RE/MAX Showcase of Lake County, Ill., Honored for Charitable Efforts and Superior Use of Technology

May 10, 2010 - PRLog -- RE/MAX Showcase of Lake County, Ill., with offices in Gurnee, Lake Forest, Long Grove and Waukegan, recently received dual honors from the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network.

It was one of the five most successful RE/MAX firms in northern Illinois in raising funds for the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) last year and received the CMN Outstanding Citizen Award.  RE/MAX is the official real estate sponsor of CMN.  In 2009, RE/MAX Showcase raised $10,100 for CMN, all of which went to benefit Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago.    

A second honor bestowed on RE/MAX Showcase and its broker/owner, Piero Orsi, was the annual RE/MAX Technology Award, which goes to those within the RE/MAX Northern Illinois network whose impressive use of technology has helped maximize agent and office productivity and client service.

RE/MAX Showcase was one of two firms of two firms to win the award this year for their superior utilization of the illinoisproperty.com Web site system, which generates thousands property inquiries from buyers and sellers who visit the RE/MAX regional Web site.

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RE/MAX is the leader in northern Illinois real estate sales and has been number one in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market since 1989. In 2009, the RE/MAX network in northern Illinois closed more than $6 billion in sales.

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois network consists of 2,500 associates and 121 individually owned and operated RE/MAX offices that provide residential, relocation and commercial real estate services throughout the northern one-third of Illinois. The network’s Web sites, www.illinoisproperty.com and www.remax.com, are two of the most popular real estate Web sites in northern Illinois and nationwide, respectively, according to Compete.com, Comscore and Hitwise, which are online intelligence services.

RE/MAX Northern Illinois is part of RE/MAX International, a global real estate organization with 6,500 independently owned offices and 93,000 member sales associates in 78 nations.