United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Named No. 9 in the Nation
Austin/Lakeway, Texas, Office’s Top Sales Recognized by United Country Home Office
January 24, 2012 (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – United Country Real Estate, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., recently announced that United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Marketing, owned by Scott Swenson, president and chief auctioneer, was the No. 9 franchise in United Country’s international network of nearly 550 offices for 2011. United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Marketing is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and conducts auctions all across Oklahoma and Texas. Specializing in real estate, United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Marketing conducts commercial and industrial equipment auctions as well.
“The team at United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Marketing excels year after year, so this comes as no surprise at the United Country Home Office,” said Dan Duffy, chief operating officer for United Country Real Estate. “Scott and his team have combined their expertise and experience with our marketing program, putting top-notch customer service, national advertising and advanced technology to work for them.”
Last year started off with a bang for Swenson’s office. His team began 2011 with three multi-property auctions for one seller with total sales of $3 million. “We saw an increase in personal property business liquidations in 2011 with very strong prices for commercial equipment,” said Swenson. “Land auctions are still at the top of the success chart.”
Land sales were strong across the United States for United Country offices, with the Midwest region showing significant acceleration in sales activity with a 26-percent rise in land sales volumes over 2010 sales, and the Southern region posting a 23-percent sales volume increase.
“Farms and ranch land in particular showed the most substantial growth in the land category with roughly 38 percent increases year-over-year,” said Jason Cole, chief financial officer of United Country Real Estate. “But the biggest increase was in land auction sales, which was 128 percent over 2010.”
Swenson’s team includes Carl Naylor, vice president, Leslie Jones, logistics and marketing, Thomas Naylor, IT and media, George Vaught, associate auctioneer, Harry Daffern, auction set-up, and Dolly Ames, accounting.
United Country – Jones Swenson Auction Marketing can be contacted by phone at 512-261-3838 or by email at scott@jonesswenson.com. Their full listings can be viewed online at www.ucjonesswenson.com.
About United Country
United Country Real Estate is the largest fully integrated network of conventional and auction real estate professionals in the United States. The company has been an innovator in real estate marketing since 1925. United Country supports nearly 600 offices across the U.S., Costa Rica, Panama and resort areas of Mexico, with a unique, comprehensive marketing program that includes one of the largest portfolios of property marketing websites (more than 3,000 separate sites and traffic of approximately 3 million visitors per month), multiple United Country real estate catalogs with national distribution , an extensive buyer database and national advertising of local properties that reaches more than 90 million homes per week. United Country has recently been recognized by AllBusiness.com, The Land Report, Entrepreneur and The Wall Street Journal as one of the top U.S. real estate companies.
For more information:
Stephen Kretsinger 800-444-5044
skretsinger@unitedcountry.com
