In 2022, the state of Tennessee saw numerous opportunities for growth and development. Recognizing this, Julia Hurley of the Just Homes Group with Realty Executives Associates decided to start a podcast called Connect the Knox. Her goal was to connect Knoxville to the rest of the nation.
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Realty Executives Associates has opened a downtown office that captures the edgy energy of Knoxville’s center city.
Realtors Emily Stevens and Bailey Rose are the founders/owners of Realty Executives Downtown, located at 323 Union Ave. Both are eager to connect with the downtown community.
“We’ve got three huge windows, said Stevens. “We’re going to showcase an artist each month and on First Friday, we’ll host an open house with the artist.” In September, for instance, they collaborated with the Knoxville History Center to display photos of Knoxville then and now.
Rose and Stevens use the space as a hybrid office for a business they own with Emilie Stooksbury – New2Knox.com and Moving2Knox.com.
Continue readingBy: Sandra Clark | Our Town Leaders, West Knoxville
Charitable giving has continued to rise among Realtor associations, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors. The Community Aid and Real Estate Report – CARE – offers insight into the monetary and volunteer contributions of NAR members, broker-owners and association executives or multiple listing service staff.
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Realty Executives International is excited to announce the 2020 recipients of the Realty ExcellenceⓇ Market Leader awards. Eleven Realty Executives brokerages were honored for their commitment to growth, expansion, and productivity in their local communities.
The annual Market Leader award is given to franchisees with 100+ agents, or 20-plus percent market share (based on transactions in the MLS). This year’s winners include:
2020 Realty Executives Market Leaders
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Realty Executives Associates, of Knoxville, TN, is proud to celebrate over 40 years of service and growth in 2021. Throughout the decades, Realty Executives Associates has solidified itself as the #1 brokerage of East Tennessee, through its dedication to global resources mixed with a local approach.
Founded in 1977 by R. Vance Burkey, the brokerage brought the Realty Executives industry’s original 100 percent commission model to Knoxville and has now grown to over 700 agents, 13 offices and over 50 employees. Burkey founded the company on the basis of putting agents and their clients first, innovating and cultivating a culture that prides itself on community and providing an unparalleled level of support to not only its agents, but clients as well.
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Realty Executives Associates is pleased to announce it has expanded its regional footprint with the addition of the Dwight Price Group, based in Maryville, TN. The newly renovated offices of the Dwight Price Group are located at 537 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Having worked in the Foothills area for 20 years and serving in Blount, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Anderson and Sevier Counties, Dwight Price, his daughter Sara and the entire group knows the local real estate market and is ready to lend their expertise to home buyers and sellers. Since 1980, the Dwight Price Group has provided Maryville and surrounding areas in Tennessee with the full real estate experience, offering a full complement of services and specialists to help homeowners buy and sell their properties.
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Realty Executives Associates, the prominent and market leader brokerage in Knoxville, is celebrating 40 years with Realty Executives successfully serving the residential needs of the East Tennessee community. Led by President Steve Fogarty and his partners, Pat McGill, Tony Rodgers, Greg Cates and Susan Varner, Realty Executives Associates has seen decades of growth and continues to be one of the most productive and professional brokerages of Realty Executives and in its market.
Realty Executives Associates Main Street in Sweetwater, TN held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony in Sweetwater on January 20. A large crowd of family, local government, business and community leaders and the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce came out for the event. Owner Scott Wilson and his wife Julia have been joined by numerous well-known local real estate professionals in this new venture. The newest Realty executives Associates office is located at 207 N. Main Street. The building was once a real estate office in the late 1800s. Continue reading
RISMedia just announced the top 1,000 Power Broker firms in the U.S., and seven Realty Executives brokerages ranked among the best of the best. RISMedia’s Top 500 Power Broker Report based on 2016 sales volume was released earlier this spring in Real Estate magazine. The Top 1,000 Power Broker report ranks firms by both 2016 transactions and sales volume. In addition to the rankings, the report paints a clear picture of how the leading brokerages across the country are both setting and adjusting to trends, while gearing up for a low-inventory environment. Continue reading
Realty Executives Associates, with more than 550 real estate experts serving all of east Tennessee, has been named Realty Executives International’s Brokerage of the Month for May 2017.
Founded in 1979 by Vance Burkey, the brokerage is led by Steve Fogarty (President), Tony Rodgers (Broker/Owner), Pat McGill (Broker/Owner) and Greg Cates (CFO). Realty Executives Associates has led the east Tennessee market for nearly four decades and has once again ranked amongst the industry’s best, gaining national recognition in the 2017 REAL Trends 500 and in RISMedia’s 29th Annual Power Broker Report. The prestigious reports list the top 500 largest residential real estate companies in the country, ranking them by closed transaction sides and total closed sales volume for 2016. Continue reading