ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2025--
Curbio, the nation’s leading residential general contractor that exclusively prepares homes for sellers and buyers, today announced that Engel & Völkers Atlanta is its newest Powered by Curbio brokerage partner. Executives of both companies joined E&V advisors and Curbio’s local project management team in midtown Atlanta yesterday to celebrate the launch of their partnership.
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“Curbio is thrilled to partner with Engel & Völkers Atlanta to help their sellers and buyers prepare their homes for sale and move-in,” said Matthew Siegal, Curbio’s co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. “Now E&V advisors can help their clients repair, update, and stage their homes without having to deal with scheduling, sourcing materials, and managing projects.”
The new E&V Elevate service gives advisors a simple process for requesting a proposal for home services projects of any size. Whenever an advisor has a seller or buyer whose home needs work, the advisor can use the Curbio/E&V Elevate app to request a free, next-day property walkthrough and a detailed, fixed-price proposal.
“We are excited to be partnering with Curbio on E&V Elevate, a great new service that helps our clients and advisors position their clients’ property in the best condition from the first day it hits the market. Buyers in today’s market are seeking properties that are move-in ready and in great shape. This new service will allow us to work with our sellers and buyers to accomplish their goals and be proud of the final results. We feel this brings added value to our clients and customers,” said Chris Burell, Chief Growth Officer for Engel & Völkers Atlanta.
Curbio is a residential general contractor whose only business is preparing homes for sellers and buyers. The company operates in dozens of U.S. markets from coast-to-coast, and 100% of its customers are referred by their real estate agents. Thousands of realtors recommend Curbio to their clients. Although the company offers the full range of interior and exterior services, it has built its reputation on providing services that traditional contractors overlook. These include staging; deep cleaning; replacing outdated light bulbs, doorbells, thermostats, and other tech; and money-saving services like refacing cabinets and glazing tubs and tile.
For more information about Curbio, including how to become a Powered by Curbio brokerage partner, call 844-944-2629 or visit curbio.com.
Christa Huffstickler, Founder and CEO of Engel & Völkers Atlanta (left); Matthew Siegal, Co-Founder of Curbio (center); and Chris Burell, Chief Growth Officer of Engel & Völkers Atlanta (right)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Madison Chock and Evan Bates danced their way to a record-setting seventh U.S. Figure Skating title on Saturday night, showcasing their trademark creativity, athleticism and precision in their final competition before the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Now, the countdown is on for the moment they have waited for the past four years.
“We like to build momentum through the season,” Bates said, “and it's a great feeling going into a big event knowing you skated well the previous event. So we're going to roll with that momentum into Milan.”
Chock and Bates have dominated ice dance ever since they finished fourth at the Beijing Games, arguably the most disappointing and frustrating placement for any Olympian. They have won the past three world titles, the past three gold medals at the Grand Prix Final, and they have nobody within sight of them when it comes to competing against fellow Americans.
Performing a flamenco-styled dance to a version of the Rolling Stones hit “Paint It Black” from the dystopian sci-fi Western drama “Westworld,” Chock and Bates produced a season-best free skate inside Enterprise Center and finished with 228.87 points.
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik were second with 213.65 points and Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko were third with 206.95, making those two pairs the likely choices to join Chock and Bates on the American squad for the Winter Games.
There wasn’t much drama in the dance competition.
At least for the top step.
Yet sometimes the winning programs aren’t necessarily the ones that win over the crowd. And while Oona Brown and Gage Brown only finished fifth, the sister-brother duo — former world junior champions — earned the first standing ovation of the night for their moody, creative and almost cinematic program set to selections from the film “The Godfather.”
“I think that was one of the best — if not the best — performances we’ve had,” Gage Brown said afterward.
The Browns ended a stretch in which several couples taking the ice made some kind of significant mistake, whether it was a skater stumbling to the ice, someone getting out of synch with their twizzles, or some other calamitous misfortune.
Then it was a parade of near-perfect programs, each couple trying to upstage the previous one.
Emily Bratti and Ian Somerville were the first to knock the Brown siblings from first place, then reigning bronze medalists Caroline Green and Michael Parsons took over first place with their program, set to “Escalate” by Tsar B and “Son of Nyx” by Hozier.
Carreira and Ponomarenko, the U.S. silver medalists the past two years, knew a podium spot would probably earn them a spot on the Olympic team when they took the ice. And they delivered with a sharp program in which they seemed to channel the feeling and the characters from the 2006 psychological thriller film “Perfume: The Story of a Murder.”
“We had a bit of a rocky start to this season,” said Carreira, who was born in Canada but receiver her U.S. citizenship in November, making her eligible to compete at the Olympics. “I'm happy we got our act together and delivered a good performance here.”
It wound up being good enough for bronze.
That's because the 23-year-old Zingas, who made the difficult witch from singles to dance about four years ago, and the 24-year-old Kolesnik quickly assumed the top spot with a program set to music by Sergei Prokofiev from the ballet of “Romeo and Juliet.”
“It hasn't been an easy journey,” Zingas said, “and I think our unique approach to this season, and our unique style on the ice, really helped us, and it's really an emotional moment to be sitting here.”
Zingas and Kolesnik only held the top spot for about four minutes — the length of the free skate by Chock and Bates.
It almost seemed to be a forgone conclusion that they would win Saturday night. But the real pressure now begins: Chock and Bates finished eighth at the 2014 Olympics, ninth four years later, and came in fourth at the Winter Games in 2022.
Yes, they helped the Americans win team gold in Beijing, but even that was somewhat tainted. They never got a medal ceremony there because of a long investigation into Russian doping, which pushed their presentation all the way to the 2024 Summer Games.
They would love to help the U.S. win another team gold. But their target is unquestionably the ice dance title itself.
“It’s going to be a lot more of what it has been — we know what to do, we have our plan and we’re executing,” Chock said. “We don’t plan on deviating from it. We’re going to stick to it. Trust ourselves, trust our team and do what we know to do.”
AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko skate during the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik skate during the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik react to their scores after the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Madison Chock and Evan Bates watch for scores after finishing the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Madison Chock and Evan Bates skate during the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
