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The Long & Foster® Companies is the largest, most respected real estate services firm in our seven-state, Mid-Atlantic region. Our big market share, combined with our commitment to personalized customer service, reap big benefits for our buyers and sellers. We’re present in most neighborhoods in the region - you might have noticed one of our For Sale signs near you.

For 36 years, customers and clients in our area have turned to us for expert real estate advice and unmatched customer service. And they choose us for our leading mortgage, title, and insurance services as well.

Record Growth
Blessed with more than 14,000 hardworking, highly-professional Sales Associates and a staff of 2,100 dedicated and resourceful employees, and blessed, too, with a market area that is growing quickly in good jobs, good incomes, population, and housing, The Long & Foster® Companies continued its upward trajectory of unprecedented growth during the year 2004.

…Benefiting Our Customers
Long & Foster is the top-producing real estate company in our seven-state, Mid-Atlantic region. We use our dominant market to provide our buyers with massive selection of homes for sale to choose from, and sellers can place their home in front of the largest pool of potential buyers available.

An Industry Leader - Small Company Values
We have come miles and miles since our founding in 1968, w hen Long & Foster was just a small office in Fairfax, Virginia. Yet, even with our success and record growth, we still provide the kind of old-fashioned customer service that has been our trademark since the beginning. We are locally owned and managed, and every move we make is with our clients' and customers' best interests at heart.

Industry - Best Sales Associates Working For You
By providing our Sales Associates with the full power of The Long & Foster® Companies and our Prestige Partners®, Long & Foster gives them the training and the tools they need to serve their clients and customers better than anyone else. This service superiority provides an ever-increasing number of referrals and repeat business that further widens the competitive gap and grows market share. Long & Foster is committed to providing the most professional real estate and related financial services— mortgage, title, and insurance— available through one convenient and financially stable source: The Long & Foster Companies.

Long & Foster: Mission Statement
Founded on a bedrock of integrity and innovation, honesty and good old-fashioned customer service, Long & Foster Real Estate’s corporate mission is to provide the most professional residential real estate services and related financial services — mortgage, title, and insurance — available through one convenient and financially stable source. Long & Foster honors its sales associates and enhances their professionalism and commitment to excellence with superior training, sophisticated marketing, and state-of-the-art technology, resulting in both unsurpassed service to the consumer and a true feeling of family within the company. Long & Foster is successful because its people are.