achieve realty: Achieve Realty Breaks Into Top 10 on "The List"
- 04/24/09 01:51 PM
On April 24, 2009, the Pittsburgh Business Times published their list entitled "Largest Pittsburgh-Area Residential Real Estate Firms." This list reflects the performance results for 2008 as reported to the PBT by residential real estate brokers throughout Greater Pittsburgh. Achieve Realty has something to celebrate. For the first time, in its 5 year history, Achieve Realty has cracked the top 10, rising to number 9 on The List. Last year, Achieve was eleventh. This distinction marks a continuation of an upward trend for Achieve Realty, which has risen up The List steadily over the years. Kristen Stokes, President of Achieve (4 comments)
achieve realty: Dolly Nicely Joins Achieve Realty In Pittsburgh, PA
- 04/01/09 02:08 PM
Achieve Realty, Inc. is proud to announce that Dolly Nicely has joined the firm. A successful professional Realtor with genuine client empathy. That best describes Dolly Nicely and her approach to real estate. “An advocate for my clients”, is Dolly’s self-described style and business model. Her primary goal is to ensure that clients receive exceptional service and a positive experience. She wants clients to know that she is working in their best interest, and will always be thorough and considerate towards that end. Your Agent Your Advocate is her go-to-business strategy and message, and has served her clients well for (0 comments)
achieve realty: Achieve Realty Launches Career Center
- 12/30/08 02:37 PM
Wexford, PA, Every year brings new challenges to real estate agents, and staying ahead of the curve is critically important to agents who desire to meet those challenges. To help its’ sales professionals reach even greater results, Achieve Realty, Inc. announced the launch of a comprehensive online career center exclusively for its agents.”In order to recruit and retain high-quality agents in this fast-changing market, broker/owners need to differentiate themselves and one way we’ve chosen to do so is to offer first-class online training for our agents,” says Kristen Stokes, President of Achieve Realty, Inc. “The real estate industry is changing fast (1 comments)
achieve realty: What Is An Administrative Fee?
- 12/29/08 02:51 PM
The “Administrative Fee” (aka Brokerage Fee, Technology Fee, ABC Fee) is a flat dollar fee that real estate brokers charge to buyers and sellers above and beyond the real estate commission. The charge ranges from $100 to $395. This fee has been implemented only during the last several years but already, consumers and real estate sales associates have become complacent with it. If consumers refuse to pay it, many brokers collect the fee from the sales associate. Many brokers instruct their agents to explain why this fee is charged. Here's one explanation: "The Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission has increased the time (4 comments)
achieve realty: Introducing Lawton Stokes
- 12/29/08 02:02 PM
This site is designed to be a reference for people interested in real estate in greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My name is Lawton Stokes and I am a real estate attorney working in Wexford, Pennsylvania, which is a suburb 20 miles North of downtown Pittsburgh. My wife Kristen Stokes and I own a real estate brokerage called Achieve Realty and a title insurance agency called Allegheny Settlement Company. We are also partners in the law firm Antol & Stokes, P.C. I welcome any questions or concerns you may have about real estate transactions in greater Pittsburgh. Thanks for visiting this site! (3 comments)