April 26, 2012
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TWO BEDROOM, ONE BATHROOM IN EDGEWATER
RENT $1,495, including heat, water, parking space
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AMENITIES In-unit laundry; sunroom; formal dining room; optional rent to own (monthly $100 credit and security deposit go toward down payment)
CONTACT Christina Ishigami at MarketPlace Homes, 734-259-6563
April 25, 2012
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Lila's Report
April 20, 2012
Marketplace Homes Hiring, 80 Positions
FOX 2 Detroit
Marketplace Homes, a national real estate firm based in Livonia, is now accepting applications in search of filling 80 available positions this year.
April 10, 2012
MarketPlace Homes Commercial
March 23, 2012
Marketplace Homes to move headquarters to Livonia
Livonia Observer
Marketplace Homes will move its headquarters to Livonia in May, creating a Michigan home base for the real estate company operating in 16 states and bringing job opportunity to the city.
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March 15, 2012
Marketplace Homes helps address sellers needs in a down market
Founderbuzz
Mike Kalis joined me recently and we talked about his company Marketplace Homes and how it was benefiting home sellers in a tough financial environment. His company offers sellers a guaranteed 6 year lease on their home when they buy a home from the MarketPlace network. This allows homeowners who are underwater on their current homes to put it on the market and move onto a new home
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February 19, 2012
New Lease on Life for Homebuyers
Chicago Magazine
Like many builders with unsold inventory, Lexington Homes had tried different incentives to get would-be homeowners to sign on the dotted line. Among the roadblocks the company confronted were potential clients who would have gladly moved up to a larger house—if only they weren’t stuck in a too-small home they couldn’t sell.
Now Jeff Benach, a coprincipal at Lexington, says that he has found a way to encourage those people that they can afford to move. The credit goes to a new business model devised by the burgeoning Michigan-based Marketplace Homes.
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February 17, 2012
Marketplace Homes Brings Sales to Builders
Builder TV
Builder Senior Editor, John Caulfield, talks with Mike Kalis, a partner at Marketplace Homes, about his company’s innovative concept.
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January 31, 2012
Detroit Entrepreneur Sees New-Home-Buying Model Forged From Crisis
FOX Business Young Guns
Mike Kalis thinks everyone has the potential to be an artist.
“Whether you’re answering phones or managing or putting deals together, it’s all the same. You just have to look at things in a different way,” he said. “And when employees can look at their job and their company and say, ‘I am a part of something special, I’m a part of something that is growing’ and they see their job as artistic, that’s truly where you get the growth.”
January 11, 2012
Marketplace Homes Expands in Weak Markets
Builder Online
And you thought your salespeople were good.
Joel Parrot, who for the past 18 months has been a “solutions manager” for Marketplace Homes, helped that company’s preferred builders sell 144 new houses in 2011. Parrot was one of at least four of Marketplace’s 22 solutions managers who each negotiated more than 60 purchase agreements with buyers last year.
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January 6, 2012
Finding the Perfect Ally to Help you Sell Your Home
Chicago Tribune
Like many homeowners, John Kennedy bought his Chicago condo when home prices were high. But when he got married and wanted a bigger place, selling his condo seemed out of the question because he owed more on his home than it was worth.
The solution for John and Gillian Kennedy was to sign an agreement with Marketplace Homes of Plymouth, Mich., which guaranteed it would rent the condo or cover the rental income while it tried to sell the property for them. This enabled the Kennedys to buy a row home at Lexington Square in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
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December 28, 2011
Detroit-Area Company Helps Buyers Break Free from Existing Homes
Realty Plus
Two local homebuilders have partnered with a Midwestern company to entice hesitant customers off the fence and into new homes by offering to rent out their old residences. The program from Detroit-based Marketplace Homes helps overcome the major hurdle homebuyers have when purchasing a new house – how to sell their old one in a down market.
“It’s a great time to buy a new home,” said Gary Rhoadarmer, director of marketing for Heritage Building Group in Warwick. “It’s a tough time to sell. The program tackles that issue head on.”
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December 21, 2011
Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods Announces Partnership with Marketplace Homes
Atlanta Real Estate Forum
Want to buy a new home but can’t sell your old home? Purchase an Atlanta new home from Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods, and Marketplace Homes will take care of your old one. As a company that offers a long term lease program, Marketplace Homes leases clients’ old homes for up to six years.
“It’s a great buying market but bad selling market,” explained Mike Kalis, managing partner of Marketplace Homes. “Our program helps clients get out of old homes, and get into new homes today.”
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December 12, 2011
Would You Like a Jet Ski With That House?
Fox Business
Home sellers, real estate agents and builders recognize that pricing a home correctly is the main reason a property sells. But they also know that a creative or extravagant incentive can be the best way to get more prospective buyers to see a home.
Kristy Petrillo, a real estate agent and owner of Re/Max Town & Country in Blue Ridge, Ga., recently held an unusual open house at an early-1900s log cabin.
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December 9, 2011
Industry Experts Predict 10 Residential Real Estate Trends for 2012
Trib Local
After several difficult years for the industry, many in real estate are looking to 2012 with much anticipation. Will this year bring the return of the for-sale market, or will rentals reign? What features will emerge in home design, and how will buyer demographics change? Below, Chicago-area real estate experts weigh in on what ten trends to expect in what all agree should be a very interesting year for the industry.
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September 20, 2011
Marketplace Homes Guarantees Rent for New Home
Fox Business
Marketplace Homes Managing Partner Mike Kalis on the company’s plan to get people to start buying new homes.
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September 9, 2011
Housing Expert Sees a Return to Pricing Realism
Chicago Tribune
Jeanine McShea has seen plenty of ups and downs in residential real estate since she began her career 25 years ago. McShea, who was @Properties’ president of brokerage services, jumped ship late last month to become an executive vice president at Koenig & Strey Real Living and manage its Gold Coast office.
In an interview shortly after taking the job, McShea answered five questions about the state of a housing market that could, at best, be called difficult.
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August 22, 2011
Company Aims to Help Homeowners Sell Old, Buy New
Philly Burbs
Two local homebuilders have partnered with a Midwestern company to entice hesitant customers off the fence and into new homes by offering to rent out their old residences.
The program from Detroit-based Marketplace Homes helps overcome the major hurdle homebuyers have when purchasing a new house — how to sell their old one in a down market.
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What This Year’s Business Trends Forecast for 2012
Philadelphia Business Journal
Two Philadelphia-area builders have signed up with a company that guarantees buyers of new homes that their old homes will be rented out if a buyer can not be found, phillyBurbs reports.
Heritage Building Group of Warwick and Orleans of Bensalem are part of a program by Marketplace Homes, which “offers customers up to six years of guaranteed rent payments, as long as they agree to buy a new home through one of Marketplace’s partners,” phillyBurbs says.
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How to Clear a Big Home Buying Hurdle
Philadelphia Business Journal
Two Philadelphia-area builders have signed up with a company that guarantees buyers of new homes that their old homes will be rented out if a buyer can not be found, phillyBurbs reports.
Heritage Building Group of Warwick and Orleans of Bensalem are part of a program by Marketplace Homes, which “offers customers up to six years of guaranteed rent payments, as long as they agree to buy a new home through one of Marketplace’s partners,” phillyBurbs says.
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