Long & Foster Chairman Cited as One of Nation’s Top 25 ?Most Influential?

Realtor Magazine honors Wes Foster for work in residential real estate
Realtor Magazine honors Wes Foster for work in residential real estate

RISMEDIA, December 11, 2006?P. Wesley Foster, Jr., founder and chairman of The Long & Foster Companies, was named this month as one of real estate’s 25 most ?influential thought leaders. The list was compiled by Realtor Magazine with nominations directly from select brokers, association executives, and industry watchers. Editors reduced the list of nominees to an impressive group of 25. As stated in the Realtor Magazine article, these men and women are leaders who are reshaping how the real estate industry functions?today and into the future.

Wes Foster was chosen according to Realtor Magazine ?because he saw early on that bigger meant stronger and more competitive in the highly fragmented residential real estate industry. The article described Wes Foster as having spent almost 40 years besting the big guys until he?s become one himself.

?Long & Foster is today the largest independently owned real estate company in the country with 250 sales offices and some 18,000 sales associates in the Mid-Atlantic region. He?s also kept one step ahead of competitors by recognizing the next new thing. He was a pioneer in combining brokerage, mortgage, Insurance, and title services into a one-stop shopping experience for consumers. These days Long & Foster is again challenging competitors with a new interactive Web site that includes a digital planner to save home searches and documents,? the article said.

For more information, visit Realtor.org.

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