Photo courtesy of Peabody & Smith.

A real estate firm serving northern and central New Hampshire, along with the Lakes Region, has a new face on its team.

Paty Ciotto recently joined Peabody & Smith Realty’s Meredith office after moving back to New Hampshire from Brazil. According to the announcement from Peabody & Smith, she and her husband Johan ran a beachfront bed and breakfast in Brazil for a decade. Ciotto was born in São Paulo, Brazil. After meeting her husband Johan in Boston in 2001, the couple moved to Woodsville and lived there for five years until she and Johan decided to move to Brazil to be closer to family.

Peabody & Smith’s southern offices had a party for Ciotto recently, as she just became a U.S. citizen and recently had her naturalization ceremony.