At Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy we provide the respected name, the systems, the tools, the support, the management and atmosphere to help ordinary (and extraordinary) people accomplish serious financial goals. We accomplish those goals, however, in ways that are quite different from other firms.

When we started counting, we came up with 30 ways we are different. Afterwards let us know what you think. If you wish, please arrange for a confidential meeting with our management about you, your career and us.

Ethics (our rock solid foundation).

We take ethics seriously. In a town where not all brokers readily and aggressively cooperate with other real estate agents, we do. Management supports immediate co-brokering, exposure of listings to the widest audience in the shortest time and rigorous enforcement of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics. In fact we were the first REALTOR® firm in Manhattan. At every step of a transaction, we take our fiduciary responsibilities into account.

Passion

We are passionate about this wonderful business. We help our customers and clients realize their dreams. We help families find a place to build memories. We deal with life experiences and someone's largest (and probably best) investment. We put smiles in people's hearts and a twinkle in their aspirations. We look for people who understand and can connect with this emotional and highly personal business and who find in it a dream career about which they become passionate.

Humor

At Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy we are not only serious about real estate but we know that to be successful in the Manhattan market everyone also has to laugh, sometime a little, sometimes a lot. We think humor is so important to the success of our jobs that smiling is a requirement of working here right, from the start.

National Name Brand.

We put the Coldwell Banker Previews International name next to our high standards, because this world wide name provides our New York City agents with not only instant name recognition and respect, but the national and international network necessary for today's full-service real estate agent to do a thorough job and assist clients with all their real estate needs. It provides our agents with a network of referrals that builds their business.

Stock Options and Equity.

In a real estate company? Agents owning and earning stock in the very company they are helping to grow? Unheard of until Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy was created. In the last seven years every major real estate brokerage firm in Manhattan has been sold. The management received almost $150M from those sales and their sales associates and brokers received $0. We believe in shared equity, which is why we named our holding company RealShare International.

Commission Splits:

Our commission plan allows for graduated increases based upon sales. The more you earn, the more you keep, topping out at 75%. Yes, a very aggressive commission plan and equity, too.

Our Web Sites:

www.cbhk.com tells it all, but is only a part of our Internet strategy. Our goal for listings is always the widest exposure possible. Thus our listings are advertised on more of the Top Ten real estate Internet sites than any other firm in Manhattan. (See "Sellers" - "Internet Marketing Plan"). As REALTORS® we put listings on the mega-highway of sites, www.realtor.com; as part of the global Coldwell Banker family, our listings get exposed through www.coldwellbanker.com; and as a leader in Manhattan real estate all of our listings can be viewed on www.newyorktimes.com, www.olr.com, MLSmanhattan.com, and www.cityrealty.com. Our agents give consumers what they want - maximum Internet marketing - which in turn wins our agents more listings.

Support:

Having been top sales associates our mangers, JoAnne, David, Ann, and Michael know how important it is to have someone with whom to talk over a deal. Their years of experience help you get deals done. The result is more advice, smoother deals, more signed contracts, and more money for you. (See also our support staff below)

We generate business to support you.

Leads, leads and more leads. Our Relocation Department alone generates over 1000 leads including transferring sellers, buyers and renters. And our agents garner hundreds of listing and buying referrals from 120,000 Coldwell Banker agents worldwide. Our web sites generate tens of thousands of leads monthly. At Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy we provide more opportunity, to grow your business more quickly.

Through such programs as Internet Data Exchange and our Lead Router software, our Internet Lead Department transmits hundreds of leads a month to our agents, helping you to jump start your career.

Previews.

Success in selling the high end requires special marketing, know "who," know how, and a major dose of history and tradition. That's where Coldwell Banker Previews, the most successful and oldest name in luxury property marketing fits in. Nationally, Previews sells more million dollar homes than all other real estate companies in the United States combined, over 54% of the market. Join us. You can, too. Our Previews agents receive special training and have the finest marketing materials available and network with 4000 other Previews specialists across the country.

Meet Stan Ponte

Our Print Advertising:

Just some of the many publications we use to assist in exposing your listings are:

• New York Times Classified
• New York Times Luxury Homes
• Quest
• New York Times Homes Book
• Wall Street Journal
• Coldwell Banker Buyer's Guide
• Unique Homes
• Previews Guide
• New York Living
• Real Estate Book

Training.

For new agents or experienced agents, we have both. In a world and business that is rapidly changing, "doing things the old way" doesn't work. Technology, demographic patterns, popular psychology, and even New York's own co-op boards create ever shifting needs. Our training for new agents begins with our 90 day Success Center program. An incentive-based manager/coach/trainer, himself taught by one of America's top national trainers, works closely with agents to bring you the habits of success from Day 1. He is also someonesteeped in New York ways. He trains on how to prospect, how to build and keep a business, how to list, how to work with buyers, how to qualify prospects, develop relationships, handle objections and so much more. In addition, day-to-day, need-by-need training is provided in our offices by managers, senior agents, and for experienced agents there is CBUniversity (see below). Additionally, we have computer training, Outlook training, MLS training, CBHK.NET training, CB NET training and more. We incorporate some of the country's best outside training programs into our yearly training modules. In short, we continue the Coldwell Banker 101 year old tradition of setting the standard for real estate brokerage training.

www.cbu.net

Coldwell Banker University is available 24/7 providing insightful tips on how to make more from your business. No other company offers such easily retrievable on-line training on such topics as: "Make Tech work for you," "Referral Secrets," "Differentiation in a changing market," and "Sharpen your listing edge." Plus, CBU's newest hit is "isucceed weekly coaching" that helps to build your business fast. Check it out.

Make money from ALL your contacts:

Sure you have residential contacts, but what about your commercial contacts? What about the CEO friend who can use relocation services? What about that developer who might just have a big project on the drawing board? We offer Coldwell Banker Commercial Properties so you can send commercial leads and get referral fees. Through our Sales Associate Lead Program you can introduce that CEO to our relocation services and get an override on all the business derived. And New Developments, our on-site marketing arm, provides innovative marketing solutions to developers. No matter what your contact, let us help you to turn it into a commission.

Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy Referral Network:

We provide a means for you to assist in licensing 5 to 50 "buddies" who in turn send referral business to you. This is a fabulous way for you to build a circle of agents all sending you valuable business.

International:

Forget what some competitors claim about being international. We are the truly international firm in Manhattan with real offices, real agents and real listings in foreign countries, from China to Singapore to Mexico to Bermuda, to France and Israel. Check us out at Property: International

Marketing Materials.

We have the best. From our full color company brochure (that can dub as a dynamite listing presentation) to our artfully crafted "Just Listed" and "Just Sold" cards, we have hundreds of professionally printed marketing pieces to support you in your career. We call this "stuff" our smorgasbord.

Recruiting Incentives.

We provide generous incentives to those agents who help us grow by inviting other agents to consider a career here. You can, too.

Technology.

Our technologically state-of-the-art offices are tied together by T-1 lines providing instantaneous communications among 300 PCs and five servers, all connected to the internet. Voice-mail, immediate Internet connectivity, conference calling, e-mail, and electronic downloading of important documents from our common drives, allows us all to be more productive because our technology does more.

Listing Software.

We use both On Line Residential (OLR) and RealPlus listing systems. Agents can use either one or both. They allow you to manipulate data in searches, print customized customer packets, and do a professional CMA in minutes. They also can hold your contacts and e-mail listings to customers. Our Intranet site, www.cbhk.net acts as the central data storage unit for all our Internet and print marketing information. It literally connects everything you need for your business in one place, 24/7.

REALTORS®

We were the first firm in Manhattan to join the National Association of Realtors ("NAR") and agree to a national code of ethics. Our goal, however, is for all our colleagues in other firms to also become REALTORS™. As founders of the Manhattan Association of REALTORS™ and the Manhattan Multiple Listing Service, we are proud to bring to Manhattan the high standards for ethics and professionalism practiced by REALTORS™ around the globe.

Our Marketing Services Guarantee:

Ever wonder if your company will stand behind its marketing commitments? At Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy, we not only stand behind them, we ask our agents to give their sellers a written guarantee that we will live up to our promises. No need for anyone to wonder any more.

Professional Photography:

Because we want our properties to look the very best, we employ professional photographers for optimum visual effects. One e-mail to them and they professional photograph your listing so that your seller looks good and you do. too.

CBHK.NET

Our Intranet site, www.CBHK.NET connects our agents and is packed with money-making information. It also houses CBHK.TIMES, our daily newspaper thad alwyas keeps you in the know about company happenings and keeps you ahead of the competition.

Our CEO:

Not only is he the guy with the "vision thing" and a really good CEO, but sometimes David teams up with JoAnne and cooks a mean meal. Tip: don't eat for a week before the holiday party and don't tell him any Polish jokes. He has already heard them all.

Leadership:

Our company is leading Manhattan and will continue to do so. We have improved the way business is done in Manhattan. JoAnne Kennedy has served on the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York while David M. Michonski is the founding President of the Manhattan Association of the Realtors and the 2004 President of the Manhattan MLS. He has also served as the Chairman of International Operations for the National Association of Realtors.

Momentum:

Be with a company that is moving ahead, not staying in one place. Our company has grown at a 38% compound average annual growth rate for the last 5 years. Now 38% is good for one year, and great for two years and when you can do it again for three and four years that is incredible. But five years? Our growth is leaping off the charts. Come take a leap with us.

Incentive Trips:

Coldwell Banker International Business Conference
Our top agents win an expense paid trip to the Coldwell Banker International Business Conference where they get to be with 8000 top agents from around the country and trade business. We have zoo-ed in San Diego, line-danced in San Antonio, cable-car-ed in San Francisco and Disney-ed in Orlando. Great fun!

Caribbean Cruise
Top agents also have the choice of breaking out of the January cold by taking a sunny Caribbean cruise aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ships to exotic parts like Cozumel, Mexico, Key West, Florida, Paradise Island, Bahamas, St. John & St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and more. Our agents come back all de-stressed and ready to conquer the spring market. Why shouldn't you, too?

Elite Retreat

"The real estate industry is always changing," said Jim Gillespie, president and CEO, Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. "Our job is to make real estate entrepreneurs be more successful. Elite Retreat gives us the opportunity to exhibit and unveil all of the Coldwell Banker tools and systems in place to help achieve this primary goal."

Elite Retreat is for the top 1% of Coldwell Banker agents around the globe and offers attendees more than 40 educational sessions or Success Modules, networking opportunities, panel discussions and first hand access to the all our proprietary systems, tools and programs.

The 2006 Elite Retreat will be held in Chicago, Illinois. Our top agents get to go on the company. Fun stuff.

Awards and Recognition:

We take local professionals and put you on a national and international stage. Already, we have had the # 1 agent in New York State and the #1 commercial agent in the Northeast. We have a fun packed annual Awards luncheon and our top agents are recognized as International President's Elite and International President's Circle. The top designation is International Premiere agent with $500,000 or more Gross Income. (We have two such agents and you can become one, too.)