Melissa Lockwood, a sales associate with Long & Foster Real Estate’s Perry Hall office, has earned the Accredited Buyer’s Representative designation. Long & Foster is the largest privately owned residential real estate company in the United States.

Awarded by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors, the ABR designation recognizes that Lockwood has a unique understanding of homebuyers needs and how to best serve them, specialized information to stay on top of home buying issues and trends, and exclusive resources to share with their clients that provides her with a greater competitive edge in today’s market.

“My approach to the business is acting as a consultant who educates and guides my clients in order to help them move forward with their lives. Acting as their trusted advisor, my purpose is to help them make good decisions that are best for their family,” Lockwood said.

A Realtor since 2007, Lockwood has been affiliated with Long & Foster’s Perry Hall office for nine years, acting as a mentor for new sales associates, as well as serving as a member of the Operations and Efficiency Team. She is a member of Long & Foster’s prestigious Silver Team and Director’s Club in addition to being a recipient of numerous awards for her outstanding customer service.

Lockwood is a member of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors and serves on the Professional Standards Committee. She currently resides in Parkville, Maryland, with her husband, Andy, and their two dogs and chinchillas.

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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. Visit www.LongandFoster.com for more information.