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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Nina Hatvany, the top individual residential real estate agent in San Francisco, has joined the Pacific Union International family.

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Hatvany, who was TRI Coldwell Banker’s #1 top producing individual agent for over 20 years, posted over $180 million in residential real estate sales in 2012. She represents both buyers and sellers of luxury homes, condominiums and apartment buildings.

“Pacific Union is honored to have Nina join our firm,” said Patrick Barber , President – San Francisco Region. “Nina is an exceptional individual and a stellar real estate professional. Her commitment to her clients’ best interests, her unparalleled market knowledge, and her high standards of excellence and integrity match perfectly with Pacific Union‘s standards of elite performance.”

“The international exposure and cachet of Pacific Union‘s association with Christie’s International Real Estate will provide a fabulous showcase for my high-end listings,” said Hatvany. “With that in hand, and now that my career is established, I am eager to move into a period of growth and high energy along with my daughter and son, Natalie and Paul. Pacific Union gives us that platform in a warm and supportive environment.”

Hatvany has a uniquely deep perspective on the world of real estate, having also spent over 30 years in real estate development. She helmed several condominium and townhouse development projects in Palo Alto, then turned her talents to remodeling and earned a contractor’s license. She has refurbished several Bay Area apartment buildings and has restored and rehabilitated numerous homes in San Francisco herself.

Prior to her real estate ventures, Nina was a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and later the Graduate School of Business at Berkeley, California. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford in psychology and is widely recognized as one of the best-trained negotiators in the business.

Hatvany, who is originally from London, and her husband have lived in San Francisco for thirty years, where they raised three children. She is active in the community and is a former board member of both Big Brothers and Sisters of the Bay Area and International Women’s Forum, and is a current executive board member of Larkin Street Youth Services, which provides services and shelter to homeless youth.

About Pacific Union International
Pacific Union International is the San Francisco Bay Area‘s premier luxury real estate brand operating in seven regions, including the East Bay, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Napa County, San Francisco, Sonoma County, and the Tahoe/Truckee area.

With offices in eight Northern California counties, Pacific Union offers a full range of personal and commercial real-estate services including buying, selling, and relocation.

Locally owned, Pacific Union‘s leadership operates with an entrepreneurial mindset and unwavering commitment to deliver exceptional service and expertise to ensure deep, long-standing client and agent relationships.

For more information, please visit us at www.pacunion.com, get our real estate news and insights at blog.pacunion.com, or find us on Facebook (facebook.com/pacificunionrealestate) and Twitter (@pacunion).

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Word was last week that federal banking regulators, not the state attorneys general, were going to announce some kind of “enforcement action” against 14 big banks/servicers in the so-called “robo-signing” foreclosure paperwork mess today or tomorrow.

Now I’m told that may be a bit delayed, and now I’m reading the state attorneys general’s expected punitive monetary “settlement” is also in question.

The regulators are all about fixing and tightening the process of processing foreclosures. The AGs need to appease their constituents a bit more by getting something back from the big banks, which they claim got homeowners into this mess in the first place and then proceeded to mess it up even more when they couldn’t handle the outcome of their wrongdoings, i.e. foreclosures.

The controversy among the AGs is largely over principal forgiveness. Some have proposed a $20-25 billion fund that the banks would pay into that would go to lower the balance of troubled borrowers’ loans. A report today from three professors and banking experts, Charles Calomiris of Columbia Business School, Eric Higgens of Kansas State U and Joseph Mason, of the Wharton School of Business, argues that a settlement involving principal write down “would generate significant unintended negative consequences for housing and financial markets.”

Here’s the gist of it:

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