One of Metro Augusta’s largest real estate firms announced Wednesday that it has doubled the number of agents it has in the field, amid expectations that significant growth at Fort Gordon over the next five years will result in an explosion of home sales and new construction.

Larry Miller, owner of the area’s largest Century 21 Real Estate franchise, said that he has increased his staff from 17 to 40 agents in the past year as part of a goal the firm set in the months before the Army announced it will relocate its Cyber Command to Fort Gordon by 2019.

Army leadership revealed in December that consolidation of the Army Cyber Command, creation of a new Cyber Center of Excellence and growth of cyber mission units at Fort Gordon would increase the regional workforce by 4,000 jobs and bring to the area 5,620 families – almost all of which will live off post.

Miller, who is also the CEO of CSRA Home Connections, said the multimedia marketing campaign that enables local businesses to advertise products and services to homeowners, buyers, sellers and builders throughout the region has increased its membership by 60 percent.

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