John Boch and Bill Funtjar of Coldwell Banker King Thompson Members of “The Real Estate Top 200”

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Bock and Bill Funtjar of Coldwell Banker King Thompson were named two of America’s top real estate professionals by REAL Trends. John and Bill are now members of “The Real Estate Top 200,” a prestigious national awards ranking sponsored annually by The Wall Street Journal, lore magazine and REAL Trends. Boch and Funtjar are now ranked in the top 1 percent of the more than 1.2 million REALTORS® nationwide.

“Our company is really proud of what these two professionals have been able to accomplish, and getting to see how hard our associates work, it is always great when they get the recognition they deserve,” said Jerry White, Executive Vice President, Coldwell Banker King Thompson.

The Real Estate Top 200 honored the top 50 residential agents and agent teams in four categories:

• Individual Sales Professionals – Sales volume
• Individual Sales Professionals – Transaction sides (in each real estate transaction, there are two sides that can be represented by a real estate agent: a buyer’s and a seller’s.)
• Team Professionals – Sales Volume
• Team Professionals – Transaction sides

According to The Real Estate Top 200, John Boch, Hilliard Office, had 275 transaction sides ranking him number 13 in the nation for Individual Sales Professionals, and Bill Funtjar, Pickerington Office, had 182 transaction sides ranking him number 43 in the nation for Individual Sales Professionals.

“Being named to The Real Estate Top 200 is truly an honor and it is our pleasure to have the opportunity to recognize John and Bill’s efforts, which exceeded 99.9 percent of the more than 1.2 million REALTORS nationwide,” said Marti Gallardo, vice president of classified advertising for The Wall Street Journal.

Information on the winners can also be found online at www.loremagazine.com.

About Coldwell Banker King Thompson and Coldwell Banker West Shell:

Across Ohio, Coldwell Banker King Thompsons and Coldwell Banker West Shell have 25 offices and over 1,600 sales associates serving central Ohio, great Cincinnati, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. The companies are part of NRT LLC, the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company. NRT, a subsidiary of Realogy Corporation, operates Realogy’s company-owned real estate brokerage offices. For more information, visit www.kingthompson.com or www.cbws.com.

About The Real Estate Top 200:

The Real Estate Top 200 awards program was developed jointly by The Wall Street Journal’s Business Development Group and REAL Trends, a leading source of analysis and information for the residential real estate brokerage industry, and lore magazine, the “people” magazine for the industry. The Real Estate Top 200 honors America’s elite real estate agents and their companies and is compiled and analyzed by REAL Trends. Winners were published in a special advertising supplement of The Wall Street Journal, lore magazine and on www.loremagazine.com.

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