Chicago Real Estate Volume Up 14 Percent – Top Producers Volume Up 21 Percent
@Properties, Coldwell Banker and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices show gains in 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 22, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Chicago Agent magazine released the numbers and ranks the top 20 agents and brokerage offices in Chicagoland’s six counties.
Chicagoland’s top five residential real estate offices closed over $4,550,000,000 in 2014, showing an increase of more than 14% over 2013. @properties offices led the brokerages once again with offices in the number one and two positions, both showing significant gains from 2013 while Coldwell Banker Lincoln Park was third with modest gains over last year. The merging of offices for Koenig/Rubloff, now called Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group, gave them a gain of over 42% moving into the fourth spot. Ranking fifth is Jameson/Sotheby’s with transactions totals nearing $700,000,000, down 12% from 2013.
The top five agents also showed an impressive 21% increase in total sales from 2013 to 2014. Jeff Lowe of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group leading was the No. 1 agent in 2014, with over $187,000,000 in sales, a 35% gain from 2013. Real Data showed seven agents that posted more than $100,000,000 in sales in 2014 including Jennifer Ames, Mario Greco, Dawn McKenna, Jane Lee, Emily Sachs Wong and Chezi Rafaeli.
Real Data reports the top 20 agents and brokerages for Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. All rankings include buy and sell side figures, including number of transactions and dollars closed. Also noted are the stats for the top sales for each county.
Real Data includes information gathered from January 2014 through December 2014. All information was obtained, analyzed and provided by LeapRE-Chicago’s Real Estate Data Experts.
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