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Barrett Sotheby's International Realty named a Top 100 Women-Led Business by The Commonwealth Institute

Barrett Sotheby's International Realty has been named to the 12th annual list of Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts by The Commonwealth Institute, a Boston-based non-profit devoted to aiding women in business. Since 2002, the institute has compiled an annual list of for-profit women-led companies, based on revenues. This year for the first time, the Globe Magazine partnered with the institute to publish the list. There are nearly 200,000 women-owned companies in Mass., employing more than 175,000 people, according to The Boston Globe. "Each of the women on our Top 100 list has made a significant impact on the Commonwealth's economy and has established herself as a visionary leader of a successful company," said The Commonwealth Institute's executive director, Aileen Gorman Laurie Cadigan, CEO and owner of Barrett Sotheby's International Realty, purchased the company in 2007 from Jane Barrett, who started J.M. Barrett & Co. in 1977. Since 1977, Barrett Sotheby's International Realty has grown into one of the most successful independently owned and operated Massachusetts real estate companies. For over 35 years their outstanding reputation and ethical standards has begun with their agents, who join the Barrett team by invitation only. Their excellence in service and dedication to the consumer extends through in-house marketing, technology, and new construction departments, and continues all the way to company president Laurie Cadigan, who is always accessible to agents and clients alike. They specialize in residential home buying and selling in the cities and towns of Greater Boston. Their national and international reach is unmatched with our in-house relocation division and and Sotheby's International Realty affiliation.
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