About Prudential Americana Group REALTORS®: Corporate Facts
Prudential Americana Group, REALTORS® is an independently owned and operated member of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates and is the 8th largest in the company's national network of 677 franchises.Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® is the largest real estate company in Las Vegas with approximately 1,200 sales executives with 6,457 home closings and $2.2 billion in sales. The company was founded in 1979 and has sold more than $60 billion in Las Vegas real estate since that time.
2008 was an exciting year for Prudential Americana Group REALTORS®. The company moved its headquarters into a new building in Southeast Las Vegas. It now employs approximately 56 full-time staff members that support sales executives and facilitate thousands of contracts per year for Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® and its clients.
2008 was also a growth year in closed transactions for the company. Despite the downturn in the local real estate market, it continued to add talented sales executives and pursue merger opportunities with other offices and franchises. Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® also announced a new strategic relationship with Shelter Mortgage in 2008. One of the nation's most trusted mortgage companies, Shelter Mortgage provides Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® customers with the best lending options available.
2009 has proven to be one of Prudential Americana Group's best yet. The company started its 30th anniversary year by launching its new website, www.americanagroup.com, making its online presence the largest and most comprehensive in Nevada. This coincided with a new Green campaign in which the company launched a paperless transaction system, saving thousands of pages of paper in the first year alone.
Also in 2009, Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® merged with and acquired multiple high-volume sales teams and offices including the McGarey Group, The Mullen Group and Windermere Summerlin. In constant pursuit of bringing new real estate executives to the market, it has also launched the Americana Training Program, an intensive pre-licensing school that provides 80 hours of classroom time to help new REALTORS® prepare for the state licensing exams. For more information on Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® new and upcoming programs, visit the website at www.americanagroup.com or call the corporate office at 702-796-7777.
2009 Year in Review- The company posted approximately 9,000 transactions, which equates to approximately 4,500 total homes purchased and sold. The Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® posted approximately 95,000 transaction sides, which was made up of approximately half sales sides and half listings sold sides. “Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® was involved in more than one out of every ten home sales in Las Vegas last year, which is far more than any of our closest competitors,” said Mark Stark, CEO of the company. “Our units closed increased nearly 50 percent over 2008, when we posted 5,969 total listings sold and buyer sales.”
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Company Milestones
1979 Jack Woodcock, Mark Miscevic and Steve Schneider establish Americana Group REALTOS® in
Las Vegas, Nevada
1983 Company joins the Better Homes & Garden Franchise.
1999 Americana becomes a Prudential Real Estate Affiliate and Prudential's largest affiliate, Prudential California
Realty, joins forces with Prudential Americana Group, REALTORS®
Realty, joins forces with Prudential Americana Group, REALTORS®
1995 Mark Stark becomes Vice President and CEO
2004 Mark Stark acquires 100% ownership of the company, Company reaches 1000+ affiliated licensees.
2007 Prudential Americana Group closes 4,860 transactions for a total of $2.2 Billion in sales volume
2008 Americana closes 6,461 units an d$1,789,782,321 in Sales Volume.
2009 Americana Group REALTORS® continues to expant adding a new office in Summerlin
Company Achievements
- Prudential Americana Group REALTORS® has been in the Top 10 most productive companies in the Prudential network of more than 600 throughout North America since 2006. Its most recent ranking was #8 in 2008.
- In 2008, its Sahara office was recognized as the #2 office in North America for residential real estate units sold. Its green Valley office was #5 and its Southwest office was #10 among thousands of offices throughout the Prudential network.
- Four of the company's teams were among the Top 10 in North America in 2008. The McCollough Group was the #1 real estate team among all teams in the Prudential Network for Residential units sold. William Jorgensen, LLC was #3 and the Steve Howell Team had the 4th largest number of units sold.
- The Shapiro & Sher Group was recognized as having the 3rd largest gross commission income in 2008 among all teams in the Prudential network.
- The Americana Charitable Foundation was Prudential's fourth largest contributor to Prudential's Sunshine Kids Foundation, which provides assistance to children with cancer. The company and its employees donated $104,000 to the organization in 2008. In 2009 Americana Group REALTORS® is recognized as having the #1 Sales Branch and #1 Sales Team in the Prudential Real Estate network nation wide.
- In 2009 Americana Group REALTORS® won 7 of the Top Ten Sales Teams slots in the Prudential Real Estate network nation wide.
- The new Americana Group REALTORS® Training Program was launched at the begining of the 2009 year.
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