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Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC is an American real estate franchise owned by Realogy with headquarters in Madison, New Jersey. It was founded in 1906 in San Francisco,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=2011 Franchise Report )〕 and has approximately 3,000 offices in 43 countries and territories. == History == After the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, Colbert Coldwell and two partners formed Tucker, Lynch and Coldwell on August 27, 1906. Benjamin Arthur Banker joined the firm as a salesman in 1913, and became a partner in 1914. The company was renamed Coldwell Banker in the same year. Banker and Coldwell remained active in the company throughout their lives.〔 In 1920 Coldwell Banker moved to a three-story building in San Francisco. It opened an office in Phoenix, Arizona, its first outside California, in 1952. In the 1970s the company expanded by acquiring firms in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The first international Coldwell Banker office opened in Toronto, Canada in 1996. Coldwell Banker became a corporation in 1961, and went public in 1968. In 1981 it was bought by Sears, Roebuck, and became part of the Sears Financial Network. Sears sold it to the Fremont Group, a California investment company, for $230 million in 1993. It was sold to HFS Inc., later Cendant, in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Overview of HFS Incorporated )〕 When Cendant broke up in 2006, the real estate businesses were spun off as Realogy, which was sold to Apollo Management for about $7.75 billion.〔 In November 2005 the company, one of its agents and one of its lawyers were defendants in a lawsuit filed in Middlesex Superior Court, which alleged that Coldwell Banker and the agent hid information from a buyer on serious defects in a property. On December 13, 2011, the Appeals Court affirmed the whole fee award and ordered Coldwell Banker to pay a total of $872,000 in damages and costs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coldwell Banker Pays Homeowners $872,000 Over Deceptive Condominium Sale )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coldwell Banker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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