Metro Brokers top selling Atlanta broker in 2006

After seven years of unprecedented Atlanta real estate market share growth, Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate is now the top selling broker in metro Atlanta.

The company conducted more buyerbrokered transactions – 5,445 – than any other company in the 22-county Atlanta metropolitan statistical area in 2006. Metro Brokers was also the only company among the top five residential brokerage companies to post positive market share growth in buyer-brokered sales during 2006.

Overall, Metro Brokers remains the fastest growing residential real estate company over the last seven years in both listings sold and buyer-brokered sales.

Metro Brokers' transaction growth since 2000 is 9.5%, while every other company in the top five has lost market share over the same period including 27% and 55% declines by Re/Max Greater Atlanta and Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, respectively.

Metro Brokers remains the market share leader by a wide margin south of I-20, where the company closed more than twice as many transactions as the next closest competitor. Metro Brokers is also the market share leader in the two specific Southside counties, Douglas and Henry.

There were numerous individual areas in which Metro Brokers experienced marketleading growth in 2006. Those areas include: Cobb, Intown Atlanta—including Buckhead, Candler Park, Midtown, Morningside, Virginia-Highlands and West Atlanta—Fayette, Newton, North DeKalb, North Fulton, South of I- 20, Spalding and West Cobb.

Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate, established in 1979, has 23 metro Atlanta offices and offers a wide range of real estate services including residential and commercial sales; pre- and post-license training; corporate relocation; new home sales and marketing; and insurance, mortgage and title/closing services.

The company is the largest GMAC Real Estate franchise in the world and the 33rd largest real brokerage company in the country in terms of units sold. The company has more than tripled in size over the last five years with more than 3,000 licensees, making the company the largest license holder in the state of Georgia.

To contact Metro Brokers, call 404.843.2500 or visit metrobrokers.com.