{"id":377312,"date":"2026-08-21T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:19:08","slug":"douglas-elliman-adds-andrea-pelaez-and-brian-partie-to-st-petersburg-sarasota-offices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377312\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Elliman adds Andrea Pelaez and Brian Partie to St. Petersburg, Sarasota offices\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real estate agents Andrea Pelaez and Brian Partie\u00a0joined\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantaagentmagazine.com\/2025\/06\/03\/elliman-international-expansion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Elliman\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0St. Petersburg\u00a0and Sarasota offices, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously,\u00a0Pelaez worked at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/11\/premier-sothebys-new-agents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier Sotheby\u2019s International Realty\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0St. Petersburg\u00a0office,\u00a0while Partie worked at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/2025\/10\/17\/making-moves-ariel-hernandez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engel &amp; V\u00f6lkers\u2019<\/a>\u00a0Suncoast\u00a0office\u00a0and\u00a0served greater Naples and Sarasota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pelaez entered real estate in 2022.\u00a0Before that, she\u00a0spent 16 years as an elementary school teacher in Hillsborough County.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Partie, meanwhile,\u00a0has been in real\u00a0estate\u00a0his entire career.\u00a0He\u00a0currently\u00a0serves on the Florida REALTORS\u00ae\u00a0board of directors\u00a0and is the 2026 chair of public policy for the REALTOR\u00ae\u00a0Association of Sarasota and Manatee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a third-generation Tampa native and now St. Petersburg local, I bring a lifelong understanding of the Tampa Bay area along with firsthand experience as a homeowner, investor and renovator,\u201d Pelaez said.\u00a0\u201cWhat really attracted me to Douglas Elliman was the combination of a boutique, relationship-driven feel with the reach and resources of a major luxury brand.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Partie\u00a0added,\u00a0\u201cChoosing Douglas Elliman was a decision I gave a great deal of thought and consideration to. Their commanding presence in the greater Sarasota market, combined with their intentional approach to where and how they\u00a0operate\u00a0across the U.S. and Canada,\u00a0ultimately made\u00a0it clear this was the right move.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate agents Andrea Pelaez and Brian Partie\u00a0joined\u00a0Douglas Elliman\u2019s\u00a0St. Petersburg\u00a0and Sarasota offices, respectively.\u00a0 Previously,\u00a0Pelaez worked at\u00a0Premier Sotheby\u2019s International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[151494,151495,13214,1626,33147,413,33847,875,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-377312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-andrea-pelaez","tag-brian-partie","tag-douglas-elliman","tag-florida-real-estate","tag-real-estate-news","tag-sarasota","tag-sc","tag-south-florida-real-estate","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}