Prudential Select Properties Received 2013 Gibraltar Circle Award, Named #5 in Contributions to The Sunshine Kids Foundation

ST. LOUIS, MO, March 24, 2013 (Press-News.org) Prudential Select Properties was ranked #28 in network and is one of the industry's leading real estate brokerages.

The company was recognized for achieving this award and for giving back to the community at their Real Estate Expo & Awards 2013.

"We are so honored to be presented with the 2013 Gibraltar Circle Award this year," said Gary Lombardo, Vice President of Prudential Select Properties. "We strive to serve our clients to the fullest every single day and are so excited to have received this award commemorating all of our agents' hard work and dedication to all of our customers."

Prudential Select Properties was also recognized for the many contributions the company gives to The Sunshine Kids Foundation, an organization that was formed in 1982 to provide a safe place for children with cancer to feel like "normal" kids for a while in the United States and Canada. This year the company ranks #5 in contributions to the foundation.
"Prudential Select Properties has once again ranked in the Top 10 Prudential Companies for contributions to the Sunshine Kids Foundation," said G. W. Bailey, Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation. "We are very honored and grateful to have the assistance and care that Prudential Select Properties so generously offers to us."

Since 2007, Prudential Select Properties has contributed over $259,000 to The Sunshine Kids Foundation. "We are proud to be donors to such a worthy cause, and we plan on contributing to The Sunshine Kids Foundation for years to come," said Lombardo.

Prudential Real Estate, a real estate brokerage franchisor, is a company of Brookfield Residential Property Services. Prudential Real Estate franchises are independently owned and operated. Companies are selected based upon outstanding performance records and high levels of customer service.

Prudential Real Estate provides franchises with business strategies using Operation Reviews as well as numerous benefits, including access to Prudential Real Estate's Online Seller Advantage program designed to provide real-time information to sellers with the touch of a keystroke, and Online Buyer Advantage , which enables consumers to easily search for property in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Prudential Real Estate is one of the largest real estate brokerage franchise networks in North America with more than 1,500 franchise offices and 50,000 sales professionals in the franchise network as of December 31, 2011.

Formed in 2002, Prudential Select Properties has ten offices in the St. Louis Metropolitan area, representing over 500 agents. They specialize in St. Louis County real estate and St. Charles real estate, and they strive to find their customers the best homes for sale in the greater St. Louis area.

Prudential Select Properties has recently been named as the 18th Largest Female-Owned Business in the Greater St. Louis Region, and they have also been awarded with the 2012 Readers' Choice Top Agent Award from STLtoday.com.

Prudential Select Properties has recently expanded into a new location in Clayton, Missouri. Their new location is located in Upper End Properties at 7721 Clayton Road and is headed by manager Gretchen Adams.

Prudential Select ranks as the #1 locally-owned real estate firm in St. Louis. They are also ranked as #31 in the Prudential Real Estate Services national network, #3 in the St. Louis Business Journal Book of Lists of Top Real Estate firms, #2 in real estate transactions recorded by the St. Louis Association of Realtors, and are in the top 20% of real estate firms nationwide.
Prudential Select Properties also strongly believes in giving back to their local community. Throughout the years, their members have participated in many fundraising activities in St. Louis, including golf tournaments, auctions, trivia nights, and listing programs. They are also very heavily involved in giving back to The Sunshine Kids Foundation and Angels' Arms.
For more information on Prudential Select Properties, please visit online at http://www.discoverstl.com or call Prudential Select Properties at (314) 835-6000.

Prudential Select Properties, when formed in 2002, was created to keep our local market. . . well. . . local. St. Louis is our hometown. We grew up here. We live here. We work here. Who knows, you and I may even be neighbors.

The thing is, we know St. Louis. We know it's neighborhoods - we go to the Hill for Italian, hit the Loop for people watching and know Dogtown is the place to be on St. Patty's day. We were here when the Arena went down and can remember when Wildwood was actually country.

We know it's quirks. Our favorite summer treat is handed to us upside down too. We can correctly (ahem or should I say incorrectly) say Gravois, Chouteau and Spoede.

But most of all, we know its market . . . because we live in the market. Our decisions are made based on the same trends that your family experiences right down the street.