The only organization recognizing Atlanta real estate companies for excellence in website design, the HBA has been promoting, protecting and preserving homeownership in the greater Atlanta area since its inception in 1945.ÊHBA is an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders, headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Presented at HBA's Professionalism Awards banquet at the Georgia World Congress Center in November, the award has already made a permanent home in the trophy case at Metro Brokers' corporate headquarters, next to the last three year's trophies.

During the last year, Metro Brokers became the first Atlanta real estate company to successfully launch an appointment setting tool that allows homebuyers to schedule a showing while viewing a listing online. As a result, Metro Brokers has generated more than 2,000 showing requests, a figure that's 30 percent higher than the national average of other real estate companies.

Metrobrokers.com remains the most popular website in Atlanta, with an average of 6 million hits and 15,000 unique visitors per week. The average visitor session, or time spent on the site, is more than 29 minutes, a lifetime in the online world.

Metro Brokers also took home a silver award for Best Print Ad, 4-Color for Bramlett Meadows, a new 161-home community priced from the $130s to $160s off Ridge Road in Paulding County.

Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate has almost tripled in size in three years with more than 1,500 full-time sales associates and 18 metro Atlanta offices.

Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate, established in 1979, offers a wide range of real estate services including residential and commercial sales; pre- and post-license training; corporate relocation; new home sales and marketing; and insurance, mortgage and title/closing services. The company's real estate academy is also the number one broker-owned real estate school in Georgia.

To contact Metro Brokers, call 404-843-2500 or visit metrobrokers.com .

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