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Wexford, PA, September 16, 2007 - Every year brings new challenges to real estate agents, and staying ahead of the curve is critically important to agents who desire to meet those challenges. To help its’ sales professionals reach even greater results, Achieve Realty, Inc. announced today the launch of a comprehensive online career center exclusively for its agents.

"In order to recruit and retain high-quality agents in this fast-changing market, broker/owners need to differentiate themselves and one way we’ve chosen to do so is to offer first-class online training for our agents," says Kristen Stokes, President of Achieve Realty, Inc. "The real estate industry is changing fast and this change is creating lots of opportunities. Our continued success depends upon how we take advantage of those opportunities."

The Career Center includes the following educational and training services for agents:

• Individual web-based business planning tool for each agent with weekly marketing to-do lists and accountability tracking;
• Over 100 hours of skills-based classes covering such topics as experienced agent training; negotiating, prospecting, farming, team strategy and internet marketing;
• The largest online real estate mentoring library of money-making strategies delivered by over 200 of the industry’s top producers;
• Access to online licensing and continuing education (CE) classes;
• Online Access to a wide range of real estate designations classes such as ABR, ASR, CNS and AHS;
• Special reports covering such topics as customer acquisition, profitability, bundled services, business planning and technology;
• Additional resources including: daily industry news, blogs from industry experts, online dictionary and career newsletters; and
• New online courses and content added every week.

This project has been in the works for many months with the industry leader in career development services, RealtyU, a California company. "We are excited to work with a company as progressive as Achieve Realty, "says Bill Shue, President of RealtyU. "This company has made the commitment to invest in the future of its agents and to create the best trained agents in its market."

About  RealtyU
Formed in 1995, RealtyU has developed into the nation’s largest real estate career development corporation for real estate brokers and agents. RealtyU has numerous investments in the real estate education and real estate training arena, including RealtyU, Inc., iSucceed, Inc., CreateAPlan, Inc., Seller Agency Council, Inc., CourseDates.com, Real Estate Apprentice Foundation, Inc. and Broker Agent Speakers Bureau, Inc. With over 200 campuses, 32 websites and online educational services and over 300,000 agents trained in 2006, the RealtyU group of companies educates approximately one out of every five REALTORS(R) every year.

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A recent survey of our agents reveals the following information:

75% say listings are taking longer to sell than this time last year.
76% say this is a "buyers’ market"
70% think interest rates are not high enough to impact buyers’ purchasing decisions.

One respondent noted that the multi-list is tracking similar to this time last year.

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