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2 THE COURIER-JOURNAL Classified Advertising Home Showcase, Saturday, July 24, 1999 Your Guide to Real Estate Listings Use the map below to locate Real Estate listings published in this Home Showcase section. REMAX named best in real estate by Worth Magazine readers Oldham County including LaGrange, Crestwood, PeWee Valley, Goshen 0 Southern Indiana including Jeffersonville, Clarksville, New Albany, The JulyAugust issue of Worth Magazine (circulation of 522,000) debuts the results of its first "Readers Choice" survey which determines from the user's point of view the top performers of a wide range of financial services. Four-thousand subscribers returned confidential questionnaires and named REMAX as "Best in the Real Estate Broker" category. "What a distinguished honor," said Daryl Jesperson, REMAX president. "This is a wonderful tribute to the 55,000 REMAX affiliates around the world who diligently work to make every real estate transaction a pleasant experience for their clients.

There is no greater reward than satisfied customers." There are 15 REMAX offices in the Louisville Metro area with more than 300 sales associates. Each REMAX office is independently operated. Floyds Knobs jT "SHELBYVILLE Realtors prepare internet boom Shelby County including Simpsonville sneibyvme 1 Spencer County including Fisherville, Taylorsville Lake Area Are today's real estate agents ready for the future? Take a look at a new survey from the National Association of Realtors, the industry's largest trade organization, and see for yourself. Nearly nine out of 10 Realtors own or lease a computer, 62 percent use e-mail and the Internet for business and nearly three out of 10 have a Web page, according to survey respondents. More significant, perhaps, is that more than half of NAR members has generated business from the Internet.

In addition, agents and brokers who use a computer earn $22,600 more than those who don't, according to "The 1998 National Association of Realtors Member Profile." According to NAR President Sharon Millett, other NAR data has shown that consumers using the Internet to shop for homes rose from 2 percent in 1995 to 23 percent currently. Nelson County including Cox's Creek, Bardstown FQ Bullitt County including MI. Washington, Shepherdsville, Hillview, Brooks MOM WMMT Index "This upward trend in the growing use of technology means more and more home buyers are doing their homework on-line, and real estate professionals are playing a greater role in interpreting information and providing transactional services," Millett said. Other results from the NAR survey showed a quarter of the group's members have achieved at least a bachelor's degree, while 18 percent have done some graduate work or have finished a graduate degree. Nearly half of brokers have a bachelor's, and 23 percent have done at least some graduate work an 8-percentage-point increase since 1978.

Eighty-seven percent of Realtors have some college education. According to the survey, the typical Realtor is 52 years old, works 45 hours a week, has been in the business for 13 years and earned a gross income of $43,500 in 1998. The median gross income for a broker was $63,100, while the typical real estate agent earned $30,300. Fifty-four percent of ajl members are female. The results were based on random surveys of 40,000 NAR members.

The response rate was just over 19 percent with a margin of error of about 1 percentage point. Inman News Feature Turn-of-the-century home to be sold at absolute auction A prominent Highlands home over looking Cherokee Park will be sold at absolute auction on August 3, 1 999 at 6 p.m. The home, located at 25 1 7 Cherokee Parkway, was built in 1910 by a promising Louisville attorney named David Baird. The gardens were designed by Cecil Fraser, formerly of Olmsted Associates, the landscape and design firm who designed Cherokee Park. Baird died suddenly in 1911 from appendicitis.

His family remained in the home until the 1940'sand then the property was sold to the Clifford Rollins family. The home is currently owned by Gina and Gry Brown who purchased it in 1992. This impressive square-foot mission-style home has five bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths with two whirlpool tubs. It has a 29-foot gallery hall, a 35-foot by 15-foot family room and a large dining room. The covered front porch has a swing and ceiling fans.

The house will be open for previewing on Tuesday, July 27 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, August 1 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WOODMONT is a carefully planned community, designed to provide new homes on spacious lots while maintaining its beautiful setting of mature trees, a meandering stream gently rolling hillsides. 13 acres of open space Planned swim tennis club Nature trail through woods New Homes from 12 outstanding registered custom builders.

Realty news 2 Homearama builders feature technological advances 4 Solatubes add sunlight to dark places in homes 6 Cool rooms evenly by using simple techniques 7 Water vapor causes mildew during construction 12 Adding phone lines could he done by amateurs 13 Mortgage Rate Chart 16 About This Section Home Showcase is a weekly publication sponsored and edited by The Courier-Journal Advertising Department. Questions and comments are welcome. Information for this section is gathered from a variety of sources. If you have questions, call C-J Home Showcase Editor Mandy Wolf at 582-4807. To advertise, call 582-2622.

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