Luxury-home brokerages in Boulder combine forces

BOULDER — Residential real estate agency Bodin Realty International in Boulder has been acquired by LIV Sotheby’s International Realty, establishing a second office in Boulder for the brokerage of luxury homes.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Bodin Realty International’s office in the Twenty Ninth Street retail district in Boulder will operate as LIV Sotheby’s International Realty, in addition to LIV Sotheby’s office on Walnut Street in downtown Boulder, said David Carner, LIV Sotheby’s International Realty Boulder’s vice president and managing broker. The merger creates an agency with 30-plus brokers.

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Jim Bodin, 74, co-founded Bodin Realty in 1966, which became Coldwell Banker in 1984 and later became Bodin Realty International, an independent residential real estate brokerage marketing luxury homes in Boulder County worldwide. Bodin declined to discuss the acquisition.

A top-selling Realtor in Boulder for 50 years, Bodin will be a broker associate at LIV Sotheby’s. Brokers and staff at Bodin’s have been given the opportunity to join Sotheby’s. Carner said most of Bodin’s 24 brokers have made the transfer. There are 14 brokers in LIV Sotheby’s office on Walnut, he said.

Carner has had a close working relationship with Bodin for 24 years. Carner joined Bodin as a broker associate with Coldwell Banker Bodin Realty in 1992, and was the manager of The Bodin Team from 2002 through 2008. After serving six years as a business consultant to the Coldwell Banker brand, Carner returned to Boulder to lead the Boulder operation of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty.

“I am honored and humbled that Jim Bodin has chosen to entrust LIV Sotheby’s International Realty with the continuation of his great 50-year legacy,” Carner said. “Throughout my career in Boulder, Jim has been a personal role model for doing business right. The company he has built reflects those values that I found so attractive, and joining forces with his brokers really is a perfect fit for our plans to grow and serve the Boulder luxury market.”

LIV Sotheby’s International Realty is a franchise of Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. LIV Sotheby’s International Realty is owned by president R. Scott Webber. About 300 brokers operate out of LIV Sotheby’s 13 offices in Denver, Boulder, Evergreen, Castle Pines Village and the resort communities of Breckenridge, Vail and Beaver Creek.