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Florida Realtor Magazine Wins Top Awards
FAR’s Publication Recognized for Writing, Design Excellence

ORLANDO, Fla., September 2007 -- Florida Realtor, the Business Magazine of Florida Real Estate and monthly trade publication of the Florida Association of Realtors® (FAR), recently won six awards during the 2007 Florida Magazine Association’s Charlie Awards competition.

This year, Florida Realtor took home numerous Charlie Awards, the competition's top honor or gold standard. Under writing excellence, in its Trade/Technical category, the magazine won a Charlie Award for Best Written Magazine; a Charlie Award for Best Feature, “All the Right Moves,” March 2007; and a Silver Award for Best Column for “Makeover,” June 2006.

Under design excellence, Florida Realtor received a Charlie Award in its Trade/Technical category for Best Illustration for the December 2006 feature, “Sky High Service” and a Bronze Award for Best Cover for the June 2006 issue.

Florida Realtor magazine also was honored for General Excellence in the Trade/Technical category with a Charlie Award for Best Overall Magazine.

“Our focus is to provide Florida Realtors with a magazine that gives them valuable information they can use to improve their business – one that helps them work more efficiently and effectively,” says David Hall, chairman of FAR’s Communications Committee for 2007 and a Port St. Lucie Realtor. “But we are proud that Florida Realtor magazine has achieved the recognition it so richly deserves with these awards. Our magazine works so well because of the input of our Realtor members. It’s a team effort.”

The Florida Magazine Association is the professional organization for the state’s publishing industry and represents more than 220 magazines in Florida. More than 900 entries were submitted for this year’s Charlie Awards contest from 70 publications produced in Florida. Awards were presented Aug. 25 in Orlando during FMA’s 2007 Publishing Conference & Expo.

The Florida Association of Realtors, the voice for real estate in Florida, provides programs, services, continuing education, research and legislative representation to its 150,000 members in 67 boards/associations. FAR's Media Center Web site is available at http://media.living.net.