PORT ANGELES — Windermere Real Estate of Port Angeles and RE/MAX Performance Team of Port Angeles will combine next month under the Windermere banner.
Alan and Michaelle Barnard will cease operations as a RE/MAX franchise at 1007 E. Front St. on or about Nov. 1 and will move their real estate practice a few blocks west to the Windermere office at 711 E. Front St.
They will offer their RE/MAX building for lease.
“We’ve had a wonderful and productive 10 years as RE/MAX,” the Barnards said in a statement.
“But after nearly 16 years running our office and two other real estate offices before opening our own RE/MAX franchise, we are ready to let go of management duties and ownership responsibility to just concentrate on servicing our clients as full-time managing brokers with Windermere.
“Windermere Port Angeles offers the strongest opportunity for us to represent our many clients who we have served for nearly 20 years with the greatest resources, reputation and market strength that we could ask for.”
The Barnards had managed the Windermere Port Angeles office from 1997 through late 2000 before opening their RE/MAX agency.
Said Terry Neske, owner of Windermere Port Angeles as well as Windermere SunLand, Windermere East in Sequim and Windermere Port Ludlow:
“Alan and Michaelle bring nearly 40 years of combined real estate expertise and management experience to my office . . . we have worked closely together going back to the middle-1990s.”
Neske noted Alan Barnard’s “extensive community service involvement supporting our county public safety agencies and many other important programs and organizations.”
Alan Barnard, 65, is the chairman of both the Port Angeles city’s Public Safety Advisory Board and the Clallam County Sheriff’s Citizens Advisory Committee.
He is the county emergency management aviation coordinator. He also represents the city of Port Angeles on the Clallam County Opportunity Fund Board.
He has been the Port Angeles stop organizer for the Wings of Freedom tour when it brings vintage World War II aircraft to William R. Fairchild International Airport for a living history exhibit.
He led a citizens group to dedicate a 9/11 monument at Francis Street Park on Sept. 11, 2002.
He ran in last August’s primary election for Clallam County Department of Community Development director.
He finished third in a five-person race, garnering 22 percent of the vote.
