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Excerpt: A slowing housing market and sluggish economy have done little to curb the growth at one locally owned residential real estate firm.

Since opening in December 2005, Mason-based Keller Williams Advisors Realty has grown from an eight-person operation to more than 70 agents.

A franchise of the national firm Keller Williams Realty, the local operation is owned by four agents: Sarah Benza, Carol Meadows, Jerry Garrison and Doug Manzler.

The group ended 2007 with roughly $101 million in sales volume, a 55 percent gain over 2006.