Betsy Pepine, MBA
Broker-Owner
Betsy moved to northwest Gainesville in 1974. After graduating from high school, she left Gainesville to pursue a business education at Duke University and a MBA in marketing from The Wharton School of Business. After a ten year career in pharmaceutical marketing, she returned to her hometown Gainesville and pursued her interest in real estate. Having been a real estate investor for years, she turned my passion into a career by becoming a full-time Realtor. Betsy soon became a broker and opened Pepine Realty and began building a robust real estate team, helping families and businesses with their relocation, second-home purchases, primary residences and office spaces. Her team stays very active in the community, volunteering regularly in the communities that have supported them. Pepine Realty has three offices in Gainesville, St. Augustine and Orlando, FL and also serves Ocala, Jacksonville, Flagler, Ormond and Daytona Beach. Personally, in addition to working full time as a broker of real estate, Betsy is an active volunteer in the community and internationally, earning a nomination for the Gainesville Sun's Community Service Award, having served on the PTA board at my daughters' schools for several years, as well as on her neighborhood's HOA board. She has been active teaching Gainesville's youth at church, assisting with homelessness in the community and have raised several guide dogs for the blind. She has also served as a Trustee at Trinity United Methodist Church. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors, running, traveling, wine, cooking and reading. Most importantly, Betsy has two daughters and three rescue dogs with whom she devotes significant time.
Awards:
- 2017 Wall Street Journal Ranked Top 250 Teams in the USA
- #1 Residential Team in Alachua County 2016 & 2017;
- #1 Residential agent in Alachua County 2011-2015
- Voted top 3 finalist in Leading Women's Enterprise category in 2015 and 2016 by the Alachua County Chamber of Commerce
- Sits on Board of Directors for Gainesville-Alachua County Association of Realtors, the MLS Finance Committee and Capital City Bank
- Selected for and participated in Leadership Gainesville and Leadership Development Program by GACAR and consistently gets into GACAR's Honor
- Society, Leader's Elite and receives yearly RPAC awards for her contributions
- Certified Residential Specialist (CRS)
- Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS)
- Graduate Realtor Institute Designation (GRI)
- Council of Real Estate Brokerages (CRB)
- WSJ Ranked Top 250 Teams in the USA 2017
- Large Business of the Year 2017
- Best of the Best Real Estate Company 2017
- Director of Public Relations for Gainesville Rotary
- Leadership Committee Member for the Urban Land Institute
- Diplomat for Alachua County Chamber of Commerce
- Mentor for the Gainesville Entrepreneurship and Adversity Program
- National Association of Realtors
- Florida Association of Realtors
- Gainesville/Alachua County Association of Realtors
- Gainesville Golf and Country Club