Beacher Shea Warrington named Royal LePage’s National Realtor of the Year
By ALAN SHACKLETON
Beacher Shea Warrington was recently named Royal LePage Real Estate’s National Realtor of the Year during an awards ceremony held in Calgary.
Earlier this year, Warrington had also received the Royal LePage Real Estate Realtor of the Year Award for Ontario.
Warrington, who is an agent with Royal LePage Estate Realty in the Beach, said being announced the winner of the national award while at Royal LePage’s recent conference came as a surprise to her.
“I had won Ontario a few months ago and the national winner was named at our national sales conference in Calgary,” Warrington told Beach Metro Community News. “I had no idea (she was going to win the national award). I had no idea for Ontario either.”
A life-long Beacher who grew up in the community, she attended Williamson Road and Glen Ames schools and also Malvern Collegiate. Warrington still calls the Beach home and always will.
“I will live in the neighbourhood forever,” she said.
Continuing the family tradition in the Beach with her children, Warrington’s two daughters are Malvern Collegiate grads and her twin sons now attend the school.
Royal LePage’s National Realtor of the Year Award recognizes agents for their work in and support of the community they live and do business in. Warrington said that’s what made being named this year’s recipient such an honour for her.
“It’s not about selling real estate. This award is more about your contribution to your community,” said Warrington. “You know I’m all about the community, and to be able to give back and not just run a business here means so much to me.”
Warrington is involved in numerous local projects, and supports food banks, charitable organizations and causes, and community events such as last year’s Beaches Santa Claus Parade, The Beach BIA’s Santa in the Beach, Lola’s Dip in the Beach for the Hospital for Sick Children and so much more.
One of the community causes that Warrington is a big supporter of is the work done by the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. She holds an annual garage sale to raise funds for the foundation, which helps support women and families escaping family violence and abuse.
Last year’s Shelter Foundation garage sale held by Warrington was at her Shea Sells Boutique office in the Kingston Road Village.
At the sale, a valuable sectional couch had been donated as an item to be sold and it was drawing a lot of attention from those at the sale, she said.
“Everyone loved it and it was getting a lot of interest. There was a woman at the sale who had bought a few small things and we found out she had just moved out of a shelter. We cancelled everything at the sale right there and we took the couch to her new place. From my staging location (which has furniture and electronics used to furnish homes for sale) we furnished her place and were able to help her out in her new one-bedroom apartment,” said Warrington of that day.
She said that incident once again made her realize how important the work done by the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation is.
“It really hit home for me again when we had that happen at the garage sale and how ironic and how close and real that is to home,” said Warrington of the impact that day’s garage sale on Kingston Road.
“It’s good to have a place in our neighbourhood where we can do these things and help make a difference.”
Warrington said that when the National Realtor of the Year Award was being presented in Calgary, all of the provincial winners were on the stage. “When the host started telling the story of what had happened at our garage sale I knew I was the winner.”
What Warrington said she found most to be proud of at the Calgary conference was not her own personal achievements, but that the agents at the event raised $250,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.
“That was what was most overwhelming about the week,” she said.
“What’s extra mindblowing is that this company is so incredibly generous and it’s especially meaningful to be recognized by the great company I’m with.”
Being able to share the honour with so many members of the Royal LePage Estate Realty team who also attended the Calgary conference made the award extra special, she said.
“It was super emotional and there were 16 of us there from the team in Calgary.”
Warrington said being a member of the organization she is with and its values of supporting the community it is in are extremely important to her.
Last year, Chris Dunlop (who is the Owner and Broker of Record for Royal LePage Estate Realty) won the company’s Philanthropist of the Year Award.
“It starts at the top,” said Warrington.
