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The companies will operate with their respective brands via an LLC that will serve as the parent company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new entity will have 1,400 agents. According to a press release, the firm\u2019s combined market share in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/amazon-launches-program-for-real-estate-developers-of-color\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Middle Tennessee<\/a> will equal about 15%, nearly twice as much as the percentage figure of any area competitor in the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillepost.com\/business\/development\/parks-pilkerton-village-merge\/article_6a3a2ee2-6f2e-11ec-9a12-53ad14c96ab1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nashville Post<\/a>, &#8220;The merger comes one year after the January 2021 announcement that Parks and Village finalized what had been a long-planned union (read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillepost.com\/business\/development\/parks-village-finalize-merger-stalled-by-pandemic\/article_935b965e-8964-57a6-9c0d-175cfba4cc79.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>). 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