Program recognizes top-performing luxury real estate specialists in Christie’s network

Wendy Banner, a sales associate in Long & Foster | Christie’s International Real Estate’s Bethesda Gateway office in Bethesda, Maryland has been named to Christie’s inaugural Masters Circle. Banner was chosen based on her expertise at the high end of the real estate market and ability to deliver an exemplary level of service to sophisticated clients around the world.

Banner sold 120 properties for a total sales volume of $134 million last year. An agent for 30 years, Banner joined Long & Foster | Christie’s in 1987. Banner’s long-standing sales success and local reputation has placed her in the top tier of Realtors year-after-year and now Christie’s has named Banner among the elite group of Realtors serving buyers and sellers of fine properties worldwide.

Christie’s announced the formation of the Masters Circle with the naming of its 2019 members. The Masters Circle is a group of top-performing agents within the Christie’s global invitation-only network. The 2019 Masters Circle membership represents over 4,700 combined luxury home listings with areas of market expertise ranging from waterfront, equestrian, mountain, and ski to vineyards, development, urban, suburban and private islands, among others.

“We congratulate Wendy on being named to Christie’s inaugural Masters Circle,” said Jeff Detwiler, president and CEO of The Long & Foster Companies, parent company of Long & Foster Real Estate. “We are very proud of these agents and the levels of success they have been able to reach, and we offer each of them our gratitude for helping to make Long & Foster the leading real estate company in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast.”

Long & Foster is the nation’s No. 1 real estate company as part of HomeServices of America. For more information, visit longandfoster.com.