All people However The Chiefs: 4 Kansas Metropolis Actual Property Groups Be part of Actual
Becoming a member of the fast-moving, tech-forward brokerage are Group O’Dell Actual Property Group, The Andy Blake Group, Applebaum KC Houses and Lengthy Actual Property, the entire higher Kansas Metropolis metropolitan space.
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The Actual Brokerage picked up 4 groups in a single market to start December — and finish the yr — on a quite important excessive word, Inman realized in a Dec. 5 press launch. Becoming a member of the fast-moving, tech-forward brokerage are Group O’Dell Actual Property Group, The Andy Blake Group, Applebaum KC Houses and Lengthy Actual Property, the entire higher Kansas Metropolis metropolitan space.
That is one more signal that Actual’s progress continues on a powerful upward trajectory, regardless of the actual property market’s present behavior of doing the alternative. Actual stated that, collectively, the 4 groups have bought 9,000 properties for a mixed worth of $2.5 billion.
“By coordinating their collective transfer, [the teams] have reworked Actual right into a market chief in Kansas Metropolis in a single day and are making a transparent assertion that Actual presents the perfect platform for them and different brokers to succeed,” stated Sharran Srivatsaa, president of Actual, within the press launch. “We couldn’t be extra happy to welcome every of them and their groups to the Actual household and have them symbolize the Actual model.”
The seven-member Group O’Dell Real Estate Team is family-driven, consisting of husband and spouse Dan and Maria and their son, Mike O’Dell. The 30-year crew has traded $1.5 billion in actual property since 1995 and in 2022, touchdown at No.5 on Kansas Metropolis Enterprise Journal’s annual rating of actual property brokers for promoting greater than 260 properties price $117 million.
The Andy Blake Group was 9 spots behind the O’Dells on the identical checklist for its 250 dwelling gross sales totaling $85 million. The grass-roots marketer constructed his nine-agent crew on “word-of-mouth” advertising and marketing to the tune of $500 million bought since 2013.
Blake stated in an announcement that Actual’s cloud brokerage mannequin “is the place the business goes” and appeals particularly to prime producers.
“Along with becoming a member of forces with three Kansas Metropolis groups who’ve constructed a status for doing enterprise the appropriate method, being part of Actual supplies a possibility to be round 1000’s of like-minded individuals who take satisfaction of their enterprise,” Blake stated.
Applebaum KC Homes can also be family-run. Spouses Jeremy and Liron Applebaum began their crew in 2012, Jeremy having been licensed since 1996 and the son of a builder. Kansas Metropolis Enterprise Journal ranked them at No. 34 on $50 million in gross sales.
At one time part of the O’Dells’ crew, Tony Lengthy created Long Real Estate in 2013 and has 18 years of expertise within the business. With 4 brokers, the crew bought 130 properties in 2022, price $48 million, and 1,100 since 2006, inserting them within the prime 1 p.c of their area.
Along with its foray into Kansas Metropolis, the brokerage just lately made inroads in California when the John Pope-led crew at Legends Real Estate in Northern California joined Actual in October. Based mostly in Folsom, and lively all through the Golden State capital of Sacramento, John Pope has been promoting properties for 45 years and can carry a singular stage of tenure to the fast-growing, tech-forward residential model.
At Inman Connect Las Vegas in August 2023, Actual CEO and founder Tamir Poleg declared his firm “is on hearth.” Nothing has cooled since. In October it started working in its fiftieth state, Nebraska, and introduced a slew of promoting and enterprise initiatives from the stage of its annual firm gathering, RISE.
The corporate rolled out three new options for its brokers and groups, an Agent Itemizing Toolkit, a advertising and marketing asset administration system and artistic design expertise, by means of a partnership with Luxurious Presence, the L.A.-based advertising and marketing expertise firm. On prime of these agent instruments, Actual began a series of agent and staff benefits for health insurance and long-term wealth accumulation.
“Actual’s imaginative and prescient is a world during which homebuying and promoting is a straightforward and satisfying expertise for everybody,” stated Srivatsaa in October. “Our new positioning represents this imaginative and prescient in addition to our tradition of neighborhood, and it comes at a time when Actual has distinguished itself because the fastest-growing publicly traded brokerage agency for 2 years operating and the one one to proceed to develop profitability and actually innovate throughout a difficult and contracting actual property market.”
Poleg, together with Chief Expertise Officer Pritesh Damani and Srivatsaa, have been collectively awarded Inman’s 2023 Innovator Award at Inman Connect Las Vegas in August, “for his or her roles in guiding the corporate by means of uneven financial waters this yr.”
