The phrase
"residential brokerage" refers to the business of buying and selling homes or properties where people live. It includes activities such as assisting clients in finding and purchasing a home, listing properties for sale, and negotiating deals between buyers and sellers.
Full definition
If you work in a
large residential brokerage, chances are good that your company operates a Web site to list properties or market its services or both.
Of nearly 1,100 brokers and owners who responded to the group's 1996 questionnaire, more than half said their real estate company failed to produce a profit last year from
residential brokerage business.
So to contrast our cover feature on the nation's
biggest residential brokerages, our «For Managers» section this month features the stories of salespeople who've started their own small companies.
The country's
biggest residential brokerages are benefiting from the continued health and stability of the real estate market, REALTOR ® Magazine's third annual «Top 100 Companies» survey shows.
«This acquisition provides us with a key opportunity to further expand our sales efforts to clients across Northwest Chicago and beyond,» says Fran Broude, president and COO of Coldwell
Banker Residential Brokerage in Chicago.
Jennifer Ames, a salesperson with Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage in Chicago, notes that this idea is often appealing because few home owners want to give up a whole bedroom for such activities these days.
HomeServices of America, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, is a the second - largest, full -
services residential brokerage firm and one of the largest providers of integrated real estate services in the U.S. HomeServices is comprised of many of the industry's most respected real estate firms located across the nation, specializing in all areas including brokerage, mortgage, title and escrow services, insurance and relocation.
«Our goal once again this year is to increase participation so that this survey is as accurate a reflection of who the real movers and shakers in the Canadian
residential brokerage industry are as possible.
The cash - strapped homebuyer isn't a challenge
for residential brokerage Flaherty Group Inc., REALTORS ®, in Kensington, Md..
The board of directors for the organization's
residential brokerage division voted unanimously to raise the dues REBNY levies on more than 13,000 brokers to drum up $ 1 million for the RLS push.
Rittenberg most recently served as the president of Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage on Long Island in New York with direct oversight of 13 real estate offices doing business throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties.
«Most prospects in other countries, particularly commercial investors, aren't fazed by what's going on with Iraq and situations like that,» says Tobias Kaiser, CIPS, broker - owner of Kaiser Associates Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a commercial and
residential brokerage with foreign clientele.
Earlier this year, KWCP was recognized as one the most
productive residential brokerage firms in the nation by REAL Trends magazine, and as one of the Top Power Brokers as named by RIS Media.
A subsidiary of Realogy Holdings Corp. (NYSE: RLGY), NRT owns and
operates residential brokerage offices nationwide under the brand names of Coldwell Banker ®, Sotheby's International Realty ®, The Corcoran Group ® and ZipRealty ®.
Such is life at B.J. Adams and Co. in Snowmass Village, Colo., one of the
top residential brokerages in the Roaring Fork Valley, which also includes the towns of Aspen, Basalt, and Carbondale.
On the consumer side, brokerages are finding that relocating buyers are much more cost - conscious and are eschewing
traditional residential brokerages and their broker - to - broker referral networks in favor of online discount operations.
Former owners of City Point Realty LLC, Dan Merrion, Brian Merrion and Libby Carlson will affiliate with Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage as brokers.
«We are all extremely proud of his remarkable accomplishments,» says Beth Styne, COO of Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage Greater Los Angeles.
Sussex & Reilly, a Chicago -
based residential brokerage company, has a story to tell that makes a strong case for the productivity value of PDAs.
«In recent weeks, year - end residential reports from a number of
leading residential brokerages projected that 6,500 condos would be delivered to the market this year, most of them part of a wave of high - end luxury construction.»
New CEO plans to grow Realogy by focusing on technology and data Realogy, the $ 5.8 - billion - dollar owner of
residential brokerages across the country, including Corcoran,...
The real estate franchise giant HFS Inc.'s announcement that it is looking to buy
more residential brokerage companies is not a threat to smaller companies.
This brings us to Bararsani v. Coldwell Banker, a 2012 class action lawsuit that accused Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage Co. of legally misclassifying some of its agents, reporting them as independent contractors while treating them as employees as defined by the California Labor Code.
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The dinner honors the nation's leading brokers who ranked among the Top
Residential Brokerage Leaders in RISMedia's Annual Power Broker Report & Survey.
Todd Hetherington, CRS ®, GRI, isn't a revolutionary out to
move residential brokerage away from its traditional reliance on independent contractors.
«The reality is that those people are so protective of their jobs,» said Sandra Deering, broker of record for Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage Southern California.
Donna Olshan started her eponymous
boutique residential brokerage in 1980, when it looked as if New York City real estate, if it ever did come back from the economic doldrums of the decade before, would certainly tarry.
Town Residential founder Andrew Heiberger (left) and Core founder Shaun Osher (right) Manhattan's
residential brokerage heavyweights are seeing the benefits of a recovering market, it seems.
As branch vice president for Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage since 2007, DeSotle, ABR ®, SFR, SRES ®, dispenses her own brand of support and guidance for two New Jersey offices (Franklin Lakes and Ringwood) and the approximately 65 practitioners she oversees.
«We offer an exclusive Re / Max Commercial brokerage in addition to an already
successful residential brokerage, providing Calgary and its surrounding areas with all of their real estate needs.