By Gino Blefari, Chief Blogger
Gino Blefari is the Founder, President and CEO of Intero Real Estate Services. He launched the company in 2002 and with the help of a top–notch executive team built it into one of the largest real estate brokerages in the country. In July of 2005 Intero was recognized by Realtor® Magazine as the fastest growing real estate company in the nation, ranked #1 out of approximately 80,000 brokerages.
Gino began selling real estate in 1984 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he’s known as one of the region’s most successful agents, managers and executives. Averaging 50 home sales per year in his career, he’s set the gold standard by which many of his colleagues mark their success.
Prior launching Intero, Gino was part owner in Contempo Realty, a Silicon Valley startup he helped build into a $2.4 billion brokerage. Contempto was acquired by NRT in 1997, and through several rounds of consolidation, it eventually merged into Coldwell Banker to form a 90-office, 4,000-agent strong brokerage with over $24 billion in combined sales. Blefari served as the senior vice president for NRT until the summer of 2002, when he broke off to start Intero.
Throughout his career, Gino has been committed to raising the professional standards in the real estate industry for agents and brokerages alike. When he launched Intero, he did so with the intent of building a different kind of real estate company, one that treated its agents and clients with the respect and integrity and was dedicated to giving back to the community.
Of all his qualities, what most defines Gino is his relentless desire to better his life and the lives of those around him. He is intensely committed to his own professional and personal development an has been influenced by the teachings of motivational speakers and business thinkers like Zig Ziglar, Og Mandino, Mike Ferry, and Jim Rohn. He shares his real estate knowledge with future realtors in a class he teaches at De Anza College called “Principles of Real Estate,” and in addition to having inspired the Intero Foundation, which to date has awarded more than $650,000 to charities and nonprofits, Gino is actively involved with local groups like the Silicon Valley Heart Walk.
