Re/Max’s Liniger Named To BusinessWeek’s ‘Most Powerful In Real Estate’ List

March 27, 2010

The magazine picked Liniger in the Residential Brokerage category for his “influential voice in the real estate industry, ” even though privately held Re/Max is now run by CEO Margaret Kelley.

“He encouraged agents to help families facing foreclosure, and more than 10,000 Re/Max agents earned the Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) designation in 2009,” Liniger’s biography in the listing states.

Liniger also lobbied for the extension of the federal government’s $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit and short-sale reforms.

“… We couldn’t sit by and just watch the negative impacts on our country [of this market cycle],” Liniger said in a statement. “We’ve done everything in our power to bring about positive change, but recognize there’s still lots to do. We’re not out of the woods yet.”

Others on the list of people who have a big impact on the real estate industry include President Barack Obama; James Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM); David Neithercut, CEO of apartment REIT Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR); and Vicki Cox Golder, president of the National Association of Realtors.

Economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller of the influential S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index and Mark Tercek, chief executive of The Nature Conservancy, made the list as well. (The Nature Conservancy controls 2.8 million acres in this country.) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao even made the ranking, since China holds $895 billion of U.S. debt.

Liniger and wife, Gail Liniger, founded Re/Max, which stands for “real estate maximum,” in 1973 with a single office in Denver. The residential real estate brokerage franchisor now oversees a network with operations in more than 75 countries and nearly 96,000 agents, according to the company.

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