San Luis Obispo Tribune honors Hometown Realty

Century 21 Hometown Realty is a humble company by nature. Like all people and companies we enjoy accolades, and we appreciate the opportunity to express our gratitude to the customers, managers, staff, and our sales associates that all contribute to our business success. As every homeowner knows all too well, the past three years have been brutal  to housing. Families have lost homes. Real Estate brokerages have failed. Lenders have faced government intervention. Everyone has felt economic woe in some way and it is heart wrenching.

When the housing market crashed, our company recognized that to stay vibrant, we needed to accomplish two key strategic goals. The first goal was expansion. We recognized that we needed to diversify our market service areas. Through acquisition and new offices, we now offer 13 locations along the central coast and in Bakersfield. Our agent count expanded from 100 to 300. The second goal was to focus on delivering a wider range of home services to our customers. Hometown Realty is more than a residential real estate company today. We offer our customers access to world class services in commercial real estate, relocation, property management, and have established joint ventures to mortgage and housing related financial services. We are blessed to have so much support from our community in reaching these goals.

Hometown Realty is a Century 21 franchise. Century 21 is largest real estate franchise in the world and is operated by REALOGY, a company that operates franchises for Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Sotheby’s, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, and ERA. This year, Century 21 recognized our company as the fastest growing real estate company in the world out of 7500 brokerages. In the past 3 years, the company has become one of the 500 largest brokerages in America across all franchise and independent brands.

We sincerely appreciate the San Luis Obsipo Tribunes’ article about our company which follows below.

A local Century 21 franchise has grown to 13 offices from two in less than three years, earning an award from its parent company for being the fastest growing franchise in the firm’s nationwide system.

Because Century 21 Hometown Realty was a break-even company in 2008, said CEO and Grover Beach resident Jack Hardy, “what we needed to do to survive was attack the market.”