LaGrange, IL – Prime Property Partners, a prominent real estate company serving the Western Suburbs, has joined Chicago-based Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® (LeadingRE), Dean Rouso announced today.

Prime Property Partners joins Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^®, a global relocation network comprised of nearly 700 of the best-known top producing local and regional real estate firms, with 5,500 offices and 170,000 sales associates in the U.S. and 38 other countries.  Collectively, these firms sell 1.2 million homes annually in the U.S. valued at nearly $370 billion, which is more than that of any national brand or franchise. 

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® is the country’s largest network of residential real estate firms, and network affiliates are widely recognized as the premier providers of quality residential real estate and relocation services.  Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® also excels in the upper-end market, with $70 billion in sales of homes valued over $1 million.

As an affiliate of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^®, Prime Property Partners can assist individuals purchasing or selling property in virtually any community in the U.S. or abroad with services including real estate assistance, comprehensive destination orientation programs, household goods move management and more. The membership also enables Prime Property Partners to assist with corporate relocation accounts through RELO Direct^® LeadingRE’s third party relocation company.

Rouso notes that selection as an affiliate of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® network represents another step in the development of the firm and its ability to meet the real estate needs of the LaGrange-Western Springs area.

Prime Property Partners, with 10 of sales associates, was selected for Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® membership only after meeting the network’s high standards.

“We are delighted that Prime Property Partners has joined Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^®,” commented President and CEO of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® Network Services Ruth Ann Pepple. “Their selection was based on the company’s outstanding reputation, as well as its demonstrated ability to deliver the same high quality service and reliability as our other affiliates. This level of service is the foundation of our network and is the basis for our longevity and success as one of the industry’s leading providers of real estate and relocation services.”

Prime Property Partners’ listings will now be featured on Leading Real Estate Companies of the World Premier relocation website at www.ReloHomeSearch.com which has about 500,000 unique world wide visitors per month.

Prime Property Partners is located at 114 Calendar Avenue, Suite A, LaGrange and has been serving LaGrange-Western Springs and the Chicagoland Western Suburbs since August 2007.

About Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^®

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® (www.LeadingRE.com) is a global real estate network comprised of nearly 700 of the best-known local and regional real estate firms. With more than 5,500 offices and 170,000 sales associates in the United States and 38 countries abroad, LeadingRE affiliates sell nearly $370 billion in home sales representing 1.2 million transactions annually. Six of the United States’ top 10 real estate firms are LeadingRE affiliates, and our members are the Number One firms in 44% of the top 88 markets in the United States, representing a powerful force in American real estate.

Prime Property Partners officially opened its doors to the public on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007. Launched by veteran REALTOR^® Dean Rouso, ABR, GRI, CRS and Certified Negotiator, Prime Property Partners’ unique and progressive consumer-based approach toward buying and selling real estate makes it the only firm of its kind in the western suburbs. It is also the first new real estate company to debut in La Grange in 10 years.  With such an exciting new concept, it’s no surprise that Prime Property Partners is catching people’s attention. 

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Over the past several years, Real Estate has become a major topic of conversation in every workplace and social arena.  You just can’t get away from someone saying something about real estate!  You see it on the news, watch it on the many “Sell, Flip and Fix This House” style programs, read about it in the newspaper headlines or homes sections, listen to it on every radio program, hear about it from Ben Bernanki, our newest Fed Chairman…continue to hear about it from our former Fed Chairman, Greenspan and discuss it at all the cocktail parties, local parks and even at church ……. just about anywhere and everywhere!  And if you Google “real estate”, you get 413 million sites, blogs, articles and opinions……getting close to ½ billion!

This is totally understandable.  Real estate continues to be for most of us, our single largest investment. 

Something has changed dramatically……today we are hearing over and over again that national news about Real Estate can have very limited value. Real Estate is not like buying Google or Dell.  Whether you buy stock in these companies while living in Texas, Florida or LaGrange Park is irrelevant. The buy or sell prices don’t vary by the area you live in. 

Certainly today, Real Estate is local!  We have been reminded that the old “LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION” concept is an important key, still today.  Many of the stories with “expert opinions”, average prices, inventory numbers, declines, gains etc. are national or regional generalizations.  Even if we simply look at State of Illinois statistics, the numbers are not representative of our area. For example, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors website, the most recent report of State of Illinois median home prices for the 3^rd quarter of 2007 was $209,000 with an average of $272,632.  Even if we distill this to just Cook county, median home prices were $276,000.

Though this information is interesting, it obviously does not give us an accurate picture our local marketplace.  Again, “real estate is really, really local”. 

During my term as President of the Realtor Association of West-South Suburban Chicagoland (now Mainstreet Organization of Realtors), I insisted that our Realtor association distribute monthly and quarterly and year to date sales statistics by community to our Realtor Members.  As you can imagine, in a very short time, this section of our Realtor association website has become the most popular with our 14,000+ members.

Unfortunately, for the consumer, it isn’t quite as easy to obtain these statistics by community or neighborhood.  You don’t belong to an association that will provide statistics just on your neighborhood though certainly, you are interested and in my opinion, are entitled.

Because I feel so strongly that you are entitled to all the information, whether or not you are buying or selling, my company will compile and publish data by community using the same Multiple Listing Service data that the Realtors and their associations have access to.  What will provided to you in this new monthly publication “The Prime Times” will be real estate market data for the Western Cook communities including La grange, La Grange Park, Brookfield, Countryside, Indian Head Park, Willow Springs, Riverside, Countryside, Western Springs and more. 

In addition, there will be relevant and timely articles on financing (and refinancing), home improvement strategies and values, and other interesting topics pertaining to one of your biggest investments…..your home.

I hope that you will take the time to take a look at our new newspaper style monthly publication and I also hope it will be valuable to you by providing local information that has not been available before.  Please feel free to email me at primetimes@primeanytime.com with any suggestions on topics or comments about this new publication.  I look forward to your suggestions.

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