Latina to Head Fastest Growing Trade Association For Hispanic Real Estate Professionals

Employee Transfer Corporation Executive takes over role as Chairman of NAHREP

SAN DIEGO/PHILADELPHIA -- APRIL 25, 2005 -- Frances Martinez Myers, the senior executive at Employee Transfer Corporation in Philadelphia, takes over the role of Chairman of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) this month.  A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Martinez Myers succeeds co-founder and outgoing Chairman Gary Acosta as head of the five-year-old, 12,000-member non-profit trade association for Hispanic real estate professionals.

A 30-year veteran of the real estate and relocation industry, she is the first Latina to serve as chairman and the first leader outside its original founders Gary Acosta and Ernest Reyes to lead the organization. She takes over this volunteer role at NAHREP at a time when the industry is redirecting resources to offer expanded services to Latino homebuyers.

"Frances Martinez Myers brings the savvy of a real estate practitioner and the leadership of a corporate executive to her role as head of NAHREP," said outgoing chairman Gary Acosta.  "She is the perfect person to lead the organization to greater prominence at a time when Hispanic consumers are becoming a super force in the marketplace."

"Homeownership is the hallmark of the American Dream; it creates financial wealth and that can make dreams come true.  NAHREP is posed through its mission to help advance the economic wealth of Hispanics in this country," said Martinez Myers.  "My involvement with NAHREP personally fulfills a long established goal of mine to never forget where I came from and give back in a way that is meaningful."

Martinez Myers serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Realtors, Freddie Mac's Affordable Housing Advisory Council and the National Advisory Council of Fannie Mae.  She is also a member of worldwide Employee Relocation Council (ERC) and has received its meritorious service award.

NAHREP is in its fifth year of existence and has experienced 25 percent annual growth in its membership in recent years as practitioners scramble to learn ways to better serve the Spanish-speaking 1.5 million Latino homebuyers that are projected to enter the housing market by 2010.

NAHREP's mission since its inception is to increase the rate of homeownership amongst Hispanics by empowering practitioners with tools and information that will help them better serve homebuyers.

Based in San Diego, NAHREP is a non-profit 501c6 trade association and the premier organization for Hispanics in the real estate industry.  Founded in 1999 by veteran practitioners Gary Acosta and Ernest Reyes, the organization has more than 12,000 members in 50 states and 31 affiliate chapters.

Employee Transfer Corporation is a relocation management company based in Philadelphia.  Under Martinez Myers' direction, Empoyee Transfer

Corporation has undertaken an aggressive campaign to establish partnerships with minority real estate and relocation suppliers throughout the world.

For additional information about Employee Transfer Corporation please contact Rita Nilon at 610-595-3159.