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United Country Real Estate – the nation’s leading lifestyle, small city and rural real estate company – is celebrating its 90-year anniversary during May, the month the firm was established in 1925. Founded by Roscoe Chamberlain in Kansas City, Mo., the company began looking for ways to advertise local properties nationally long before television and the internet. United Country changed the real estate industry forever by producing the first national real estate catalog to expose local small city, town and surrounding properties for sale on a much broader scale, regionally and nationally.

Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed the $25,400,000 investment sale of two retail buildings located in the Big Bend Crossing shopping center of Crestwood, Missouri, a St Louis suburb. The buildings, located at 10244 & 10248 Big Bend Road were occupied by long-term tenants, Sam’s Club and Hardee’s, at the time of the purchase

Today the House of Representatives voted on Congressman Jason Smith’s language to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using any funds to implement the damaging Waters of the United States rule. The language was included in H.R. 2028, the FY2016 Energy & Water Appropriations bill, which passed the House 240-177.

Leading Blue Springs based apartment property management firm Premier Real Estate Management has guaranteed maximum possible ROI for property investors across Kansas & Missouri.

Colliers International, a leading global real estate services and investment firm, today announced the following transactions. Sales (April 19, 2015) Morrill & Janes Bank and Trust Company sold 14 acres of commercial land located at 15310 S Mahaffie Street, Olathe, Kansas to Grayson Enterprises. John Stafford SIOR, CCIM of Colliers International negotiated the transaction on behalf of the Seller. The Buyer was not represented.

Single family housing permits issued during January 2015 decreased from recent months according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Statistics report.  With 235 single family units, the January total decreased by 48 (17%) from the same month a year ago (January 2014) and 88 from December 2014.  Multi-family activity continues its growth pattern with 214 units permitted in January.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Little Rock District recently announced they are instituting a new moratorium to determine a baseline number of permits and docks for a shoreline management plan they are doing on Table Rock Lake.

This week, several of my colleagues joined me as I hosted a Special Order to express our concerns over Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overregulation that is raising the cost of electricity for families, infringing on property rights of landowners, and hurting job creation.

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) applauded the inclusion of his amendment in the flood insurance bill, which was passed by the U.S. Senate today. Blunt’s amendment will help protect private sector jobs, homeowners, and property values in Missouri and nationwide

KANSAS CITY - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) announced today that LightEdge Solutions, a colocation and information technology company owned by Anschutz Investment Company, will open a new regional office in Kansas City in the SubTropolis Technology Center, which is owned and operated by Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development. The company plans to make a $58,357,912 capital investment and create 21 new jobs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Monday, July 29, 2013, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power will hold an oversight field hearing in West Plains, Missouri, titled

JEFFERSON CITY, MO - June 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Jerald A. Dickey, of Harrisonville, to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. Dickey, a Republican, is the president and owner of Dickey Funeral Homes, which has locations in Harrisonville, Garden City and Pleasant Hill. He is a graduate of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science and is a licensed embalmer, funeral director, preneed agent funeral director, and a licensed insurance agent in the State of Missouri. The Governor has appointed Dickey for a term ending April 1, 2018; the appointment is subject to confirmation by the Missouri Senate

EUGENE, OR - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has revolutionized the real estate website of real estate broker Mike Cribbin. Ofallon, Missouri brokers, Cribbin have chosen to integrate thousands of Mid America Regional Info Systems (MARIS) listings directly onto their real estate search page, creating a thorough database of listings which their clients can conveniently search through. Additionally, Cribbin have simplified their own jobs, by letting IDX Broker software manage their listings and all of the behind-the-scenes aspects of their professional website

EUGENE, OR - April 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Lindsey Bergeron have teamed up to create a thorough and comprehensive online property search page for Eagle River, Alaska home seekers to explore. Alaska MLS (AKMLS) listings are synced to the website of Bergeron with the dynamic IDX Broker software, integrating thousands of area property listings directly on the page of Bergeron. Home seekers can experience an online property search comparable to none without ever leaving the comfort of their home or the convenience of the IDX enabled website Bergeron supports.

EUGENE, OR - April 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Four Seasons, Missouri real estate broker John Garrett have created a dynamic real estate search page on the Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate website. The Lake of the Ozarks MLS (LOBR) is now synced to Garrett’s search pages, seamlessly displaying thousands of property listings within his professional website. This incredible technology gives home seekers the ability to experience an unprecedented level of access to the LOBR database, in addition to creating a comprehensive real estate resource for property seekers in the Four Seasons area.