…in mid 2003 with the real estate market booming, a team of local agents with a nationally-recognized brand name brokerage had it's monthly team meeting and realized that the continued payout of high fees to a company left the team with less revenue to dedicate to clients and customer service…additionally, the rules and franchise mindset made creativity and customization nearly impossible – there had to be a better way.
Late Summer 2003, the team locates a building in a great location:
right on route 260 in downtown Owings, in the heart of the town center, yet close enough to routes 2 and 4 to service Anne Arundel, Chesapeake and North Beach, PG and Calvert counties. The building was an older duplex, constructed in the 1950’s, very much in need of repair – with a lot of hard work, we were open for business on January 1, 2004 as (then) Home Towne Team Select!
With a shift to an independent brokerage, we were able to forge our own path, offering 5% full service listings, custom flat-fee listing services, technological advances and much more. With our innovative offerings to our clients, lower fees and a more agent-friendly atmosphere, our agents have more funds to devote to each client, and more time to spend in the community and with family. In time, we’ve grown from a team mentality to that of, in 2008, a $100 million company.
In the intervening years we’ve been fortunate enough to attract a great many agents, wonderful partners and an ever-growing list of former, current, and future home owners in the Southern Maryland region! In a short amount of time we’ve grown from a small team to the area’s largest and fastest growing independent real estate brokerage, and we have no intention of slowing down! Soon we will open our sixth office, welcome our 150
th salesperson to the Home Towne Family, open our own training university, and launch our commercial and international relocation divisions. (Our Training University and Relocation Divisions are up and running as of 9/08).
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