November 21

LONG & FOSTER DOMINATES TOP HONORS IN FIRST NATIONAL RANKINGS BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND REAL TRENDS

Long & Foster Sales Teams Take Four of top Seven Places Nationwide

Fairfax, VA - In the inaugural “Real Estate Top 200,” a sales ranking sponsored by The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends, real estate professionals affiliated with Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. took several of the top honors in “The Real Estate Top 200”. The awards were announced recently at the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Annual Conference and Expo. in New Orleans, La. The 200 winners were chosen from nearly 2,000 submissions from real estate professionals representing hundreds of markets nationwide. To understand just how elite the agents on the Top 200 List are,

Creig Northrop

it is important to note that, there are over 1.35 million real estate agents in the United States according to the National Association of Realtors .

Of the top seven teams named based on dollar volume, four were from Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. They are:, The Creig Northrop Team, Clarksville, Md. ($406,000,000) second place; The Ron Rush Team, Fairfax, Va. ($303,459,272) third place; The Mark Fleisher Team, Washington, D.C. ($277,668,448) fifth place; and The Debbie Dogrul Team, Fairfax, Va. ($271,796,271) seventh place. Other teams in the top ten were from brokerages in California, Nevada, and New York.

Ron Rush

Mark Fleisher

Debbie Dogrul

Also in the top 200 and in 26th place was The Long & Foster Team of Yerman, Berman, Witman and Gaines, Lutherville, Md. ($166,000,000) and in 35th place was the Virgilio Vasquez Team, Herndon, Va. ($147,540,522).

Nancy Itteilag

In the individual agent category, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.’s Nancy Itteilag, of the firm’s Foxhall Office, ranked 29th with sales of $98,715,444.

“I congratulate these men and women who are among an extraordinarily impressive group of real estate professionals,” said Wes Foster, chairman of The Long & Foster Companies. “We are very proud to have so many Long & Foster people in this elite group at the pinnacle of our profession,” Foster concluded.

REAL Trends, Inc. is a publishing and communications company based in Denver, Colorado, considered to be a leading source of analysis and information on the residential real estate industry.

The Long & Foster® Companies is comprised of Long & Foster® Real Estate, Inc., Prosperity Mortgage® Company, Long & Foster Settlement Services, Long & Foster Insurance Agency, Inc., and VISION Relocation Group™. The firm also has the following divisions: commercial, new homes, property management, leasing services, relocation services, resort rentals, and the Home Service Connections® group.

Long & Foster® Real Estate, Inc. is the largest privately-owned real estate firm in America. The firm has 237 residential real estate sales offices throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Delaware, West Virginia, New Jersey, and North Carolina, with 16,000 Sales Associates and annual real estate sales for 2005 of $44.6 billion. Sales for all The Long & Foster Companies totaled $65.8 billion for 2005.

November 21, 2006