UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE handles a large volume of high-quality residential sales in Cambridge and Greater Boston. Its various trademarks include "Houses Near Harvard" and "Choice Cambridge Condominiums". It is a specialized professional practice, restricted to appraisal and sale only. The company has no rental, property-management or insurance distractions.

All sales associates of University Real Estate own a home here themselves. All staff are available at individual direct-dial phone numbers, ringing both office and home. Extensive homefinding search capabilities are on the firm's web pages: www.homesnearharvard.com is one address.

FRED MEYER founded the firm in 1963. He is called the "dean" of Cambridge real estate agents, with by far the most years of real estate experience in Cambridge. He holds the professional designations of GRI (Graduate, Realtors Institute) from the MA. Association of Realtors, and CRB (Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager) and CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) from the Realtors National Marketing Institute. The latter two designations are held by only a tiny portion of all the Realtors in America.

Back in 1981, he was elected the first president of the newly named Cambridge Council of Realtors. Then in 1990, he was voted "Realtor of the Year" for the entire Greater Boston Real Estate Board. In 1991, he was elected President of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, serving as leader of the 4,000 residential Realtors in all 54 cities and towns of Greater Boston.

In 2000, he was elected President of the 15,600-member MA Association of Realtors, which has a $2.5 million budget. For 2002 & 2003, he was elected one of the Directors of the 1,000,000-member National Association of Realtors. For 2004-7, he is president of Real Estate Agents for Real Agency.

Fred has been a frequent contributor to Banker and Tradesman, the established Massachusetts real estate weekly newspaper, and to Inman News, the national real estate website. He is called upon for regular media interviews. He was a longtime member of the Boston's Board's Standard Forms Committee, overseeing the language in the standard printed forms used for offers and purchase & sale agreements.

Uniquely among Cambridge Realtors, Mr. Meyer has a state license as a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser (Mass. license #637). Over the years, he has taken many intensive appraisal courses with Bentley College, the Appraisal Institute, and the MA. Board of Real Estate Appraisers.

The firm is a member of the Realty Guild, an organization of the most active independent real-estate offices in 80 Massachusetts cities and towns, with more than 1,000 agents and $4.5 billion in annual home sales. It is also affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (RELO), the largest realty-brokerage organization, with 5,500 locally-owned offices, 160,000 sales associates, and over $400 billion in annual sales.

He is a 1959 graduate of Yale University, and also attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School. Since 1972, he and his family have occupied their single-family house at 83 Hammond St., a block from Harvard's graduate-school campus. He walks to work in Harvard Square.