New England Real Estate Academy provides relevant, convenient, highly-acclaimed real estate classes for real estate brokers and salespersons. We offer pre license training courses, continuing education courses for license renewal, and professional development courses for sales and management development. Continuing Education is available in a high-energy classroom format or in state-of-the-art online multi-media video format. Our instructors bring practical, real-world experiences, along with advanced adult learning methodologies. We custom design courses to meet the needs of the ever-evolving real estate industry.
Meet Our Team
Owner / Director of Education
Deb has been involved in real estate in many capacities since childhood. In 1998 she received her license and used it as a tool in real estate investment. In 2008 she moved into working the rental market, rehabs, construction and income properties. She decided to combine her property management/landlord experience as a leasing specialist; work as a realtor in all phases of and offer her services as an instructor with New England Real Estate Academy.
Special Areas of Interest: Buying/selling / renting with single families, multi-families, condominiums and manufactured homes; my commercial/business / marketing experiences as an entrepreneur; my designations as a Short Sale professional, broker opinion appraiser and accredited stager .
Memberships: Member, National Association of Realtors, Massachusetts Association of Realtors, South Shore Realtors,Member, Women’s Council of Realtors, Member, Women’s Council of Realtors, Member,Business First Network, Member, Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, Hanson Food Pantry, a 501C (3) non-profit – Treasurer
Licenses: Massachusetts and Rhode Island Real Estate Broker; Licensed Massachusetts and Rhode Island Real Estate Instructor
Teaching Philosophy: The learning experience should be an exciting part of everyone’s real estate career. It should spark a desire to continue to learn, to make it your own and to enjoy every moment!
Founder / Consultant
Jeanne Barreta has over 40 years public and private sector real estate experience in Sales, Leasing and Development. She has owned and operated a multi–office residential real estate company and been a District Director for Prudential Commercial Real Estate. Her public sector experience includes 6 years with the FDIC in Boston specializing in the sale of owed real estate and the restructuring and sale of loan portfolios. She was also the Section Chief for the Appraisal and Finance Unit in Franklin, MA. In her various capacities, training and consulting has been a significant part of her activities. She was adjunct faculty at Northeastern University for 4 years teaching real estate investment courses in the Building and Technology Department. Jeanne was on the faculty of the CCIM institute as a Senior Instructor from 2005 – 2015 where she was given her the opportunity to teach across the country and internationally. Jeanne founded New England Real Estate Academy in 2010 to be able to provide online as well as traditional real estate training and consulting.
Education & Designations:
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Emmanuel College
- Alignor Negotiations Training
- Decker Communication Intensive
- Extensive Training in adult learning and curriculum development
- Certified “DISC” facilitator
- Certified “Adventures in Attitudes”, facilitator
- Public Action for the Arts and Entertainment Muse Award
- Huey MVP Award – Harbor OneU
Senior Instructor
Ed is a licensed real estate instructor and broker in Massachusetts. He has owned and managed Century 21 Professional Real Estate, Hyannis.
His development experience includes:
- Developed “Fishermans Village” a 42 unit condominium complex
- Owned, managed and converted 24 apartment condos.
- Developer of Holly Ridge, the first green area golf subdivision on Cape Cod.
Education: Cape Cod Community College, Associates in Art