FROM STAFF REPORTS

Lake Homes Realty, the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company, has expanded its brokerage operations to six additional states, moving the company into the western United States for the first time and bringing the number of states in their corporate footprint to 24.

“2018 was a fantastic year for Lake Homes Realty,” said CEO Glenn S. Phillips. “In the last 12 months, we’ve relocated to a larger corporate headquarters, hired additional upper management, and through the year added eight new states to our market footprint.”

In addition to Maine and Florida added in the first half of 2018, Lake Homes Realty expanded brokerage operations most recently into Vermont, Nebraska, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky and Louisiana.

“We are looking forward to bringing the power of our brand deeper into the West as we grow into even more states in the 2019,” Phillips said.

Ranked the last two years on the Inc.5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies, the brokerage’s website LakeHomes.com provides a one-stop shop for buyers searching for lake home and land listings.

Though LakeHomes.com is the best online tool for searching available lake properties, the company is not an online brokerage.

“We are a new breed of tech-enabled service companies that fuses the power and convenience of the web with the personal service that can only be provided by our local experts on each lake,” Phillips explained. “This provides a unique advantage to lake real estate buyers and sellers.”

Leveraging the power of technology with the power of people, Lake Homes Realty uses data from nearly 100 MLSs to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date database of lake-access, lake-view and lakefront properties available today. The website also connects home buyer and sellers with lake expert real estate agents who live, and play, in their local markets.

“With each new state we enter, our company is able to better serve the nation’s lake home buyers, sellers,” Phillips said. “Leveraging technology, personal service, and expertise is critical for success as a real estate company today, and we’re proof of that.”