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Auction Biz Heats Up as Market Stagnates - The Memphis Daily News
By Sarah Baker
VOL. 126 | NO. 26 | Tuesday, February 08, 2011
For the most part, Memphis has always been a traditional real estate town with the standard broker-seller relationship.
But that doesn't always work, and oftentimes sellers need the process to happen quicker than the conventional market will allow, said Bill Caller, broker with Crye-Leike Commercial.
Real estate auctions force the market to react. If there's a buyer out there, the seller gains some leverage by setting the date, time and terms. And because it's a cash sale, there's no negotiation, the property is sold as is and the buyer pays the commission instead of the seller in the form of a buyer's premium.
"The auction is the next wave," Caller said. "Five years ago if you would have told people in the real estate business that foreclosures and short sales would be standard ord...
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Crye-Leike, REALTORS Excited To Be Expanding Into Knoxville Housing Market
The company's first Knoxville branch, its new Farragut office, will be located at 731 Campbell Station Road.
"After 34 years of being in business, Crye-Leike is proud to be opening its doors in Knoxville for the very first time," said Managing Broker Melonie Carideo. "Our President and CEO Harold Crye has been wanting to break into the market for over 15 years now. Our new office in Farragut is already all fired up with a half-dozen agents and we're currently conducting interviews looking to grow our agent count."
Crye-Leike's Farragut office will host a grand opening that's being planned for late March or early April. The office's Managing Broker Melonie Carideo, Office Administrator Cassie Riconoscuito,...
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Crye-Leike Awards Broker Becky Meagher With Company?s Highest Honor
Nashville, TN, - After 24 years as a licensed Realtor, Broker Becky Meagher has earned another great accomplishment to add to her long, successful career.
Becky, who works with buyers and sellers based out of Crye-Leike, REALTORS Green Hills office, recently received one of the company's highest honors. She was inducted into Crye-Leike's elite Circle of Excellence Club and earned the title as Vice President at the company's 2011 Kick-Off meeting held at the Airport Marriott in Nashville.
"I am honored to be named into the Crye-Leike Circle of Excellence," said Becky. "It was wonderful to be personally honored by Harold Crye and Dick Leike at our annual Kick-Off meeting this year. They both are the epitome of what you want in company leaders having a keen business sense and caring hearts. I will wear my 5 diamond pin proudly as a reminder of this magnificent moment in my career which is definitely one of my greatest successes yet...
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Coleman-Etter, Fontaine Merges with Crye-Leike - The Memphis Daily News
By Sarah Baker
VOL. 126 | NO. 24 | Friday, February 04, 2011
Crye-Leike Realtors Inc. continues to expand its standing as the largest real estate firm in the Mid-South area by merging with Memphis-based Coleman-Etter, Fontaine Realtors.
The decision was finalized Friday, and Fontaine Taylor, president and broker of the company, made the announcement Tuesday to her team. Taylor will remain a broker, but will now be a vice president of Crye-Leike and will continue to sell.
"She's going to sell and manage because her people are coming with us," said Dick Leike, president of Crye-Leike. "I don't know how many are going to come but those that come, I want them to feel as comfortable as they possibly can."
Founded in 1951, Coleman-Etter is among the oldest residential real estate firms in the Memphis area, with about 30 agents. Crye-Leike is the sixth largest firm...
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Coleman-Etter, Fontaine Realtors is merging into Crye-Leike Realtors - The Commercial Appeal -Memphis
By Tom Bailey Jr.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Posted February 2, 2011 at 5:36 p.m., updated February 2, 2011 at 10:51 p.m.
The venerable Coleman-Etter, Fontaine Realtors is merging into the city's largest agency, Crye-Leike Realtors.
"I know it's harder and harder for the small companies to be able to compete with the big ones," said broker Fontaine Taylor, who reached the deal Friday with Dick Leike and announced it to her staff and agents Tuesday morning.
"I wanted to give my agents the best tools they could have," Taylor said. "I have every confidence in Crye-Leike and Dick Leike and (Crye-Leike general manager Steve Brown). ... I felt like it was a good fit."
Majorie Coleman and Fran Etter, among the first women admitted to the local Realtors association, founded the firm in 1951.
Taylor joined them in 1981 and boug...
Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company founded in Memphis in 1977. Today it is ranked #4 in the nation and the largest real estate company serving markets in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi. Crye-Leike has a network of more than 2,800+ licensed sales associates, 600+ staff members and over 130+ branch and franchise offices located throughout a seven state region of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Crye-Leike also has a franchise location in Puerto Rico.
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