Ben G. Schachter is the Real Estate Broker and President of Boca Raton-based The Signature Real Estate Companies. Ben’s role is critical to Signature’s day-to-day operations and long range goals and his unique and extremely effective hands-on management style ensures top down quality control and proper delegation of tasks for an extremely diverse organization.
As an undergraduate at The University of Florida, Ben majored in Political Science and gained valuable experience working part-time at a Gainesville real estate brokerage. He quickly concluded that real estate was his passion. Upon graduation in 2000, Ben relocated to South Florida, where he became an integral part of his family’s mortgage banking business. He continued his real estate career, concentrating on the luxury and ultra-luxury real estate markets as well as commercial real estate development, which allowed him to develop valuable experience working hands-on with sophisticated customers from around the world. In 2006, Ben joined The Signature Real Estate Companies and soon became President and one of the firm’s owners. Under Ben’s leadership, Signature has grown to 16 residential and commercial real estate brokerage offices with over 1000 Real Estate Professionals! Signature’s exponential growth is evidenced by its approximately 5,000 annual resale and rental transactions, which ranked Signature as the #2 real estate brokerage in Boca Raton and #33 in Florida for transaction volume according to the 2020 Real Trends 500 Report.
With Ben’s guiding hand, Signature has also successfully ventured into several other real estate related industries, including Signature Title Group, LLC, an attorney-owned and operated title insurance company, Signature School of Real Estate, LLC, a fully-accredited real estate licensing and educational school, Signature Insurance Advisors, LLC, a full-service insurance agency, and Signature Senior Placement, LLC, a senior community placement service.
Ben is a Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker, Real Estate Instructor and Property Manager and has earned the prestigious Graduate REALTOR® Institute (GRI)® designation. With unrivaled passion, a constant hunger for success, an unmatched support for his co-workers and an aggressive plan for growth, Ben is taking Signature in a very positive direction by focusing on the firm’s industry-first, “Agent Centric” culture that can be seen throughout the organization.
Ben is a loving husband and proud father and lives in Boynton Beach with his wife Jodi, two sons, Max and Brody, daughter, Sloane and the family’s two dogs, London and Aspen.
Originally from Philadelphia where she began her real estate career, Marci has lived and practiced real estate in South Florida for over 16 years.
With a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Marci brings a pedigree of experience in psychology and education to her work in real estate. This has helped her build a strong reputation for being a skilled negotiator, educate buyers and sellers, and effectively market her listings to secure the best possible outcome for her clients.
Satisfied clients refer Marci to their families and friends because of her caring nature, strong ethics, experience, and expertise. Marci prides herself in representing each of her clients with the same dedication, diligence, and transparency that she would give her own family member. While she specializes in luxury, gated communities she is just as comfortable navigating the way with first time buyers, providing help to find the perfect retirement community, or searching for that great distressed property for investors.
Marci has a daughter in Philadelphia and a son who lives in New York. When she is not out selling real estate you can find her content in her home at Addison Reserve with her husband, Bert, and her two dogs, Sophie and Izzy.
Marci is also a partner in Blue Water Resorts, an international resort development company.
Many of today’s most successful Real Estate practitioners bring to the table a lengthy history of productivity and achievement from prior business ventures. Expertise as a successful negotiator, adhering to detail and the ability to communicate clearly with her clients is what makes Wendy Pressner a truly valuable member of the Signature family.
Prior to relocating to South Florida from her native New York, Wendy was an accomplished Merchandise Manager in the fashion industry who traveled the world overseeing quality control and product marketing for major corporations from Mitsubishi to Lands’ End.
Her commitment to organizing, coordinating, fund raising, and chairing major events including the Maccabi Games, Jewish and Women’s Federation activities and Signature’s Give Back Program with ties to Habitat for Humanity has earned Wendy accolades and praise throughout Palm Beach County.
This proven ability to understand and focus on the needs and concerns of her clientele from different cultural, geographic and monetary backgrounds makes Wendy Pressner an outstanding choice for today’s South Florida buyer or seller.