Sarasota, Florida – October 8, 2012 – Carla Rayman of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate was named President’s Liaison to Panama by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). President’s Liaisons play a dynamic role in maintaining NAR’s partnerships with 80 national real estate associations in 59 countries. She also serves on NAR’s Global Alliances Advisory Group.

Rayman’s responsibilities as President’s Liaison will include hosting delegations from Panama’s real estate association, ACOBIR, who visit the U.S.A. She will also attend the conventions and meetings in Panama and be responsible for organizing trade missions and visits between real estate professionals from both countries. She will focus on further developing relationships between both Associations as a strong foundation for networking between the Associations and their members.

Rayman began traveling to Central America in 2006 and is very familiar with the country’s real estate projects and business practices. She serves as the second vice-chair of the United States-Panama Business Council SE (USPA SE) and works with businesses wishing to import or export from Panama. Carla has been involved with marketing, sales programs, and doing presentations in Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Dubai, Panama, and Spain, promoting investment in Florida real estate. She is immediate past president of the Sarasota Sister Cities Organization who facilitates relationships with Dunfermline, Scotland; Hamilton, Ontario; Merida, Mexico; Perpignan, France; Treviso, Italy; Tel Mond, Israel; and Vladimir, Russia.

Carla and her business partner, Patricia Tan, are two of less than 1500 real estate agents worldwide who hold the NAR designation Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) and also are CIPS instructors. Their Your Global Agents team travels across the globe to speak and promote Florida real estate. Carla recently returned from speaking and exhibiting at a property show and leadership conference in Brazil. Patricia, who is NAR’s liaison to the United Kingdom, just completed the team’s 14th consecutive property show in the UK where she also was a speaker and exhibitor.