Stephens elected 2008 Realtor of the Year by the Texas Association of REALTORS®
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Stephens is licensed as a real estate broker in Texas, license #0209888. He serves as the Governing Person for Stephens Properties (deRaat Stephens Residential Properties, LLC. d/b/a Stephens Properties), TREC License #0551239, URL www.StephensProperties.com. He has also been licensed as a real estate broker in Massachusetts and Georgia. He also serves as the Governing Person for RealtySnap, LLC. (TREC License #0594583) URL www.MyRealtySnap.com, and is an Expert Witness dealing with real estate practices and procedures.

He was appointed by the Texas Real Estate Commission for a six-year term to the Texas Real Estate Broker-Lawyer Committee in 1993 and to the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending’s Mortgage Brokerage Advisory Committee for a three-year term in 2005, then reappointed for another three-years in 2008. George's REALTOR^® activities include serving on numerous committees at both the local, state, and national levels. He served as Chairman of the 26,000+ member, Houston Association of REALTORS^® ("H.A.R.") in 1998 and Chairman of the nearly 98,000 member Texas Association of REALTORS^® ("T.A.R.") in 2003.

The consumer resource column, "Ask George & Chuck," (co-authored with Charles J. Jacobus, J.D.) currently appears in the Houston Chronicle and TexasRealEstate.com. Its web address is www.AskGeorge.net. The column has been published online by Inman News Features, RealtyTimes.com, TexasRealEstate.com, AustinHomeSearch.com, and eRealty.com. In 1997 he received the TAR Educator of the Year award for his years teaching CORE real estate (including Contracts) and mandatory continuing education courses. In 1998 H.A.R. recognized George’s teaching and technological contributions to the industry by naming its computer-equipped training facility the "George C. Stephens Technology Training Center."

George and Chuck co-author the book Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency, now in its 5th edition..