Bean Group is happy to announce that customers can now see the property descriptions for properties for sale in Essex County Massachusetts without having to create a user account or be logged in to their account. We are pleased to provide the additional information to Bean Group customers effective immediately!

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Bean Group is pleased to announce our 12th office, scheduled to open the first week of May in Dover, New Hampshire.

Bean Group agents have historically been very active in Dover, and the company’s market share in Dover has grown significantly in recent months.

We are truly excited to expand our presence in the Dover real estate market. Our new location will support existing Bean Group agents in Dover and surrounding markets and will provide a great alternative for Dover area REALTORS interested in aligning with a progressive, real estate brokerage with an outstanding track record of success.

About Bean Group

Bean Group (www.beangroup.com) is a leading real estate firm servicing real estate customers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, and is the largest independent real estate brokerage in New Hampshire.

For the third consecutive year, Bean Group has been named to the prestigious Real Trends 500 Largest Brokers in the United States. The Real Trends 500 annually identifies the 500 largest real estate brokerages in the US ranked by closed transactions and closed sales volume.

Portsmouth, NH April 6, 2011 – For the third consecutive year Bean Group has been named to the Real Trends annual compilation of the 500 Largest Brokers in the United States.

Bean Group was named to the 2011 Real Trends 500 largest brokers in the US, ranked both by closed transactions and by closed sales volume.

The REAL Trends 500 is an annual research report which identifies the United States’ largest and most successful residential firms as ranked by closed transaction sides and separately by closed sales volume. This report represents the most trusted standard of measuring the performance of the nation’s leading realty service firms.

“The Real Trends 500 is the real estate brokerage industry’s equivalent to the Fortune 500.” said Michael Bean, President and CEO of Bean Group.” Bean continues “Our substantial investment in our proprietary marketing and technology platforms as well as our continued expansion of our footprint in New England have all contributed to our positive year over year growth.”

About Bean Group

Bean Group (www.beangroup.com) is a leading independent real estate brokerage with offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Vermont. With eleven offices and hundreds of professional real estate agents, Bean Group provides exceptional customer service and a distinct marketing and technology advantage to real estate buyers and sellers in New England.

LAS VEGAS, NV — Michael Bean, CEO, Bean Group was a speaker at the 2011 Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) conference March 8-10, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Nevada. Despite the economy, attendance at the annual event outpaced last year’s conference, with 800 top real estate brokers, managers, relocation professionals, sponsors and guests attending from the U.S. and eight countries around the world. Participating brokerages represented a significant share of the U.S. real estate market, with annual sales production of over $250 billion. The event’s sponsors included Grand Sponsor HGTV’s FrontDoor.com.

The week-long series of four conferences in one boasted a noteworthy line-up of over 150 speakers from within the real estate industry and beyond, who addressed a broad range of topics relating to real estate management, technology, marketing and business development. Keynote presentations included former White House Director of Economic Policy Todd Bucholz; Scott Belsky, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People; real estate coach and generational expert Jared James; Michael Tchong, founder and trend analyst of Ubercool, Inc.; Brian Solis, best-selling author of Engage; Alex Charfen, CEO of The Distressed Property Institute; REAL Trends Editor Steve Murray; and Brian Boero of 1000watt Consulting. Also featured were Michael Staver, chief learning officer of Institute 2.0, LeadingRE’s new online learning community, and Institute faculty members Steve Harney and Matthew Ferrara, all leading business coaches and consultants.

“We applied our 2011 conference theme of ‘Engage. Innovate. Lead’ quite literally to develop a program that inspires our members to compete at a higher level, create better ways to connect with consumers, and generally raise the bar in the real estate industry,” notes Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® President/CEO Pam O’Connor. “Ongoing shifts in the housing market, technology and the way people communicate make it essential for real estate professionals to continuously build their competence. This annual showcase event brings together the best minds in the business to do just that.”

Bean presented information at a panel session entitled “FutureTense: Why Hyper-Local Marketing?”

Bean is the founder and CEO of Bean Group. He has served as President of the Seacoast Board of REALTORS® and President of NNEREN MLS. He was named 2007 REALTOR® of the Year by the Seacoast Board of REALTORS®.

Bean Group is the local representative of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the largest network of over 600 premier locally-branded firms producing almost $250 billion in annual home sales. LeadingRE provides a broad range of brokerage services to its affiliates, including lead generation, branding support, luxury marketing, Web exposure and technology systems, and state of the art learning and credentialing.

For more information on Bean Group, visit beangroup.com or call 603.766.1980.

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About Bean Group

Bean Group (www.beangroup.com) is a leading independent real estate brokerage with offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Vermont. Bean Group has been named to the prestigious Real Trends 500 Largest Brokers in the United States. The Real Trends 500 annually identifies the 500 largest real estate brokerages in the US ranked by closed transactions and closed sales volume.

About Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (www.LeadingRE.com) is the largest network of top independent local and regional brand-name brokerage firms in the residential sector of real estate. The 600 firms affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® are represented by 5,000 offices and 150,000 associates in more than 30 countries worldwide. The organization’s leadership is demonstrated by the fact that its affiliates comprise six of the top 10 real estate companies in the country. Collectively, LeadingRE affiliates produced nearly 1 million home sales valued at $250 billion in the U.S. in 2009. In addition, LeadingRE affiliates hold the Number One position in terms of sales or volume in more of the top markets than any other organization.

Have you ever passed a home for sale and wondered about the price and other details? If so, Bean Group just launched a new way for mobile phone users to get rich property details of ANY HOME for sale by simply texting the word BEAN to 59559.

Bean Group’s new service leverages the latest technology of a mobile phone to get info on any property for sale in NH, VT and MA.  No matter where you are you can get immediate specifics on those properties that catch your eye – without having to speak with a salesperson! All you need to do is text BEAN to 59559.

Give it a try any time, anywhere in Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Vermont!

Portsmouth, NH September 1, 2010 – Bean Group announced today that it has successfully launched its core residential brokerage services into the Massachusetts real estate market, thereby increasing the number of listings available on Bean Group’s flagship website by over 50,000.

“The Real Estate Market in the Northeast continues to stabilize and shows many signs of positive growth in the years to come,” said Michael Bean, President and CEO of Bean Group. The Massachusetts launch follows a recent and successful expansion into the Maine and Vermont real estate markets after a 7 year period where the Bean Group grew to be the largest independent real estate firm in New Hampshire.

Studies show that 90% of customers start their home search online, so Bean Group’s powerful and intuitive award winning website, www.beangroup.com, should make quick inroads with home shoppers in Massachusetts.

“In a market where many real estate brokerages continue to reduce services to customers and agents, Bean Group continues to expand its coverage and services. With 238 agents and growing, Bean Group continues to be the destination of choice for real estate professionals looking to expand their career trajectory” said Paul Ringuette, Bean Group’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

For additional information, contact:

Paul Ringuette
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Bean Group
72 Mirona Road, Suite 17
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Ph: 603-766-1980
E: paul.ringuette@beangroup.com

For the second consecutive year Bean Group has been named to the Real Trends 500 Largest Brokers in the United States.

The Real Trends 500 annually identifies the 500 largest real estate brokerages in the US.  Bean Group was named to the 2010 Real Trends 500 largest firms, ranked both by closed transactions and by closed sales volume.

This is a wonderful milestone for Bean Group to achieve, particularly given the fact that we reached this in our 6th year in business. Our business model, which is unique within the real estate brokerage industry, is ideally suited to today’s real estate environment.

Since founding the company in December 2003 Bean Group has grown to eight offices with more than 225 agents and employees, and we are recognized as the largest independent brokerage in New Hampshire. It is worthwhile to note that much of the growth of the company has occurred during the challenging real estate market of the last two years.

We have a wonderful team of talented agents and employees, a great business model, and an incredibly useful, one stop real estate website that puts our sellers right in front of today’s buyer. We look forward to continued expansion and success throughout New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.

Thank you again this year to our customers, agents and employees for contributing to our growth.

Bean Group’s Meredith office will be moving next month. Our new office will be located at Meredith Bay Shops at 38 N Route 25 in Meredith, NH.

Meredith Bay Shops was redeveloped in 2008 and is now anchored by a newly constructed ‪Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy‬. Other shops include Rite Aid, Olympia Sports and Meredith Village Greenery. The property is strategically located at the intersection of US Route 3 and NH Route 25 resulting in 19,600 average daily traffic count.

The Meredith Bean Group office will offer flexible workspace and conference space for our Lakes Region REALTORS®. The office is currently undergoing construction and is slated to open March 2010.

Lakes Region REALTORS® interested in exploring opportunities with Bean Group can inquire online or contact Bean Group’s Principal Broker, Michael Bean at 603.766.1980.

Our new Lakes Region Real Estate Office incorporates Bean Group's color palette in the design.

Our new Meredith Office is designed to be a inviting, bright, productive environment.

Michael Bean, Principal Broker of Bean Group

Excerpted from Sunday Portsmouth Herald (October 11, 2009)

After more than two years of real estate industry turmoil with the housing and financial market crashes, record foreclosures and a deep economic recession, there is hope that the market is making a turn.

“Buyers are emerging, particularly first-time home buyers -  this is where a significant portion of the sales activity is,” said Michael Bean, president of the Seacoast Board of Realtors. “The $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, coupled with historically low interest rates, and historically low prices creates a significant opportunity for those buyers that are in a position to make a move.”

Bean said the sales volume for his firm, Portsmouth-based Bean Group, is up almost 10 percent over the same period last year and the number of sales in the same period has increased as well, by almost 20 percent. Bean said with less than 50 days before the expiration of the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time home buyers, a last-minute rush of buyers may help rejuvenate the soft Seacoast residential real estate market.

“From my vantage point, the market is moving along well,” Bean said. “In recent conversations I’ve had with lenders and title companies, the consensus is that there may be a crush of transactions closing in the last week of November as buyers scramble to lock in the tax credit.”

Read the full article here.

Bean Group would like to welcome the professional REALTORS from Country Brookside Real Estate to our new office located at 780 Central Street in Franklin, NH.

Joining us from Country Brookside Real Estate are: Susan Locantore, Michael Gagne, Brenda Seavey, Sandra Rodriguez, Amie Lynn McDonald, William Wolf, and Bette Hammond.

Bean Group’s Franklin office is strategically located just a few minutes from I-93 with convenient, central access to the communities of Franklin, Andover, Salisbury, Tilton, Andover, Hill, Sanbornton, Canterbury, Boscawen, Belmont, Danbury, New Hampton, Wilmot, Laconia, Bristol, Sutton, Warner, Gilmanton and Loudon.

Country Brookside Real Estate was founded by Susan Locantore in 1999 and was located at 285 Main Street in Tilton, NH.

Bean Group is currently the #1 independent real estate brokerage in NH with offices in Portsmouth, Bedford, Derry, Nashua, Wolfeboro, Meredith, Franklin, and Taftsville, Vermont.

For more about Bean Group visit beangroup.com, voted “Best Real Estate Website in NH” or call the main office at 603-766-1980.