Crye-Leike, REALTORS® is a full service real estate company founded in Memphis in 1977. Today it's the nation's 4th largest real estate company and the largest serving markets in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and across the Mid-South. Crye-Leike has a network of more than 4,100 licensed sales associates, 1,200 staff members and 132 branch and franchise offices located in 65 counties throughout an eight-state region in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and North Carolina. Crye-Leike associates are also licensed to sell in Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
In 2007 the company attained sales of $5.7 billion and closed 32,500 transaction sides.
Crye-Leike ranks No. 4 among the nation's top 500 largest residential real estate brokerage firms and No. 3 among the nation's 144 largest privately owned and independent firms, according to REAL Trends, Inc., the leading provider of information and analysis for the residential real estate industry.
The company, founded in Memphis by Harold Crye and Dick Leike in 1977, has a unique corporate structure. Each of the regions it serves is supported by its own Corporate Headquarters. It's the belief of its founders that "the real estate business is local" and thereby each of the company's regions has its own headquarters and a leadership team that's local with the ability to offer a full menu of services and the highest level of customer service.