Columbia’s United Country Missouri Land & Home Earns No. 2 Nationwide Ranking
 Among 600 United Country Offices Across the U.S.

March 28, 2011 (Kansas City, Mo.) - United Country Missouri Land & Home of Columbia, Mo., has secured a top national ranking among United Country Real Estate’s nearly 600 franchise offices coast-to-coast. The company, owned by Kurt Hollenberg, secured the No. 2 nationwide ranking and the No. 1 ranking for the company’s Central Division and the state of Missouri. Missouri Land & Home agent, Marty Canterbury, was also named United Country’s No. 7 sales agent among the company’s more than 4,500 sales associates across the nation.

 As a result of their 2010 success, Missouri Land & Home earned United Country’s prestigious Summit Club Gold Award as well as the company’s Listing Consistency Award, which were presented during United Country’s National Training & Awards Convention, March 7-9, in Austin, Texas.
“We’re excited to be a part of the largest network of traditional real estate agents and auctioneers in the country,” said Hollenberg. “Through our partnership with United Country, we are able to provide clients the proven benefits of the United Country marketing program, and our 2010 results are evidence of the power of what we can offer sellers.”

Four associates with United Country Missouri Land & Home also earned individual sales honors among the company’s top sales agents nationwide. In addition to the No. 7 agent title, Marty Canterbury received United Country’s prestigious Pinnacle Elite Award. Matt Wear and Jose Cruz each received the company’s Pinnacle Silver Award and Richard Henke earned the Pinnacle Club honor.

About United Country
United Country Real Estate is the largest fully integrated network of conventional and auction real estate professionals in the United States. Based in Kansas City, Mo., 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 the resort areas of Mexico, with a unique, comprehensive marketing program that includes one of the largest portfolios of property marketing web sites (more than 1,400 separate sites), seven proprietary real estate catalogs with a cumulative distribution of 1.5 million readers, an extensive, current buyer database and national advertising of 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.

United Country Real Estate is the nation’s largest and only organization of real estate professionals and auctioneers with 600+ offices located in the towns and cities of America, Costa Rica & Panama.  With a heritage dating back to 1925, they have a long history of uniting buyers and sellers.  United Country has recently been recognized by AllBusiness.com, The Land Report, Entrepreneur & The Wall Street Journal as one of the top U.S. real estate companies.  Closing approximately $1 billion in land sales annually, United Country is the largest land brokerage listed in a recent Land Report article, which evaluated the nation’s leading land brokerages based on 2010 sales.