ABR, NAHREP, CIPS, AHWD, Real Estate International Specialist

Mabél Guzmán (ABR, CIPS, AHWD), is a Cuban immigrant who came to the United States as a child and raised in Chicago, where she is a REALTOR® for more than 21 years. She is the NAR 2020 Vice-Chair for the Insurance Committee and Chair for the Business Insurance Work Group and Government Affairs Director for NAHREP Chicago North.

Mabél is a broker at Coldwell Banker in Chicago, where she specializes in residential real estate, works with investors on rehabbed properties focused in under-served communities and first time home buyers and sellers.

Economic development, housing advocacy, and public policy are Mabél’s passions. At the national level, she has been a member of NAR’s Board of Directors on and off since 2009 and has previously served on the Executive Committee. On behalf of the National Association of REALTORS®, Mabél testified before the House Financial Services Committee in 2019 about the reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program.

In 2020 she served as Vice President of Association Affairs of the National Association of REALTORS®, where she collaborated with six Committee Liaisons, and had purview of 53 committees, councils, forums, advisory groups and boards.

In 2014 she served as Chair of the Conventional Financing and Policy Committee, where she also testified on behalf of NAR’s more than one million members before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Urban Affairs and Banking on “Inequality and Opportunity in the Housing Market.”

At the state level, Mabél served on the Illinois REALTORS® Board of Directors from 2009 to 2011. In 2014, 2015, and 2018 she received the Illinois REALTORS® President’s Medallion for Outstanding Service. In 2020 received the Distinguished Service Award from Illinois Realtors; the last Distinguished Service Award was given by Illinois Realtors in 2013. In November 2021 she represented Illinois Realtors and testified before the Housing Committee regarding American Rescue Plan funding and using these funds to spur housing development and redevelopment of abandoned properties.

Mabél is also a member of the Chicago Association of REALTORS® and served as its Treasurer in 2009 and President in 2011. In 2012, the Chicago Association of REALTORS® named Mabél their REALTOR® of the Year. In 2016, she received the Community Service Award and in 2021 She received the Realtor Achievement Award for her work in the industry.

Mabél cares deeply about community service and has frequently partnered with Habitat for Humanity, One Hope United, and the First United Methodist Homeless Ministry called Hope’s Table. She is a longtime member of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) and was recognized in 2012 with a Community Service Award. She was named 2009 Member of the Year by the Women’s Council of REALTORS® (WCR) of Chicago.