Crye named a top real estate leader in 2011
by January 26, 2012 3:26 pm 59 views
Harold Crye, co-founder and CEO of Memphis-based Crye-Leike Realtors, was named one of the most influential real estate leaders in 2011 by Inman News. 
This is the second consecutive year Crye made the prestigious list that included Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, and Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
The Inman 100, an annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate, recognizes those power brokers, leaders, experts and visionaries who influence the real estate industry with their words, actions, insights and innovations. The professionals are chosen based on their actions which helped positively impact the real estate industry in the last year.
Crye co-founded Crye-Leike Realtors in 1977 with Dick Leike. The company quickly grew and continues to expand maintaining its position as the sixth-largest U.S. real estate brokerage based on 24,260 units sold in 2010, according to a ranking by real estate research firm Real Trends.
The company also ranked 13th in the nation for its $3.85 billion sales volume in 2010. Crye expanded to Northwest Arkansas in 2007.