32 - Friday, August 23, 1985 - North Shore News Survey shows first half sales strong GROSS REVENUES generated in the first half of 1985 provide a strong in- dication that Royal LePage will have an excellent first year of operation, reports Company President William A. Dimma. According to Dimma, gross revenues for the first half stood at a “highly re- spectable’’ $186,206,000, 14 per.cent ahead of the com- parable period last year. In addition, revenues generated in the second quarter of 1985, at $106,244,000, rep- resented 33 per.cent increase over first quavter 1985 results, (Royal LePage was created on December 21, 1984, following the merger of the residential and various . commercial real estate brokerage and fee businesses of A.E. LePage Limited with Royal Trustco’s resi- dential real estate brokerage business... Therefore, 1984 results are based on pro forma combined operating results. of the two com- panies. It is pointed out that net earnings are not made public, as Royal LePage is privately-owned.) STABLE RATES ‘Dimma relates’ Royal t Call * Francoise Band, Lauren Mitchell LePage’s ongoing reventie increases largely to improv- ing business and consumer confidence and low and rela- tively stable interest rate Jevels throughout the year, He adds that improving rev- enue also can be attributed to the growing strength of the new merged company, resulting from a number of cost savings, plus marketing factors such as the recently introduced Royal LePage Mortgage. “judging from 1985 fi- nancial performance to date, which toppled all previous mid-year records, Royal LePage is off to a very healthy start,’? says Dimma. “With the second half of 1985 promising to be as strong as the first half, I ex- De THE VIEW.. .. the Rorals Kensington Starting at a $75000 (8% financing available) Open Sat. & Sun. 1-5 Open weekdays 3-7 444 Lonsdale Ave. Ken Hawes, 985-9544 pect that Royal LePage will have an excellent first year of operation.”’ Looking more closely at first half results, residential Operations contributed 3145,855,000, representing 78 per cent of total gross revenue and approximately a 22 per cent increase over the Division's sales performance in the first half of 1984, Commercial brokerage and fee operations in Canada reported gross revenues of $19,728,000, while gross revenues from Royal LePage’s remaining opera- tions (Capital Management Services, International and Real Estate Management Services) totalled $20,623,000. 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