Harold Crye Named Chairman of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
Crye and his business partner founded Crye-Leike in Memphis in 1977 when Crye was just 31 years old. The company quickly became that city’s largest firm, expanded to become the #1 firm in Nashville and Chattnooga as well, and has since grown to be the fourth largest firm in the entire country, with 125 offices, 1,200 management and staff and 4,000 sales associates in eight states throughout the Mid-South.
Crye welcomes the opportunity to provide leadership as chairman. “I believe strongly in the independent business model. By their nature, real estate people are entrepreneurs,” Crye comments, “and since real estate is a local business, independence allows us to deploy our resources in the local marketplace to benefit our clients and our associates. LeadingRE complements that local strength with connections to the best professionals around the world, as well as a rich menu of benefits that include an industry-leading client referral network, tremendous marketing support, online resources, and an outstanding luxury marketing program, Luxury Portfolio Fine Property Collection™.”
Joining the LeadingRE board that Harold Crye now chairs is Mike Green from Harcourts International LTD in Australia and New Zealand, who also serves as chairman of the newly-formed International Advisory Board. Other LeadingRE board members include Vice Chairman William Watson, Jr., Watson Realty Corp.; Treasurer Robert Sibcy, Sibcy-Cline Realtors; Secretary Stephen Baird, Baird & Warner; Dan Elsea, Real Estate One, Inc.; Michael Patrick Lyon, Lyon Real Estate; Michael Robinson, Weichert Realtors; Brenda Shipplett, Long & Foster Real Estate; Arthur Sterbcow, Latter and Blum, Inc.; Allen Tate, Allen Tate Company; Ron Peltier, HomeServices of America; and former Chairmen Michael Saunders, Michael Saunders & Company. Retiring from the board is Robert Ganly of Knight Frank Ganly Walters in Dublin, Ireland.
“We are so privileged to have the brightest minds in the business on our board, now led by Harold Crye, who is a visionary in his own right,” Pam O’Connor, LeadingRE president and CEO notes. “Harold has made amazing strides in his career and will bring his superb business sense and his passion for this organization to bear in assuring LeadingRE’s continued growth and prominence in the industry.”
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Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (www.LeadingRE.com) is a global real estate network comprised of nearly 700 of the best-known local and regional real estate firms. With more than 5,000 offices and 145,000 sales associates in the United States and 35 countries abroad, LeadingRE affiliates sell over $400 billion in home sales representing more than 1.3 million transactions annually, outselling any national franchise and leading the nation in the sales of $1 million-plus homes. Seven of the United States’ top 10 real estate firms are LeadingRE affiliates.