Springfield agents perform well in Real Trends/The Wall Street Journal listing

The four local agents – Tom Rieken of Murney Associates, Ethel Curbow of Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realtors, Sherrie Loveland of Murney, and John Heitz of Re/Max House of Brokers – were the only Missouri agents to appear on the individual transaction-sides listing. In each real estate transaction, there are two sides – the buyer and seller – that can be represented by a real estate agent.

Each agent was chosen based on the numbers of real estate transactions posted in 2005. For the agents/transaction sides listing, individual agents were allowed to have no more than one full-time and one part-time assistant working with them, Loveland said, and larger teams appeared on the team listing.

Here’s how the local Realtors placed on the list:

• No. 28 Tom Rieken, Murney Associates, 206.5 transaction sides

• No. 30 Ethel Curbow, Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realtors, 206 transaction sides

• No. 42 Sherrie Loveland, Murney Associates, 182 transaction sides

• No. 50 John Heitz, Re/Max House of Brokers, 175 transaction sides

See SBJ’s Dec. 4 issue for more on this story and other real estate news.