second home marketplace. But it picked up. Now we are very busy. We also had a huge group of agents who came to us from Century 21 Advantage and from Prudential in Sarasota.