‘An Interesting Year’
BUSINESS
Coldwell Banker exec sees home sales staying strong By Paul Maryniak
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Coldwell Banker Realty Arizona President and Scottsdale resident Greg Hollman. (Submitted photo)
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ooking back at 2021, realtors might be tempted to paraphrase from Charles Dickens: It was the best of times and the craziest of times. Just ask Greg Hollman, the Scottsdale-based president of Coldwell Banker Realty Arizona, a position he has held the last seven of his 25 years in home sales. As he looks back not just at this year but the age of COVID-19, he marvels at how the economic uncertainty of the first couple months gave way to one of the hottest housing markets — and one that defies most conventional real estate wisdom by showing no end in sight. “It definitely has been an interesting year,” Hollman says. “When you go back to COVID-19 originally coming on to the news media and not knowing the effects that it would have and how it actually ended up in many ways outliving predictions of doom and gloom and has actually excelled ever since, I think that is a very interesting fact.” And surprising, he adds. “I think it took most of us by surprise — not knowing how people would react to
