Keller Williams adds 21, opens downtown Plymouth office

metromode, 3/26/2009

This might be the worst real-estate market in generations, but you can’t tell from the way Keller Williams Plymouth-Canton is growing.

The firm recently added 21 new people to its staff and opened a new office in downtown Plymouth. The company also has big growth plans in the near term, which could mean lots of new jobs.

"That's our big goal," says Lesley Aiello, team leader and broker for Keller Williams Plymouth-Canton. "We're at a total of 89 agents right now. We'd like to be at 110 by the end of this year and 150 within three years."

And that's while real-estate brokerages are closing left and right -- in a time when the term "foreclosure" rolls off the tongue too easily. They recently added almost a dozen new members from a rival brokerage specializing in Plymouth, including a Crain's Power Seller of the Year. Those 11 people are heading up the new downtown office.

"They wanted a presence downtown," Aiello says. "It was very important for them to get a great location."

The firm has done that by restructuring its pay package, enabling its agents to work with less debt.

"I think Keller Williams was a little bit ahead of the pack as far as package pay and carrying debt," Aiello says.

Source: Lesley Aiello, team leader and broker for Keller Williams Plymouth Canton
Writer: Jon Zemke

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