Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors
The Voice for Real Estate in Minneapolis area Minnesota
Established in 1887, the Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS (MAAR) is the leading regional advocate and provider of information services, research and education on the real estate industry for brokers, real estate professionals and the public. With over 10,000 members, MAAR is one of the 20 largest associations in the real estate industry and serves the Twin Cities 13-county metro area and Wisconsin.
Our goal is to support the healthy growth of the Twin Cities real estate market and help consumers make more informed real estate decisions. Through our advocacy efforts and promotion of the industry, we will continue to redefine and advance organized real estate in the regions we serve.
Membership in MAAR demonstrates a real estate professional’s commitment to maintaining highest ethical and professional standards.
History of Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS
In 1887, the city of Minneapolis was a young, fast-growing milling and transportation center of more than 100,000 persons. Real estate agents (they would not use the term REALTOR until 1916) had been active for at least three decades, though not always with the happiest results for either the public or the more ethical practitioners among their number.
The market itself, despite the city’s rapid development, was an up-and-down affair, susceptible to the booms and busts of the economy at large.
Clearly, what 18 local real estate pioneers had in mind when, on January 15, 1887, they organized the Minneapolis Real Estate Exchange was something that would promote high standards of behavior within the industry while helping to stabilize and enhance the industry itself.
As it happened, that original organization and its immediate successor would survive only a few years before collapsing, along with the local market, under the pressure of the nationwide financial panic of the 1890s.
But just as the market would come back, so would the organization—first as the Minneapolis Real Estate Board, eventually as the Greater Minneapolis Area Board of Realtors. And the commitment of those original pioneers to the highest professional standards, to civic progress and improvement, and to the stabilization and enhancement of the real estate business became the abiding commitment not only of the Minneapolis Board, but of the national organization its members helped found.
It is a commitment—as well as a legacy—that continues to this day, a full and busy century later.
This publication officially marks the centennial of the founding of the Minneapolis Board. It is intended to be at one and the same time a glance backward to the Board’s origins and a celebration of its considerable—and continuing—achievements. It is, admittedly, an incomplete record; only a handful of the many pioneers and uncountable practitioners have been mentioned in its pages.
Yet, by mentioning these few, its intention is to honor the many—including all current REALTORS who are carrying the pioneers’ commitment to professionalism and excellence into a second eventful century.
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Board of Directors
Deb Greene, ABR, CIPS, CRS, GRI
President
Coldwell Banker Burnet, Plymouth NW
4100 Berkshire Ln N
Plymouth, MN 55446-3813
Phone: 763.559.1014
Fax: 763.559.1258
Kevin Knudsen, CRS, GRI
President-Elect
Coldwell Banker Burnet, Mpls So
4705 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407-3633
Phone: 651.683.1121
Julie Olson, GRI
Secretary
Exit Team Realty
1421 E Wayzata Blvd #110
Wayzata, MN 55391-1901
Phone: 763.697.5800
Fax:952.697.5801
Steve Havig, CRS, GRI
Treasurer
Lakes Area Realty of Minneapolis
1428 W 28th St
Minneapolis, MN 55408-1903
Phone: 612.870.9891
Fax: 612.870.9774
Todd Shipman, CBR, CIPS, CRS, GRI
Immediate President
Sky Sotheby’s International Realty
4388 France Ave S
Edina, MN 55410-1301
Phone: 952.230.3101
Fax: 952.230.3102
Gregg Roeglin, CBR, CRB
Past-President
Edina Realty, Inc.
6800 France Ave S, Suite 230
Edina, MN 55435-2009
Phone: 952.927.1100
Fax: 952.927.1675
Darwin Barker
Edina Realty, Inc.
6800 France Ave S, Suite 230
Edina, MN 55435-2009
Phone: 952.9271100
Fax: 952.927.1675
Richard A. Bauer
Edna Realty
102 East Lake St
Minneapolis, MN 55408-3114
Phone: 612.822.2049
Fax: 612.822.2079
Cathy Berzins, GRI, CRS
Edina Realty, Plymouth
4425 Highway 169
Plymouth, MN 55442-2856
Phone:763.425.2341
Fax:763.557.4595
Jessica Edwards
Coldwell Banker Burnet
Minneapolis South
4705 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407-5737
Phone: 612.721.7495
Fax: 612.721.2272
Jan Filer
Coldwell Banker Burnet, Plymouth NW
4100 Berkshire Ln N
Plymouth, MN 55446-3813
Phone: 763.559.4990
Fax: 763.559.1258
Mike Hoffman, CRB, SIOR
Coldwell Banker Burnet
Edina/50th Street Office
5036 France Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2033
Phone: 952.920.1091
Fax: 952.920.3864
Brian Leonard
RE/MAX Results
2605 Campus Drive
Plymouth, MN 55441-2612
Phone: 763.591.6000
Fax: 763.591.6030
Carr Linn
Coldwell Banker Burnet – Eden Prairie
7820 Terrey Pine Ct
Eden Prairie, MN 55347-1126
Phone: 952.934.5400
Fax: 952.934.0287
Sandy Patterson
Past-President
Edina Realty, Plymouth
3021 Harbor Lane N
Plymouth, MN 55447-5103
Phone: 763.567.7010
Fax: 763.567.7096
Pat Paulson
Great Minneapolis Real Estate
5357 Penn Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55419-1056
Phone: 612.925.5990
Fax: 612.925.9117
Marilyn Richter, CRS
Roger Fazendin, REALTORS
1421 Wayzata Blvd
Wayzata, MN 55391-1939
Phone: 952.473.7000
Fax: 952.473.3127
Matt Strobl
Edina Realty, Inc.
6800 France Ave S, Suite 230
Edina, MN 55435-2009
Phone: 952.927.1100
Fax: 952.927.1675
James Tice
CENTURY 21 Luger Realty
4536 France Avenue South
Edina, MN 55410-1368
Phone: 952-925-3901
Fax: 952-925-0019
Rodolfo A. Trujillo
RE/MAX Casas-Homes Realty, Inc
3105 Bloomington Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Phone: 952.476.8878
Fax: 612.722.2714
Butch Zelinsky, GRI
RE/MAX Results
5201 Eden Ave #100
Edina, MN 55436-2315
Phone: 763.476.9374
Fax: 952.848.2410
Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS
5750 Lincoln Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55436
952.933.9020
952.933.9021 fax
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors