Mabél Guzmán

Mabél Guzmán has been a realtor for twenty-one years. She is a broker at Coldwell Banker in Chicago, where she specializes in residential real estate, rehabbing properties, and working with investors. Economic development, housing advocacy, and public policy are Mabél’s passions. She has analytical skills that clients leverage when making real estate decisions. The data she provides and detailed explanations are to benefit clients, and she identifies trends that could be benefits or concerns.

She is very active in the industry and serves as the NAR 2021 Vice-Chair for the Insurance Committee and Chair for the Business Insurance Work Group and as Government Affairs Director for NAHREP Chicago North. 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 fifty-three committees, councils, forums, advisory groups, and boards.

She also testified in 2019 before the House Financial Services Committee on Flood Insurance, on its reauthorization and reform of the flood insurance program. 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 she received the Illinois Realtors Distinguished Service Award.

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.

Mabél cares deeply about community service and has frequently partnered with Habitat for Humanity, to help rebuild the Gulf Coast on five separate trips, serves on the First United Methodist Homeless Ministry called Hope’s Table, where more than one hundred and twenty homeless citizens receive, food, clothing, and recently covid-19 vaccines.