YORKTOWN HEIGHTS – Keller Williams Realty Partners of Yorktown Heights has significantly expanded its market area to the southwest with its merger of Albert P. Schatz Realtors of Ossining and to the east with the recent closing of its merger deal with Realty Executives WPR of Somers. 
     Walter Sadowski, Team Leader of Keller Williams Realty Partners, announced the firm’s merger with the storied Schatz firm on July 1 and its deal with Realty Executives WPR, headed by Randall J. Calano, on
July 15.
     The merger deals involve the addition of a firm that dates back 47 years and a company whose roots only go back four years. 
     Albert Schatz started the Ossiningbased real estate brokerage company in 1962. Since then he and his wife Mary Elizabeth (‘Liz”) have been staples of the local, state and national Realtor  community. Albert Schatz served as WCBR President in 1982 and earned WCBR’s Realtor of the Year Award in 1983. Mary Elizabeth served as WCBR President in 1988 and is a two-time Realtor of the Year honoree, winning the prestigious award in 1980 and again in 1989.
     Sadowski said that after the merger deal, the Schatz office at 109 Croton Ave. will be known as Albert P. Schatz at Keller Williams. The former Realty Executives office at 378 Route 202 will remain open and will now be a Keller Williams Realty Partners branch office. 
     Eric Schatz, who along Gregg Schatz were principals of the office at the time of the merger, said that the firm has been at that location since 1970. “Since we have been here every franchise that has ever been has been knocking our door down and just about all of them have come into the community and left… We never wanted to be affiliated with any of them (the franchises) because they would have taken our identity and wouldn’t deliver as much in the way of service as we already had in the office,” Eric Schatz said.
     Gregg Schatz noted that the Schatz firm retains its identity with the Keller Williams merger, will retain all 10 agents, and will now be provided with the tools and training required in today’s market as well as be afforded the opportunity to grow together.
     Albert and Mary Elizabeth Schatz, added, “Keller Williams Realty Partners is the only real estate company we would want to continue our strong family tradition with.”  
     Keller Williams’ Sadowski related that the firm was looking for opportunities to expand and was attracted to the Schatz firm due to its long-standing roots and great reputation in the community.     
     “We are extremely pleased to welcome the Schatzs to the Keller Williams family. The values and beliefs of the two go hand-in-hand and we are expecting great things together,” Sadowski said, noting that the firm now plans to add new agents to the new Ossining location.
     He said that for Keller Williams Realty Partners to grow, it required additional offices to service its clients other than just its main office at 2649 Strang Blvd,. in Yorktown Heights, where it has 75 agents. Keller Williams Realty Partners’ market area runs from Somers and follows the Putnam County border to the Hudson River down to Briarcliff.                                                                               
     Commenting on its new office in Somers, Sadowski related that the company’s merger with the former Realty Executives office, adds another 10 agents to the Keller Williams Realty Partners fold. 
     Calano, now an Associate Broker with Keller Williams Realty Partners, said that he is hopeful to “at least double” the number of agents at the Somers office in the next month or two. Calano launched Realty Executives WPR four years ago.
     “We are planning on growing this office and possibly shooting north of here (Southern Putnam County) and a little south of here (Bedford/Katonah market area),” Calano said.

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