Steve Yates was born and raised in Southern California and earned a business degree from the University of California. After college, because of his great interest in sports, he was employed as the west coast regional sales manager in the Sporting Goods industry. After a few years of very successful sales, he was appointed National Sales manager for a German sport optical company. As a result, he was able to learn conversational German.

As he traveled for business, Mr. Yates discovered the Southeastern United States and moved to Florida. He began his Real Estate career on the island of Sanibel/Captiva. After an extremely successful sales period, he was recruited by Prudential Realty and offered a position in the Flagship office in Fort Lauderdale. He soon earned many Top Agent Awards and was the recipient of the Prudential Chairman’s Circle Award, which honors the top agents in the United States.

Steve remained there until business was seriously interrupted by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and he moved to the community he had long admired: The Landings on Skidaway Island, where he is presently employed by The Landings Company.