John Rebchook is a former Rocky Mountain News reporter with more than 30 years of experience in writing and communications... RE/MAX Professionals,the fastest growing RE/MAX franchise in the world, is expanding into Denver’s urban market with the purchase of RE/MAX City Horizons. RE/MAX City Horizons is an agency with one of the largest share of the Highland neighborhood northwest of downtown. the south metropolitan-based real estate company ranked as the fastest growing RE/MAX franchise in the world, has expanded further into the Denver city market with the acquisition of RE/MAX City Horizons, an agency with one of the largest shares of the popular Highlands area west of downtown.
RE/MAX Horizons, serves Highland, West Highland, Lo-Hi, Berkeley, LoDo and surrounding neighborhoods, from an office at 3870 Tennyson St. It has 22 agents who produced $91 million in sales last week. The office will be renamed as RE/MAX Professionals City Properties on April 1, said Leeann Iacino, president of RE/MAX Professionals. The acquisition price was not released.
“This is a very promising venture for our company – one that positions us serve some of the neighborhoods that are benefitting from the continued growing popularity of central Denver,” Iacino said, announcing the acquisition today. RE/MAX Professionals currently has a Cherry Creek office serving downtown and neighborhoods east of the city center.
Owners staying
RE/MAX City Horizons owners Dan Jimenez and Jeff Laws will remain as partners in the venture with RE/MAX Professionals’ ownership group. RE/MAX City Horizons currently posts 36% of residential sales in the two Highlands zip-code areas; one of the largest shares of any real estate company serving those neighborhoods.
RE/MAX Professionals was consolidated in May 2009 from Prestige Real Estate Group and RE/MAX Professionals. The new acquisition brings to eight the number of RE/MAX Professionals offices serving metropolitan Denver, including offices in the DTC/I-25 corridor; Castle Pines/Castle Rock; Cherry Creek; Highland; three offices serving south Jefferson County in Lakewood, Southwest Plaza and Ken Caryl Ranch; and a flagship office in Highlands Ranch at 1745 Shea Center Drive. RE/MAX Professionals is on the web at PrestigiousDenverHomes.com.
Contact John Rebchook at JRCHOOK@gmail.com or 303-945-6865.
