RE/MAX NORTHERN ILLINOIS NAMES TOP 10 COMMERCIAL AGENTS AND TEAMS FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2005

RE/MAX Realtors from Glen Ellyn and Chicago were tops in commercial real estate sales among the 3,800 agents in the RE/MAX Northern Illinois network during the first quarter of 2005.

Gus Trantham of RE/MAX Suburban, Glen Ellyn, led all individual agents.  Connie Abels of RE/MAX Northcoast, in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood led the top ranked team.  A team involves the combined efforts of two or more licensed agents, while an individual agent is the sole licensed contributor to his or her production.
Rankings are based on commissions earned.

The other members of the RE/MAX Commercial Top 10 list of individual agents for the first quarter of 2005 are:

No. 2 – George Zoellick, RE/MAX South Suburban, Flossmoor;
No. 3 – Laura Bauske, RE/MAX County Line, Burr Ridge;
No. 4 – Michael Scola, RE/MAX Partners, Berwyn;
No. 5 – Ben Henrikson, RE/MAX Professionals West, Elgin;
No. 6 – Paul Fasold, RE/MAX Signature, Chicago;
No. 7 – John Bearrows, RE/MAX of Rock Valley East, Rochelle;
No. 8 – Ron Block, RE/MAX Landview, Chicago;
No. 9 – Ron Bol, RE/MAX Team 2000,  Orland Park;
No. 10 -- Ken Koreba, RE/MAX Plaza, McHenry.

Rounding out the list of RE/MAX Top 10 commercial teams for the first three months of the year are:

No. 2 – Anthony Bellino, RE/MAX Tri-County, Algonquin;
No. 3 – Ned Malley, RE/MAX Ultimate, Worth;
No. 4 – Joe Gillespie, RE/MAX Central, Roselle;
No. 5 – Georgia Colovos, RE/MAX Preferred Properties, Addison;
No. 6 – James Schaid, RE/MAX Plaza, McHenry;
No. 7 – Rosemary West, RE/MAX Realty of Joliet;
No. 8 – Al Snyder, RE/MAX Partners, Berwyn;
No. 9 – Al Vallejo, RE/MAX Team 2000, Orland Park;
No. 10 – John Rosengren, RE/MAX Sauk Valley, Sterling.

“Success in commercial real estate requires a special set of skills, and these agents certainly have them.  They are helping RE/MAX expand its presence in all aspects of commercial real estate across our region,” said Jim Merrion, regional director of RE/MAX Northern Illinois. 

RE/MAX offices lead in real estate sales across Northern Illinois and have been number one in residential sales in the Chicago metropolitan area since 1989.  In 2004, RE/MAX Northern Illinois had closed sales volume of more than $17.1 billion.  Sales statistics for the past decade show that one out of four homes sold in Chicagoland has been listed by RE/MAX.

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois network consists of 3,800 associates and 155 individually owned and operated offices providing residential, relocation and commercial real estate services throughout the northern one-third of Illinois.  The Northern Illinois region is part of the RE/MAX International network, a global real estate system operating in 55 countries.  It consists of more than 5,500 independently owned offices that engage 107,000 member sales associates.

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