Karen Eastman Bigos, e-PRO

Few Realtors know more about Millburn and Short Hills than Karen. People actually call her as a 411 service to gather info about the community or to ask a trivia question. Who better to call than someone who grew up here and has lived in the area for 50 years?

Knowledgeable, reliable, driven, and creative are but a handful of adjectives that best describe Karen Eastman Bigos, the consummate professional Realtor. After 22 years of selling Residential Real Estate for Weichert Realtors and Burgdorff Realtors, Bigos and her business partner of nine years, Daniel Cannizzo, put their expertise into designing a new brand and launched an independent Real Estate Boutique called Towne Realty Group, LLC. in February 2006.

Located at 511 Millburn Avenue, Short Hills, Bigos & Cannizzo just expanded their 2nd floor office into newly renovated space on the first level of the same building where they added an additional 2,000 sq. feet of luxurious office space. They have hired top agents from other companies and are in a growth phase as they round the corner on their first $250 million in sales.

The office is just two blocks away from where they attended Millburn High School, and steps from the two large corporations where Bigos worked for more than a decade each. Following in her mother Sandi Eastman’s footsteps as a local Realtor, she focused her entire career in the community where she was raised and she works to give back to her hometown by holding a seat on the Board of Directors of the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce since 1991, raising funds for the 4th of July Committee and serving on the Board of Trustees for the Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society, where she contributes valuable data and photos on local Real Estate.

In 2008 she coordinated her Millburn High School 30th Reunion and she found all but 20 of her 350 classmates with tireless searches on over 8 websites and endless networking, phone calling and bulletins on local TV and newspapers. She built a website at
http://www.Millburn78.com to help bring people together and to make the event accessible to graduates who are all over the world. Over 200 people attended and Karen got scores of friends and classmates reconnected by inviting everyone to join Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other popular networking websites where she has thousands of contacts!

Completing her 19th year on the Board of Directors of the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce brings a lot of satisfaction. This is an organization that her late father, and former downtown business owner, Martin Eastman, served as a past President. Her participation shows her commitment to the public and she enjoys networking with business owners, some of whom she has known her entire life. Never one to shy away from contributing time to charitable organizations, Bigos believes that success is more satisfying when she gets involved in causes outside of her occupation.

No stranger to hard work, Bigos has been recognized by the New Jersey Association of Realtors for earning the Circle of Excellence Award for twenty years and she was twice named the Number One Agent at her former company, consistently placing in the top ten for the entire corporation year after year. If plaques and awards told the whole story, Bigos could write a book as one of the top Realtors in Short Hills for over a decade. In 2007, she was selected to be on the cover of North Jersey's Broker - Agent Magazine, based her solid reputation amongst her peers.

Working with her are, Daniel Cannizzo, her husband, Mark Bigos, and Sales Manager Carolee Jones, gives the whole operation the precision of a fine-tuned machine that is a winning combination. Bigos says, “We all agree that the way to be successful is to focus on total transaction service. Keeping our clients and customers well informed, being fair, treating fellow colleagues with respect, paying attention to all the details, and keeping ahead of the competition with revolutionary technology are the trademarks of our winning record in the past and what will keep us focused on building for the future.”

One of the best reasons to hire Bigos is that she likes her job and she is always willing to go the extra mile. Certified as an e-PRO in November 2008, Bigos is all about technology yet Towne Realty Group does business the old fashioned way; one client at a time, where the relationships with their clients and customers take precedence and the company has all the savoir-faire of the 21st Century. Follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/KarenBigos

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