- Glanzer Realty sold its historic downtown Newberry office to State Farm agent Ruz Ogra after 17 years, citing the shift to online real estate services.
- Ruz Ogra will open Newberry’s first State Farm office in the building and continue community programs like the Little Free Pantry started by Glanzer Realty.
After 17 years in downtown Newberry, the Glanzer Realty team said a bittersweet goodbye to its historic office on Tuesday after finalizing the sale of it to a local State Farm agent.
The commercial and residential realty company’s founder Joy Glanzer told Mainstreet that owning and stewarding the building at 190 NW 266th St. had been a dream of hers since she first moved to Newberry over 50 years ago.
Glanzer, 71, a former Newberry Planning and Zoning Board chair and co-founder of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, said the large space had become too much to maintain and more than she and her daughter and business partner, Hillary Santos, needed as the housing market slowed and shifted increasingly online…