About Avalon Real Estate Partners

Brent Story

Brent Story is the founding partner of Avalon Real Estate Partners, LLC. Over the last eight years, Brent has handled over 100 real estate transactions totaling over $250,000,000 in sales. The majority of these transactions were large raw land tracts for investment and development as well as vacant developed lots and commercial sites. Brent's recent focus has been building one of the premier OREO disposition brokerage companies in the Atlanta MSA at Avalon Real Estate Partners. Brent has assembled a team of qualified real estate brokers that has quickly become one of the top producing land teams in the city. Brent graduated from the University of Georgia in 2000 with a degree in Real Estate from the Terry College of Business. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Brent started his career as a licensed real estate appraiser at McColgan & Company where he worked for several years before getting into the land brokerage business.

Darrell R. Ragan

Darrell has over six years experience in the commercial real estate land brokerage business. In the last five years he has closed over 40 land transactions totaling over $70,000,000 in sales. He was a member of the three-man land team that set the all-time Atlanta record for land transaction volume as recognized by the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors in 2008 with $110,000,000 in sales. Darrell's extensive background in forest & wildlife resources over the last 20 years has made him an extremely valuable asset to have on our land team. His expertise is in the following type of land assets: large recreational/timber investment tracts; residential/single family subdivision tracts; multi-family sites, shopping center sites; commercial outparcels; mixed-use, office, industrial, business park and build-to-suit sites. Darrell graduated from the University of Georgia in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources (BSFR) from the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources as a wildlife biologist. He is a candidate for the prestigious Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) and Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) designations. Darrell is a licensed real estate broker in Georgia & Alabama.

Alexander N. Holt

Alex joined Avalon Real Estate Partners in June of 2010 after having spent the previous two years running his own construction and contracting firm that specialized in site work, grading and clearing. Since arriving at Avalon, Alex has been instrumental in gathering information, inspecting properties, and preparing marketing materials for various asset types. Alex has also been very productive prospecting new business and tracking land sales activity in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Alex is a native Atlantan and received a degree in Economics from University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. Alex is a licensed real estate sales person in the State of Georgia.

Buyers and Sellers We Have Worked With

Banks	Builders	Developers & Investors
Athens First Bank and Trust (AFB&T)	Ashton Woods	Atlanta VDL Fund
Bank of America	Atreus Homes	Brent Scarbrough and Company
Bank of North Georgia	Bowen Family Homes	Core Property Capital
BB&T	Crown Communities	Equity Resource Partners
Colonial Bank	DR Horton	Fairway Capital
First Citizens Bank	John Wieland Homes	Glandon Capital Group
RBC	Legacy Communities	Kolter Communities
Regions Bank	Legendary Communities	Minerva
State Bank and Trust	Lennar Homes	Murchison Commercial Real Estate
Wachovia/Wells Fargo	Piedmont Residential	Resource Real Estate Partners
	Pulte Homes	Sentinel Properties
	Ryland Homes	SF Capital Group
	Smith Douglas Communities	The Pacific Group