Des Moines Real Estate Firm's Growth Continues With New Downtown Location

RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts is proud to announce the opening of its newest office at the Kaleidoscope at the HUB downtown. The HUB location opened its doors on May 21, bringing to four the number of offices RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts maintains in the Des Moines metro area.

RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts' new downtown site at 655 Walnut, Suite 225, is a prime example of real estate maxim "location, location, location"; over 15,000 people walk through the skywalk level of the Kaleidoscope every business day, opening up a whole new market for Des Moines-area real estate services.

"We're loving the way downtown's changing, and obviously that's going to be, in the next couple of years, something that's going to be creating our own market downtown, so it's going to be interesting to see," said Brett Fine, RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts Realtor.

RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts continues to grow in spite of the slight downturn in the Des Moines-area housing market. This growth can be attributed to the fact that the company provides its Realtors with services and marketing not found by the local traditional companies, including transaction coordination service, massive internet marketing exposure, a mentoring program called "100 Days of Greatness," and weekly in-house training programs that ensures that even through dips in the economy, a Realtor's business can continue to thrive.

In addition, RE/MAX has a national advertising program in place; through TV, radio, print and internet advertising, they send buyers and sellers to remax.com. With a national advertising budget of $50 million, RE/MAX advertises more than the seven largest real estate franchises combined. On top of all of this, RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts heavily advertises on TV, in print and on the internet to drive buyers and sellers to HomeConnectUSA.com, the local franchise's website. All of this advertising helps to sustain RE/MAX's agents through good economic times and bad.

RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts founder and owner Robb Spearman, CRS, ABR started Real Estate Concepts in October 2000 from his home as an independent brokerage. Spearman purchased the RE/MAX franchisee in June of 2004. At that time, Real Estate Concepts had one office location with 3 agents. Today, with the additional of the Kaleidoscope location, Spearman’s company now boasts nearly 60 agents in four locations: Beaverdale, Southside, West Des Moines and Downtown.

Spearman, the 2005 RE/MAX Broker-Owner of the year for Iowa and Nebraska, and more recently, he was among The Wall Street Journal's Top 200 Realtor's nationwide for transactions sold.

The local RE/MAX Franchise offices boasts the second-largest sales total in Polk, Dallas and Warren Counties combined, while separately RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts is ranked 4th in homes sold for the city of Des Moines. Its REO Sales Division is the leader in REO sales in Central Iowa, selling over 200 properties a year, and it's also the Broad Listing Broker for HUD properties for the State of Iowa. The company received the 2006 RE/MAX Spirit Award for Iowa and Nebraska.

RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts can be reached at 515-276-2872; the office's website can be found at www.HomeConnectUSA.com, where over 3,500 listings are available.

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About RE/MAX: RE/MAX International, Inc. was founded by Dave and Gail Liniger in Denver, CO in 1973. After thirty four years of continuous growth, RE/MAX has become a global real estate network, represented by over 120,000 sales associates in more than 65 countries around the world. Nearly all home listings in the country can be found at www.remax.com.

RE/MAX is home of The Real Estate Leaders®. The RE/MAX Concept combines maximum commissions and the best support services to attract the top agents and, increasing, the top newcomers, to real estate.

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