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Harbor Springs has been named one of the Top 10 Spring Break Destinations for Families by Livability.com, a national website that highlights more than 500 of America’s best places to live!

Harbor Springs came in at #5 — click to read the article and view all ten destinations on Livability.com.

Livability.com also offers additional articles on life in and around Harbor Springs:

• Livability: Harbor Springs, MI

The agents and staff of the Prudential One Realty Warsaw Office recently made donations and volunteered their time to Combined Community Services, a food bank in Warsaw. Time was spent helping to stock shelves, organize the stock room, and fill orders for needy families.

The Prudential team enjoyed their time so much that they have made a monthly commitment for volunteer time, and also in helping with the food bank’s upcoming move to a new facility.

We are proud to be serving in our local communities!

Please join us in welcoming Shelly Misak to the Prudential Preferred, REALTORS’ Stadium Dr. (Kalamazoo) office!

To learn more about Shelly, or view her current listings, visit her profile page on PPRMI.com.

Harbor Springs and its surrounding areas offer beautiful lakefront real estate, vacation homes and year-round properties. Located on the Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan, this area is a gem in the crown of Northern Michigan!

Our local REALTORS can help you get the best out of your Harbor Springs, Michigan experience while being a part of the Prudential Real Estate national network providing the latest tools for buyers and sellers.

Visit www.harborspringsrealestate.org to search homes for sale in Harbor Springs today!

Please join us in welcoming Emily Parfet to the Prudential Preferred, REALTORS’ West Michigan Ave. (Kalamazoo) office!

To learn more about Emily, or view her current listings, visit her profile page on PPRMI.com.

Prudential One Realty of Northern Indiana Joins With Prudential Preferred, REALTORS® of Michigan

Merger Creates Only Real Estate Firm Serving Both Northern, Southwestern Michigan and Indiana

Elkhart, IN. – On January 10, 2012, Prudential One Realty announced its merger with Prudential Preferred, REALTORS^® of Michigan. The four northern Indiana and two Michigan offices, with over 70 agents, will continue to operate as Prudential One Realty. The combined entities will become the one of the largest real estate brokerage companies in the Midwest with a sales team of over 450 agents and 26 offices.

According to Joe Dunfee, President of Prudential One Realty, “This is a culmination of four years of discussions and planning.  I am excited about the dynamics of this new partnership. Prudential Preferred, REALTORS^® is an agent and customer centric company and is on the cutting edge of technology which helps us better serve our customers. We are taking the best of what both companies offer and creating a more effective way to support our agents.” The merger creates the only real estate company to span from the Michigan-Indiana border to the Straits of Mackinac.

Prudential Preferred, REALTORS^® is an independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate network with a 50-year history of real estate sales. Along with its presence throughout northern Michigan in Charlevoix, Boyne City, Gaylord, Harbor Springs, Beaver Island, Torch Lake and Petoskey; it has offices in Grand Rapids, Rockford, Kalamazoo, Portage, Battle Creek, Marshall, Richland, Plainwell, Colon, Three Rivers and South Haven. Find out more and view over 40,000 Michigan properties at www.PPRMI.com.

(L-R) Joe Dunfee - President of Prudential One Realty; Joyce Ott - General Sales Manager; Steve Fase - President of Prudential Preferred, REALTORS

Press release published in The Elkhart Truth; online edition on January 20, 2012 and print edition on January 29, 2012

John Laney, a REALTOR at the Charlevoix office of Prudential Preferred Properties Network, is featured in an article published by the Petoskey News Review. The article tells the story of one woman who was able to purchase her first home with the assistance of various housing and financial programs.

• Read the article, A home for Jayne, on PetoskeyNews.com