Mike McMullen is the CEO and Principal of CORE Companies, encompassing Mike McMullen & Associates @ Keller Williams Realty, Prominence Homes, America’s Rental Managers, and Titlecore He also serves as the founder and CEO of each company. Mike specializes in building and inspiring teams that can meet the challenges of the ever-changing build-to-rent (BTR) market. 

The success of Mike’s companies speaks for itself: Mike McMullen & Associates @ Keller Williams Vestavia facilitates over $400 million in real estate sales annually in seventeen countries and thirty-one states. As of 2021, they were ranked the 6th fastest growing company in Birmingham by The Birmingham Business Journal. With a client base of well over 1200 investors and 22 funds, they’ve sold a total of over $2 billion in real estate. 

Previously known as Mike McMullen & Associates, the company joined forces with Keller Williams Vestavia in February 2024 as part of an independent brokerage partnership to form Mike McMullen & Associates @ Keller Williams Vestavia. This alliance came to fruition following McMullen’s decision to step into the retail market in the final quarter of 2023, which resulted in the need of agents to help push inventory out to home buyers. “When you start looking at the people who are performing in the industry, Keller Williams is always at the top,” McMullen said. “They tend to have the top agents, and they tend to have the top sales. It was a great marriage of top-quality people, and I think it’s going to be a great adventure for us and pay off dividends for everyone involved.”

Prominence is one of Alabama’s largest homebuilders. In 2021, the company completed construction on over four hundred new homes and cut the ribbon on close to 600 more. It was named the 3rd fastest-growing company in Birmingham by The Birmingham Business Journal, and over the past two years, has increased revenue by over 200%. 

America’s Rental Managers is one of the largest single-family rental management companies in the Southeast. It manages nearly two thousand single-family homes with a rent collection rate of 97% and an average occupancy rate of 95%. Over the past year, ARM has seen a 27% growth in the number of properties under management and a 37% growth in rent revenue resulting in a 40% growth in total revenue and a 28% growth in NOI.  

In addition to his businesses, Mike personally owns more than a hundred single and multi-family properties as well as land developments and subdivisions. He has over twenty years of experience in real estate sales, construction, and rental management.

In 2008, RE/MAX named Mike the number one real estate agent in the southern six-state region based on total number of transactions. He has been an active member of the Forbes Real Estate Council since 2019, was honored as a panel speaker at IMN Single Family Rental Forum East, IMN Single Family Rental Forum West, and as a member of the Empowered Investor Network Conference in Orlando, FL. A regular contributor to Forbes, Mike is the author of the business book Build. Rent. Sell. Repeat! and the subject of the recent REI Ink magazine article: "Build to Rent in a Brave New World." 

Mike earned a Business Administration degree from Auburn University where he majored in Management with minor concentrations in Accounting and Finance. He obtained a Juris Doctorate degree in 1999, and lives in Birmingham, AL with his wife Katie, his daughters Emma & Anna Claire, and the family’s dogs: Gabe, Lizzie and Henry.