KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sept. 6, 2017 Mineral Marketing co-owner and chief operations officer has been promoted to lead the Nation's largest rural & lifestyle real estate and auction organization. United Country Real Estate, the largest integrated auction and tradition real estate company in the United States, announced today that Shawn Terrel a 25 year veteran of the auction industry has been promoted to lead the United Country Real Estate | Auction Services as President. Terrel was formerly Executive Vice President of UCRE | Auction Services and has helped build and enhance the division since joining the company in 2006.
In his role as president, Terrel will provide the strategic planning, management and program enhancements for the group. Over the past 10 years, Terrel has successfully helped architect, develop, innovate and provide direction for what is now the largest national auction real estate team in the United States. Recognized as a leader in the auction technology and marketing industry, Terrel has successfully managed to launch dynamic auction office and agent websites, a leading national online auction platform, enhanced auction marketing services, auction service support and training, and has fully integrate auction services within traditional real estate brokerages across the U.S. His auction services team supports more than 300 individual auctioneers and nearly 500 franchise real estate offices across the U.S., as well as Mexico and Central America. His efforts have played a significant role in the division representing over 20-percent of the annual sales within the $6 billion United Real Estate Group network.
"Shawn is an extremely innovative and progressive auctioneer and business leader. He has played a critical leadership role by successfully developing a very powerful auction services program at United Country Real Estate. This year alone Auction Services has achieved strong record sales and has had an additional ten new auction centric offices join the network in the first 7 months. We are excited to have Shawn Terrel as the leader of our auction division as we enter the next level of auction technology and marketing innovation," said Mike Duffy, President, United Country Real Estate.
During his career, Terrel has professionally served on the board of directors at the National Auctioneers Association, is a multiple State Champion auctioneer, is an instructor for the Certified Auctioneers Institute at Indiana University, has trained hundreds of auction classes, and is a nationally recognized real estate and asset auctioneer. His experience consisting of over 2,500 auctions which range from real estate, personal assets, livestock, oil & gas, and numerous charities has contributed a wealth of knowledge to UCRE.