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Long & Foster

Type
  
Corporation

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Key people
  
P. Wesley Foster, JR., Long & Foster Companies Chairman, Chief Executive Officer George T. Eastment III, Vice Chairman Jeffrey S. Detwiler, President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Scott, President, Long & Foster Real Estate Larry "Boomer" Foster, President, Long & Foster Real Estate Patrick Bain, President, Long & Foster Insurance Bruce Enger, Senior Vice President & CFO Terry Dwyer, Senior Vice President & CIO Barry S. Redler, Senior Vice President & CMO Tim Wilson, President, CEO, Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC Michael Maddiex, President, Long & Foster Settlement Services Joe Amatangelo, President, Long & Foster Property Management

Headquarters
  
Chantilly, Virginia, United States

CEO
  
P. Wesley Foster, Jr. (1968–)

Founded
  
1968, Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Long & Foster Real Estate is the nation's largest privately owned real estate company and the largest global affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate. Long & Foster has more than 11,000 agents in over 220 sales offices in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. It is part of The Long & Foster Companies, a family of businesses in the real estate and financial services industries.

P. Wesley "Wes" Foster, Jr., founded the company in 1968, and he currently serves as the chief executive officer and chairman. Foster began his real estate career in 1963 as a sales manager at Minchew Corporation, a home building company. In 1966, he moved to Nelson Realty as vice president of sales. In 1968, he founded Long & Foster with Henry Long. Long & Foster began with Foster handling the residential real estate arm of the business and Long handling the commercial side. Foster became the sole owner in July 1979, 11 years after establishing Long & Foster.

Long & Foster has offices and associates in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina. The company has six major lines of business that support buying, selling and owning real estate including the sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties and land; mortgage, title and settlement services, insurance and home warranties, property management, vacation rentals and corporate real estate services for relocation and business development.

References

Long & Foster Wikipedia