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Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS Wins Primacy Relocation Recognition

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS is one of only three real estate firms in the State of Iowa to achieve Prime Select Broker status with Primacy Relocation. The broker is the only firm in eastern Iowa to achieve this recognition.

Ruhl&Ruhl received this distinction based on our agent’s ability to price properties within 5% of their ultimate selling price year over year, said Veronica Pianca, Vice President, Relocation & Business Development for Ruhl&Ruhl.

“We have been successful meeting this goal over the lifetime of our relationship with Primacy and specifically in the past three years when the market has been more volatile,” Pianca said.

In addition to meeting pricing targets, this award is also based on service evaluations from Primacy’s corporate clients and transferees, as well as communication between Ruhl&Ruhl’s Relocation Department and Primacy Relocation.

Ruhl&Ruhl joins two firms in Des Moines, Coldwell Banker Mid America Group and Prudential First Realty, as the only three firms in the State of Iowa to achieve these remarkable results.

Primacy Relocation is a full-service relocation provider, addressing both U.S. based and global needs for companies around the world.  Primacy offers the full range of global relocation and assignment management services, providing turnkey support in home sales, destination services, household goods move management, program administration, and international assignment support.  In addition to its Memphis headquarters Primacy has offices in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Omaha, Sacramento and Washington D.C., as well as Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, London, Montreal, Munich, Neuchatel, Singapore and Zurich.  Primacy is online (in eight languages) at www.primacy.com

A family-owned company since 1862, Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS annually sells approximately 3,400 homes in eastern Iowa, western Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin.  Caroline Ruhl is the President and owner of Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS, and is the fourth generation of the Ruhl family to lead the residential brokerage and home services company.  Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, the company has 250 sales associates and 60 employees based in sales offices located in Bettendorf, Bellevue, Clinton, Coralville, Davenport, DeWitt, Dubuque, Maquoketa, and Muscatine, in Iowa, and in Moline, Illinois.  In addition to residential sales, Ruhl&Ruhl offers services in relocation, new home sales, farm sales, property management, senior services, and mortgage services through 1862 Mortgage.  For more information on Ruhl&Ruhl, visit their website at www.RuhlHomes.com

 Ruhl&Ruhl received this distinction based on their agent’s ability to price properties within 5% of their ultimate selling price year over year. In addition to meeting pricing targets, this award is also based on service evaluations from Primacy’s corporate clients and transferees, as well as communication between Ruhl&Ruhl’s Relocation Department and Primacy Relocation.

Primacy Relocation is a full-service relocation provider, addressing both U.S. based and global needs for companies around the world. Primacy is online at www.Primacy.com.

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Mobile Applications link buyers, agents

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ruhl&Ruhl is featured in the Quad City Business Journal for the Mobile Ruhl applications! To download Mobile Ruhl click here

Mobile applications link buyers, agents

By Doug Schorpp

New Web-based mobile application systems are up and running for two Quad-City real estate firms, giving agents and customers access to all information about properties on their mobile phones. Mel Foster Co. and Ruhl&Ruhl Realtors both announced the launch of their applications in late July.

Melfoster-co.mobi

Kris Ratigan, marketing director for Mel Foster, said the company’s Web site is optimized to work fast on all mobile devices. It is available nationwide, making it useful to companies and individuals relocating to the area, she said. The Web site is www.melfoster-co.mobi. “This new application is…designed to allow real estate clients and prospects to contact our agents and 10 area offices as well as view all area residential listings in eastern Iowa and western Illinois from their mobile devices,” Ratigan said. She said the Web site has been gaining momentum as buyers and sellers catch on. The consumer can search by address, even a partial address, city, state, ZIP code, or MLS number. “This is an exciting time as technology lends new ways to connect with people,” Ratigan said.

Mobile Ruhl

Ruhl&Ruhl’s new application, Mobile Ruhl, allows users to search real-time property information, display listings on a map and has GPS capabilities. Consumers can search almost every listing in eastern Iowa, western Illinois, and southwestern Wisconsin, whether listed by Ruhl or another company. The GPS technology pinpoints the location of the user and delivers information. Users also can search by price, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as address, city and ZIP code. The application can be downloaded by going to www.Ruhlhomes.com and clicking on the “Mobile Ruhl” icon. “This new technology gives our clients the benefit of having all real estate listings right at their fingertips, whether at home, in the office or even in the car,” Ruhl&Ruhl company president Caroline Ruhl said.

 Survey Shows changing habits

                An online survey of respondents ages 25-59 done for Smarter Agent, the company that worked with Ruhl&Ruhl, showed the availability of a mobile real estate application had a significant impact on loyalty and perception of a specific real estate agent or broker.

Among the findings:

  • 49 percent said they would be more inclined to use a real estate agent to list their home who offered a mobile application as part of a marketing plan to attract buyers
  • 39 percent said they would choose a real estate agent who offered a mobile application to search for real estate for free
  • 90 percent are aware that they can download applications to their cell phones

Article provided by: Quad-City Business Journal

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