Other prize winners

announced that evening included:

- For the second

straight year, Roger Searcy of Re/Max Advantage received

a trip for two to the King and Prince Hotel on St. Simons

Island as the broker from the office selling the most

Knight homes during the year.

- Erika Sowell of

Re/Max Advantage, last year's grand prize winner, this

time received a weekend for two at the King and Prince as

the Realtor registering the most prospects during the

year.

- Keith Burley of Real

Estate Investment Centers Inc. won the drawing for a $250

prize from the names of agents selling Knight homes

during the year.

Chris Knight, vice

president of The Knight Group, pointed out that 1998

marked the firm's 20th year in business and that the

company has built more than 2,500 homes, almost all of

them in the south side area where the firm is based.

"Nineteen ninety-eight

also marked another award-winning year for The Knight

Group," he reported."For the second year in a

row and the fifth time in the '90s we won the $100,000

and under Best Building Design Professionalism Award.

This `Knights of the Roundtable' promotion also won a

Silver Professionalism Award for Best Realtor Promotion

given by the Atlanta housing industry,' The Knight Group

was recognized for the second year in a row by Quality

Builders Warranty with the `Mark of Excellence' award

recognizing excellence in customer service -

exhibiting our commitment to the customer long after the

sale."

Thanking the Realtor

community for helping make this possible, he said,

"In addition to our dedicated sales staff, we enjoy

incredible support from you, the Realtor community. Last

year, 53 percent of our home sales were in cooperation

with you and your co-workers - a number which we

consider exceptional."

He announced that the

company looks forward to 1999 as its best sales year

ever. "Adding to our current portfolio of

neighborhoods, we will open Meadow Glen in Fairburn,

Riverbend Overlook in DeKalb, and Poplar Pointe in

Griffin, which should be open by April. With this

collection of homes, we should surpass our greatest sales

year ever by at least 10 percent," he said.

Prior to announcing the

prize winners, Jay Knight, president, introduced his

father and uncle, Perry and Scott Knight, who started the

company 20 years ago; and his grandmother Mildred Knight.

He also introduced Mary

Wineland, broker for Knight Realty; and the company's

superintendents, including Jamie Cagle, Pleasant Grove

and Summerlake; Danny Dudley, Glynn Addy; Matt McConnell,

Biscayne Pointe; and Chris Taylor, Harbour Town at

River's Edge Plantation.

Noting that the annual

event is conducted to thank the real estate community for

its support of The Knight Group, he said the company is

"shooting for 70 percent" co-op sales in the

years ahead," adding that "We want to be on

your list of places to show your customers."

Last year was the fourth

year that the company has conducted its "Knights of

the Roundtable" Realtor promotion.

The Knight Group, formerly

known as Knight Development, is a family business with

offices in Jonesboro. The company had its beginning in

1973, when brothers Scott and Perry Knight starting

framing houses for area builders.

The Knight brothers got

into the home building business in the late 1970s.

Perry's son Jay and Scott's son Chris now hold top

management positions in the company.

At the present time, the

company is building approximately 250 homes a year and is

currently active in Henry, Clayton, South Fulton,

Spalding and DeKalb counties.

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