Jeff Owens Named Managing Broker of New Prestige Cherry Creek Office In Denver

April 12, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(For more information contact Sean A. McAleavey at 303/693-4653)

Jeff Owens Named Managing Broker of New
Prestige Cherry Creek Office

   DENVER -- Jeff Owens, a top-producing Realtor with Prestige Real Estate Group, was named Managing Broker of the firms new Cherry Creek office at 3033 East 1st
Avenue in Denver.

   Owens started his real estate career in 1995 as an on-site sales manager for a builder/developer in Colorado Springs. He moved back to Denver in 1997 and joined Coldwell Banker Moore & Company, earning membership in the companys prestigious Presidents Club. Owens joined Prestige as a broker/owner in 2000, servicing clients and customers throughout metro Denver with special consideration for central and urban neighborhoods.

   Owens is a member of the South Metro Denver Realtor Association and holds the Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI), and Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designations. He earned a BS degree in Political Science from Colorado State University.

   The new office provides a wonderful platform for Prestige agents that are heavily-vested in the upscale urban neighborhoods that surround Cherry Creek," Owens said. More than a dozen top-producing agents have already committed to moving to the new space and we are receiving calls from brokers at competing firms that are very interested in joining us at the Cherry Creek location."

   The new Cherry Creek office will occupy over 5,600-square-feet of prime office
space on the fifth floor of the Bank of Cherry Creek building across from the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Upon completion, the office will accommodate between 40 and 50 top-producing brokers and their teams and will feature the latest tools and technology available in the real estate industry.

   A top administrative team, headed by office manager Peg Schlachter, former lead administrator at Prestiges premier office on East Panorama Circle, has already been assembled. Tennant finish is already underway and Prestige plans on a Grand Opening that will coincide with the 2002 Cherry Creek Arts Festival in July.        

Prestige Real Estate Group is agent-owned and operates from seven offices throughout metro Denver, Castle Rock, Conifer, and Evergreen. The company posted nearly $600 million in total sales volume for 2001. Sales volume for 2002 is projected to exceed $850 million. Prestige is committed to the use of advanced technology and superior customer service.

For more information on Prestige Real Estate Group, contact Leeann Iacino at 303/799-9898. Additional information, including more than 40,000 listings throughout metro Denver, plus thousands more in northern Colorado, selected high country resorts, and in Colorado Springs, is available on the Prestige worldwide web site at www.prestigerealtygroup.com.

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