Long & Foster Real Estate, the largest privately-owned residential real estate company in the United States, welcomes Alyssa Larkin to its Strawberry Street office in Richmond, Virginia. Larkin will specialize in working with homebuyers and sellers.

“We are very excited and fortunate to have Alyssa join our team of highly trained professionals,” said John Martin, manager of the Strawberry Streetoffice. “The combination of Long & Foster and Alyssa’s unique skills and knowledge will no doubt provide the highest level of service to local buyers and sellers.”

Larkin is participating in Long & Foster’s Success Path program, which offers extensive training and resources for agents at any stage of their career. The program’s curriculum includes tools for agents to build their business, mentor-style programs, techniques for prospecting and working with buyers and sellers, skills for negotiating, and more. Larkin holds membership in the Richmond Association of Realtors.

“Long & Foster’s long standing reputation of excellence and its family feel are what brought me to join,” Larkin said. “I am very excited to be working with people who share my love of the Richmond area.”

“The dynamics of today’s residential real estate market are constantly changing. Taking part in our Success Path program has provided Alyssa with the right tools to meet those changing dynamics,” said Gary Scott, president of Long & Foster Real Estate. “We welcome Alyssa to Long & Foster, a company that has helped local buyers and sellers reach their homeownership goals for more than 45 years.”

Larkin holds an English degree from James Madison University, inHarrisonburg, Virginia. She resides in Richmond with her husband.

For more information, visit LongandFoster.com.

About Long & Foster^® Real Estate

Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., is the largest privately-owned residential real estate company in the United States. The company is part of The Long & Foster Companies, which also includes Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, Long & Foster Insurance and Long & Foster Settlement Services. Long & Foster Real Estate is the exclusive affiliate for Christie’s International Real Estate throughout select parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and it is a founding affiliate of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a prestigious global network of real estate professionals that includes the Luxury Portfolio International division.

Long & Foster Real Estate has over 220 offices, stretching from Raleigh, N.C., to Princeton, N.J., and from Charles Town, W.Va., to the Atlantic Ocean, and it represents more than 11,000 agents in seven Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, plus the District of Columbia. The company, which has a productive commercial business in addition to its residential side, sold more than $31.4 billion worth of homes and helped people buy and sell homes nearly 90,000 times in 2015. The combined sales and equivalents for The Long & Foster Companies in 2015 were in excess of $56.8 billion. Visitwww.LongandFoster.com for more information.