Nolan C. (Gus) Galloway Jr.

​Born in Asheboro, North Carolina in 1937 and known as Nolan for his entire elementary and high school period picking up the nickname at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina where he spent his first two years of college from 1955 through 1957 transferring to the University of South Carolina in 1957 and graduating with a BS in Business Administration in 1959.

Gus’ initial business career was in pharmaceutical sales first with Burroughs Welcome for two years and later with Roche Laboratories for approximately 7 years. After giving the priesthood serious consideration Gus entered the real estate business as an associate with Charlie Rogers Realty in 1970 buying Charlie out in 1975 and changing the name of the business to Gus Galloway Realty.

Gus Galloway Realty was a successful general real estate firm but Gus gradually made the change to an exclusively commercial brokerage company and has continued that specialization becoming a CCIM designee of The Commercial Real Estate Council of the National Association of Realtors in 1988 and earning SIOR designation in the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors in 1991; the first broker in Marion County to complete both requirements.

Gus served as president of the Ocala Multiple Listing Service in 1978 was Realtor of the year in 1978 becoming President of the Ocala / Marion County Board of Realtors in 1979. Along the way Gus served as a director on the Florida Association of Realtors and as District Vice President of the Florida CCIM Chapter. 

Gus has represented a variety of clients serving as a single agent broker for buyers and sellers as well as landlords and tenants.

Gus’s hobbies include quail hunting, fitness, reading and his eleven grandchildren spending time, when business allows, in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife, Mary Carolyn, of 35 years.