Mark Spain Real Estate Ranks No. 16 on 2018 University of Georgia Bulldog 100 Awards

ATLANTA - Feb. 28, 2018 - PRLog -- Mark Spain Real Estate, founded by namesake and UGA graduate Mark Spain (BBA'93), serves metro Atlanta, Athens, Ga. and, starting in 2018, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC. This is the company's first time being named to the Bulldog 100.

"We are proud UGA supporters—whether it is on game day on Saturdays in the fall or manning our booth at career fairs, scouting for great talent for our company. We love the UGA family and are so pleased to have more than a dozen UGA grads from various degree tracks working for our company," explains Chairman and CEO Mark Spain. "Being named to the Bulldog 100 is a real honor. For years I have celebrated so many of my friends and fellow Bulldogs as I saw their companies win the award. It is truly humbling to be named to this group of champions. The University of Georgia, the city of Athens and the clients we serve are very near and dear to my heart."

The Bulldog 100, an award program coordinated by the UGA Alumni Association, recognizes the 100 fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA graduates. More than 500 nominations were submitted for the 2018 Bulldog 100.

Honorees include companies of all sizes, providing services and products in a variety of industries, including real estate, retail, interior design, IT and consulting. Companies based across the nation made the list. The average, compounded annual growth rate for this year's Bulldog 100 businesses was 47 percent. Mark Spain Real Estate (http://www.MarkSpain.com)'s residential gross sales grew by more than $100 million over the previous year and the firm had a record sale year.

To view the 2018 Bulldog 100 list or nominate a business for the 2019 Bulldog 100, visit http://www.alumni.uga.edu/b100.

About Mark Spain Real Estate (MSRE):

Mark Spain Real Estate is an industry-leading estate firm with offices throughout the southeast. Prior to forming his own independent firm in January 2016, Mark Spain and his team were annually the No. 1 ranked large team for sales production with the Atlanta Realtors Association for more than 10 consecutive years and annually appeared in the top 10 of the REAL Trends/Wall Street Journal list of America's top 1,000 agents and teams. In 2017, Mark Spain Real Estate sold a record $550 million in real estate, helping 2,318 clients sell or purchase a home. Mark Spain has sold more than $3 billion in collective gross sales for his career. In addition, MSRE is the No. 1 most reviewed real estate company on Zillow in the entire United States.

MSRE was honored in spring 2017 as one of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Top Places to Work. In July, Mark Spain and his team earned the No. 2 ranking in the U.S. for closed transactions on "The Thousand (https://www.realtrends.com/rankings/rt1000/) Top Real Estate Professionals (https://www.realtrends.com/rankings/rt1000/)," a national awards ranking, sponsored annually by REAL Trends and advertised in The Wall Street Journal. In September, Inc. Magazine ranked MSRE No. 2,097 on its annual Inc. 5000 List, a ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. This award joins a growing list of accolades for MSRE, including an Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC) Pacesetter Award and now the Bulldog 100 Award.