Coldwell Banker is More Than a Century Old

Before anybody writes to me to ask why I am writing about Coldwell Banker and not every other real estate company out there, please understand that I am blogging about other real estate companies, just not this very minute.

I think it's interesting to take a look at major real estate firms and talk about their history, background and specifically what these companies offer to consumers. Coldwell Banker is interesting to me because it's been around since 1906, having started in San Francisco. You know what San Francisco looked like at the turn of the 20th century, right? Muddy streets, horse-drawn carriages, women in lace-up boots and full-length garments, flaunting fashionable bonnets. Except very few women were selling real estate back in those days; it was mostly a male-dominated field.

Today, Coldwell Banker is a franchisor, owned by Realogy, which also owns Century 21. It boasts more than 3,000 franchisees in the United States and Canada. But it is also venturing into foreign markets such as Vietnam and Turkey . . . read more about Coldwell Banker.

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