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#1 Independent Brokerage in Minnesota - RealTrends 2024

#52 Independent Brokerage in America - RealTrends 2024

#148 Real Estate Brokerage in America - RealTrends 2024

Top 5-Year GameChangers - RealTrends 2022

#168 Top 1000 Power Broker - RISMedia 2022

Realty Group Ranked #13 Among the Fastest-Growing Private Companies - MSP Business Journal 2020

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Realty Group, Others Fuel Growth of Independent Minnesota RE Brokers - StarTribune 2021

Realty Group's expansion comes as independent brokerages across the country are quickly gaining market share as buyers, sellers and their agents embrace new ways of buying and selling homes, including technology that is constantly evolving. Read more

Long Doan: Journey From Oppression To Optimism - Real Estate Agent Magazine 2017

Long’s journey to success was not an easy one, not even close. As a young child he escaped Communist rule in Vietnam. At age 13 he left his family behind in pursuit of freedom in the US. Read the full story written by Real Estate Magazine.

Mike Bernier: A Change of Heart, A Growth of Spirit - Real Estate Magazine Twin Cities 2020

If there are two words that aptly describe Mike Bernier, they would be tenacity and determination. Today, as co-owner and president of Realty Group, Bernier enjoys the rewards of a life of hard work and overcoming monumental hardships and setbacks.

Moving Beyond Yesterday - Minnesota Realtors 2021

Recognized by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of the most admired CEOs in the Twin Cities, Long Doan, founder of Realty Group in Coon Rapids, operates a thriving brokerage with more than 500 agents. And while his success epitomizes the American Dream, his story is rooted in the nightmare of the Vietnam War.

2020 Most Admired CEOs: Long Doan - MSP Business Journal

Doan founded Realty Group in 2009 after spending the first half of his career as a mortgage originator and broker. He and Mike Bernier, Doan’s business partner since 2014, have grown the brokerage to one of the largest in the Twin Cities, with more than 500 agents.

2020 Top 100 People in Real Estate Magazine: Long Doan

Long is a renowned real estate broker and the founder of Realty Group LLC., a full service brokerage based in Minnesota. He founded Realty Group in 2009 and based his business goals on values that he learned from his family who fled Vietnam in the early 1980’s as the country fell under communist rule.

2020 Top 100 People in Real Estate Magazine: Mike Bernier

As president, co-owner, and real estate broker, of Realty Group LLC., Michael Bernier shares a vast number of responsibilities with his business partner, Long Doan. However, Michael also has his own unique role in the company, acting as part visionary and part implementer.

The Home Front - MSP Business Journal 2020

For residential real estate sales, this summer may look a lot like winter. But Realty Group sees an opportunity.

What crisis? For Realty Group, if pain is coming, it’s delayed. - MSP Business Journal 2020

As restaurants and bars closed down in the middle of March to reduce the spread of COVID-19, business for Realty Group was following the usual upward swing that comes with spring in Minnesota.

Emotional Intelligence with Long Doan - MSP Business Journal 2019

Q&A: Realty Group CEO thinks tech is coming for real estate jobs. How to save them? Emotional intelligence.

Hanging with Competitors - Realtor Magazine 2019

Local rivals discuss the value of collaboration, lessons from disruption, and the need to find the right homes for agents.

Realty Group - The Fastest Growing RE Company in MN - SuperbCrew 2019

Check out SuperbCrew’s interview with CEO and Co-owner of Realty Group, Long Doan.

New Year Delivers a Look Back at the U.S Housing Market Collapse - The New York Journal 2019

The New Year brings with it reminders of the positive and negative circumstances New Yorkers have experienced personally and economically throughout 2018.