Michael Muren

Mike Muren’s career began in real estate sales. Mike put a detailed business plan into effect complete with goals, budgets, and innovative marketing plans as well as systems for data management, transaction management, and customer service. Those systems, combined with his determination, allowed him to succeed from the beginning of his career. His efforts did not go unnoticed, as his real estate sales success was featured on HGTV’s ‘House Hunters’ series and featured by the National Association of Realtors as one of the top 30 Realtors in the nation under 30 years of age. Articles on Mike's career in real estate have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Baltimore Sun, Realtor Magazine, and countless local and regional publications. Mike’s success in real estate sales is the direct effect of hard work and a genuine care for his customers. His facilitation of thousands of real estate transactions gives him a unique insight and the ability to foresee and quickly navigate the challenges that can arise during a real estate transaction.

In 2007 Mike began integrating other agents into his business plan, building a team of professionals focused on providing exceptional customer service. This new business structure allowed Mike to share his real estate success with like-minded colleagues and gave him the ability to also focus on other facets of the real estate industry. In 2013 Mike founded the Premier Group of Long & Foster Real Estate and Christies International Real Estate. This quickly allowed him to cultivate a large-scale organization of team members united by infrastructure and administrative support that is so uncommon in the real estate industry. These tools have allowed the Premier Group to grow rapidly while maintaining the highest standards of client satisfaction. In 2016 the Premier Group was the 2nd highest producing real estate group in the state of MD with the largest independently owned real estate brokerage in the US and they have only continued to grow.

Over the years Mike has worked closely with a variety of home builders to find development opportunities, produce floor plans, and outline successful marketing strategies. Mike has managed sales for more than a dozen communities ranging in size, price, and location. His insight in the process allows him to fill the gaps for builders and developers where they need help without charging for the services they already have. This has allowed Mike and members of his team to integrate seamlessly with their builder and developer clients.

Working closely with home builders gave Mike a unique position of seeing both the construction side and the sales side of new home construction. For builders constituting less than 100 homes per year, transparency of information between the builder’s sales and construction team has always been a problem.
After observing the industry-wide inefficiencies, Mike partnered with an acclaimed designer to find a solution. In 2015, Builders National Cooperative (BNC) was formed.
Builders National Cooperative "BNC" provides home builders and real estate developers outsourced plans and operations services. With BNC you can have all the tools and systems a large home builder has without spending years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop them. This includes creation of production-structurally engineered plans, procurement of all individual costs for each component used in every plan, entry of all collected data into production builder software and development of a full scope of work for each trade. BNC is now expanding into new markets and its builders are currently delivering a new home every few days. Using BNC, builder clients operate more efficiently, and more cost effectively than they ever had on their own. BNC has allowed the Premier Group to grow faster and create even more sophisticated marking tools that benefit all the agents is the office and their resale clients.

With this experience Mike decided to try his hand at building. He purchased a building lot in Walkersville in 2017 and constructed his first home. The home sold within a week and Mike continued to repeat the process. After having gained more hands-on experience Mike decided to offer these services to customers so they could build homes with him on a lot of their choice. In 2019, Mike founded Laine Street Homes. With modern open house plans and easy-to-understand prices, clients can quickly and easily choose selections online- making the process of building a new home seamless and transparent. In addition, the collective volume and efficiencies achieved through BNC allow Laine Street Home to pay less for all the products and services than independent small builders. These savings are passed along to the homebuyer making this a win for everyone.