Matt Curtis Real Estate announces recent awards

MADISON—Huntsville Madison County Chamber of Commerce held its Small Business Awards night Aug. 14, and Matt Curtis Real Estate was awarded the Service Business of the Year out of a field of 10 finalists.

The company received the award based on exceptional service given to clients in northern Alabama and volunteerism service of building a home in Nicaragua for every 100 homes sold in the Tennessee Valley.

The Huntsville Madison County Chamber of Commerce serves to foster economic growth in the local community and offers a number of programs to serve local entrepreneurs. This year was the 33rd Annual Small Business Awards, and companies throughout northern Alabama took part. There were 13 award categories.

This is the first year Matt Curtis Real Estate has been awarded Service Business of the Year.

Matt Curtis said he was ecstatic to be sharing the award with his team. “We are honored to represent Huntsville with this prestigious award as the 2018 Service Business of the year,” Curtis said. “As a previous winner of Madison’s Best Overall Business, Home and Living Business of the Year and the Leadership and Service Award, we are honored to have won the top business awards in the two major cities we serve – Huntsville and Madison.”

Curtis became a real estate agent in 2006 and started out in new home sales. In 2010 he opened the doors to Matt Curtis Real Estate Inc. and brought on his first employee in 2012. Since that time, his business has seen tremendous growth, and the company growth has exploded with 252 percent growth over the past three years. The Madison business now has 53 team members and is continuing to grow in size.

Matt Curtis Real Estate was also recently named as one of America’s fastest-growing companies, according to the INC 5000. This year, Matt Curtis Real Estate was ranked No. 1,791 out of 5,000 companies, up from a ranking of 2,342 out of 5000 in August 2017.

The INC 5000 is selected yearly by INC Magazine to rank, privately-held small businesses throughout the United States.

The yearly ranking measures yearly revenue and number of employees, and companies must meet minimum requirements to be selected for the list.