Coral Gables Gazette, Real Estate, January 4-10,2001
Based on the latest Market Share Report published
by the Multiple Listing Service, Coconut Grove Realty ranks No. 2 in
year-to-date sales for a region of Miami Dade County designated "Area
41".
This section of Country encompasses Coconut Grove,
Coral Gables, South Miami, The Roads, and Brickell - an area that includes
some of the highest prices residential real estate in Florida.
Noted Broker Randie Koroglu of Coconut Grove Realty,
"I consider it quite a coup that my single office of 27 realtors,
has generated the second highest sales in this prime, in-town area.
Furthermore, we came in second with an office with almost ten times
the number of associates." Added Koroglu, "It's equally not
worthy that Coconut Grove Realty has outperformed Coldwell Banker, Arvida,
and Prudential, all of which have close to 200 associates affiliated
with their local offices."
"Our office's collective performance vis-á-vis
that of our behemoth competitors only bares out my contention that it's
experience and personalized service that generate results for the clients,
not size. All of our Realtors are career professionals who bring to
the table ten to two years of experience in the Miami-Dade market,"
said Koroglu. "Additionally, because we are a close knit group,
we all work as a team."
In fact, we sell 61% of our listings within our
office. That means when a client works with one Realtor, he or she benefits
from the cumulative knowledge of 27 real estate professionals."
Koroglu added, "This unparalleled level of
expertise gets bottom-line results, and that is why our clients start
with us and stay with us literally for decades."
Coral Gables Gazette, Real Estate, November 15-21, 2000
Coconut Grove Realty turns a milestone
This month, Coconut Grove Realty is celebrating its
75th birthday. That's a milestone for any company. In real estate circles,
it is even more significant because regional and national chains have
gobbled the vast majority of independent brokerages up. In fact, at
75, Coconut Grove Realty is one of the oldest companies of its kind
in Miami-Dade County as well as one of the few remaining independent
brokerages in South Florida.
Founded in 1925 by the Kent family, the company
was purchased by Hakki and Randie Koroglu in 1978. Hakki Koroglu, president
of the brokerage, is a full time architect who heads up Koroglu &
Associates, Architects. Randie Koroglu, CRB, CRS, is the firm's vice
president and broker of record, with responsibility for daily operations,
management and marketing.
Located in the heart of Coconut Grove, the company
is as unique today as it was when it first opened its doors in response
to the development boom of the 1920's. Billed as a "boutique"
brokerage, Randie Koroglu is dedicated to keeping the company small,
specialized and independent. To do so, her firm boasts equal expertise
in residential and commercial property, personalized service unavailable
at the franchise offices of regional or national chains.
Today, operating out of single office, Coconut Grove
Realty posts more than $100 million in sales annually. As the name indicates,
Koroglu firm specializes in properties located in Coconut Grove and
its environs, from Cutler Ridge, Pinecrest, South Miami, Coral Gables
and Key Biscayne, South Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Aventura and Golden
Beach.
Miami Today, Real Estate, December 7, 2000
75-years-old firm has weathered ups, downs of the Grove
As vice president of Coconut Grove Realty, 3121 Commodore
Plaza, Randie Koroglu presides over the daily operations of one of Miami-Dade's
oldest real estate firms.
"We're now in our 75th year and doing better than
ever, said Ms. Koroglu a Coconut Grove civic leader."
The company was founded by the Kent family in 1925, She
said. Little is known about the original owners, but quite a bit can
be deducted from the area's history. According to local historians,
1925 was the gritty height of the South Florida land boom. "It
was the most surreal year imaginable."
"Land was put on the market at $1,290 and up for a single lot."
The bottom began to fall out of the market by mid-summer,
the historians write, and on Sept. 17, 1926 a massive hurricane with
winds reaching 125 miles an hour delivered the coup de grace.
The economic devastation was followed in 1929 by
the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. Somehow
the infant Coconut Grove Realty weathered all these economic storms.
Full
Story - Download .PDF
|
Coconut Grove Realty