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Colorado-based Metro
Brokers Real Estate, Inc. announces 12 new real estate offices opened in
2008 and 5 more new office locations have
been approved in January of 2009
January 29, 2009 - Denver, CO. Some 33 years ago,
Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. Interest rates were as high as 20%, inflation
as high as 16% and unemployment hovered around 10% with the DOW at 800. Add to that the energy crisis, the Iran
Hostage ordeal and the cold war, which had reached epic heights with Russia. The more things change, the more things stay
the same. The good news was the first
Star Wars movie was released. Disco and
Saturday Night live was a hit. At that same time in Colorado, six innovative commercial real
estate brokers started up a new kind of real estate company. They were simply tired of surrendering all
their hard-earned commissions to large, management-run real estate
organizations. They wanted to be independent, yet unified under a single brand,
sharing marketing and business expenses. Metro Brokers was born.
Like coal turning to diamonds, during times of great pressure,
beautiful products are the end result.
Metro Brokers was started during what many may recall as some of the
worst times ever in American history. One
of the remaining six founding members, Larry Carr, describes what it was like
back then. "The Denver
market was just terrible," says Carr.
Yet, 33 years later Metro Brokers membership is close to 1700 brokers
and associates strong, a long way from its humble beginning of six commercial
real estate brokers. And once again, Metro
Brokers is growing.
Even given the enormity of issues facing the real estate industry,
Metro Brokers finds itself on a growth pattern. The year 2008 found Metro
Brokers approving and opening 12 new locations throughout the state of Colorado. "2008 was one of the fastest office growth
patterns in recent years," says Barb Figal,
Membership Coordinator for Metro Brokers. These locations included Boulder County,
Breckenridge, Brighton Professionals, Denver Core, Dillon, Fort
Collins, Littleton Town Centre, Longmont,
Longmont Downtown, Loveland, Stapleton Plaza,
and Sterling. There is no question that at Metro Brokers, history
is repeating itself and the growth spurt continues with approved applications
for January of 2009 in Conifer, Brighton, Westminster,
Boulder and Colorado Springs.
"Metro Brokers continues to be an unsung Real Estate success story
in the state of Colorado,"
says Maria Cook, Executive Director
for Metro Brokers. "Our combined brokerages
have held the number two market share position in Denver against larger franchises with far
more brokers in their organizations." As
it was then and is now, it is one of the largest 100% broker-owned
organizations in the entire country.
Although classified as a franchise, Metro Brokers has really operated as
a marketing and trademark association for its brokers. Instead of percentage-based franchise fee off
the top of all commissions, each Metro Broker pays only a flat monthly fee of
$80.00. These fees pay for television
and internet marketing as well as a myriad of technology tools. But don't take my word for it-I personally
invite you to visit MetroBrokersOnline.com, MetroBrokersTV.com,
MetroBrokersMobile.com and JoinMetroBrokers.com".
"When times are fat," says Kirby Smith,
Metro Brokers 2009 president elect, "anybody can make it. But we are back to
the basics, back to being fundamental business people and Metro Brokers makes
as much sense today as it did 33 years ago".
About Metro Brokers
Real Estate
Metro Brokers Real Estate, Inc. is an association of independent
real estate brokers who specialize in Colorado
residential, commercial and investment properties. Metro Brokers' 90 office
location network of 1,700 highly caring, experienced real estate professionals
have been helping buyers and sellers make the most of their real estate transactions
since 1976, Unlike most other real estate companies, Metro Brokers, Inc. is wholly
owned and controlled by its brokers. For more information please visit http://www.MetroBrokersTV.com
Posted on January 30, 2009 13:31:01 by  Mark.Eibner
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