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Sereno Group Ranked #1 Best Place to Work in San Francisco Bay Area

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Sereno GroupThe Bay Area News Group has announced the Top Workplaces for 2010 within the San Francisco bay area of California. Sereno Group was ranked as the #1 Best Place to Work within the Top Small Work Places 2010 category. This ranking includes companies from all business categories with fewer than 150 employees; it includes profit and non-profit, as well as public and private sector organizations and businesses, making this ranking all the more remarkable.

The Top Small Workplaces for 2010 ranking of companies in the San Francisco Bay Area was provided by Workplace Dynamics. The ranking was based purely on the opinions of each company’s employees, provided through an extensive twenty-two question employee survey which measured workplace areas including: direction, execution, career, managers, conditions, pay and benefits.

Seeing that Sereno Group’s #1 ranking was agent/staff driven shows what a wonderful and dynamic culture Sereno Group has cultivated, a culture that is continually developed each day by its employees, and a culture that has made the Sereno Group the #1 Best Place to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

View the list of Top Small Work Places 2010.

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Sereno Group Real Estate Ranked 4th Most Productive Brokerage in the Silicon Valley

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Sereno GroupOn April 30th 2010, The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal named Sereno Group Real Estate the 4th most productive residential real estate brokerage in the Silicon Valley for 2009. This esteemed ranking was announced in the Business Journal’s annual Book of Lists, which identifies the top businesses within all facets of industry within the Silicon Valley. Being listed within the Book of Lists pages is seen as one of the most prestigious recognitions for businesses in the Silicon Valley. The publication currently has over 2,600 top businesses listed, of which Sereno Group was noted as a leader to watch in the real estate market.

“We are extremely honored to be ranked among the top producing brokerages in the Silicon Valley and are tremendously proud of our team and their accomplishment,” stated Chris Trapani, President and CEO of Sereno Group. “The recognition is also a fantastic acknowledgment of the quality of our people. Our team was able to accomplish their ranking with approximately 10% of the overall sales team as compared to the larger brokerages. We are honored to be recognized on the list but have also set a goal to continue providing the best and highest quality service to our clients and community. It’s a wonderful step in our overall journey.”

Sereno Group is quickly climbing the ladder of success. From humble beginnings in 2006, Sereno Group quickly established itself as a real estate market leader by attracting top producing agents who continually attain the highest per-agent productivity within the Silicon Valley. Sereno Group currently has 124 top-producing agents who service the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and beyond. This industry leader has grown quickly and now utilizes four offices located in Los Gatos, Saratoga, Los Altos, and Santa Cruz. As Sereno Group continues to expand, they are repeatedly setting the bar high for other real estate firms who try in vain to catch up.

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U.S. Economy: Consumer Confidence, Home Prices Rise (Update1)

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

By Courtney Schlisserman

March 30 (Bloomberg) — Consumers in the U.S. gained confidence in March as the gloom over job prospects began to lift, indicating employment will be central to preserving the recent acceleration in spending.

The Conference Board’s confidence index rose to 52.5, exceeding the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, from 46.4 in February, according to figures today from the New York research group. Home prices unexpectedly rose in January for an eighth month, data also showed.

“With signs of improvement in the labor market, confidence is more likely to be up than down in the next few months,” said James O’Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global Ltd. in New York, who forecast sentiment would pick up. “It’s still a low level of confidence.”

U.S. Economy: Gain in Payrolls Shows Recovery More Entrenched

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

By Timothy R. Homan

April 2 (Bloomberg) — Employers in the U.S. created more jobs in March than at any time in the past three years, showing the recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s is broadening and becoming more entrenched.

Payrolls rose by 162,000 workers, the third gain in the past five months and the most since March 2007, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. The increase included 48,000 temporary workers hired by the government to conduct the census. Unemployment was 9.7 percent for a third month.

NBER’s Hall Says Payrolls Make it “Pretty Clear” Recession Over

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

By Steve Matthews – April 3, 2010 (Bloomberg)

The biggest increase in employment in three years makes it “pretty clear” the deepest U.S. recession since the 1930s has ended, said the head of the group charged with making the call.

Payrolls rose by 162,000 workers last month, the third gain in the past five months and the most since March 2007, figures from the Labor Department showed yesterday in Washington.  “I personally put lots of emphasis on employment,” Robert Hall, who heads the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, said in an interview. “I would say ‘pretty clear’ is a good description” for whether the economic contraction has ended, he said.