KLNB
Partner-owned Mid-Atlantic independent.1
Real Estate Industry Reviews Editorial Team Updated 2026-10-27 www.klnb.com/about
Overview
KLNB’s about page calls the firm the Mid-Atlantic’s largest independent brokerage and reports 57 years in business, 120 advisors and 56 partners. Those are the firm’s words and figures. The contact page gives 1130 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, and also lists Tysons, Virginia, Rockville, Maryland, Columbia, Maryland and Baltimore. The 57-year figure is not converted here into a founding year, because the page states a count rather than a year.
DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, checked 2026-10-26, lists KLNB LLC, REO98362100, Real Estate Organization, status Active, initial issue January 20, 2005, current term March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027. An earlier entity, KLNB, INC., REO100160, was first issued September 15, 1997 and expired February 28, 2005. A KLNB entity has been licensed in DC since 1997. That is a license date, not a founding year. The Maryland Real Estate Commission business-name search has no permalink. The reading gives David J. Fritz, trade name KLNB LLC, broker registration 98083, expires March 30, 2027, 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore MD 21204. It does not state a status.
The contact page lists a Baltimore office at 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore, MD 21204. The about page says 57 years in business and does not state a founding year. The firm site describes KLNB as an NAI Global network member. Services named on the firm site include leasing, capital markets (acquisitions and dispositions of retail, office, industrial and multifamily), property management, financing, occupier services and development. Google Maps listing at 100 West Road, Towson, MD 21204, checked 2026-10-27, has no reviews. No rating is shown for that office. The Washington hub’s 3.0 (2, Google) is a different office and is not used here.
Two sourced criteria produce the 9.0 score: state license at 10 points and weight 25 and years in business at 10 points and weight 20. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source stay out of the math.
Score breakdown
| State license | 10 |
| Professional directory | Not published |
| Verifiable transactions | Not published |
| Years in business | 10 |
| Public reviews | Not published |
| Overall score | 9.0 |
State license, weight 25, 10 points. DC DLCP license search, checked 2026-10-26: KLNB LLC, REO98362100, Real Estate Organization, status Active, initial issue January 20, 2005, current term March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027. The active record names KLNB LLC. An earlier entity, KLNB, INC., REO100160, was first issued September 15, 1997 and expired February 28, 2005. Maryland Real Estate Commission business-name search, same day, no permalink: David J. Fritz, trade name KLNB LLC, broker registration 98083, expires March 30, 2027, 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore MD 21204. That reading does not state a status. The 10 points are from the active DC record. DC DLCP license search: KLNB LLC (REO98362100) and KLNB, INC. (REO100160), Maryland Real Estate Commission business-name search: KLNB LLC (broker registration 98083)
Professional directory, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No SIOR, CCIM or comparable listing of a named principal was read for this profile.
Verifiable transactions, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No named transaction with a property and a size, price or date was read outside the firm’s own description.
Years in business, weight 20, 10 points. The about page reports 57 years in business. That is a cited year-count, not a founding year, and it is not restated here as a founding date. A count of 57 is the 20-or-more band (10 points). The DC first-issue date is not this input. The years rule takes a founding year or a year-count, and a registry first-issue date is neither. A KLNB entity has been licensed in DC since 1997. That sentence is the license history. KLNB About page
Public reviews, weight 15, not scored. Not scored. The Baltimore Google Maps listing at 100 West Road, Towson, MD 21204, checked 2026-10-27, has no reviews, so no count or average was read for that office. The Washington hub listing, 3.0 (2, Google), is a different office and is not added. No rating from another address is used. Google Maps business listings (star ratings and review counts read by hand, 2026-10-27)
Math: 450 weighted points ÷ 45 (the weight of the sourced criteria) = 10.0, then capped at 9.0 / 10 because exactly two criteria are sourced. A 10.0 needs at least three sourced criteria. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source are left out of the denominator. This is the boutique rubric, not the filing rubric used for the six national firms, and the two are not comparable. Bands · Evidence levels.
Each criterion is defined on our methodology page.
Orientation
Partner-owned Mid-Atlantic independent. Services listed in the sources cited on this page: leasing, sales, property management, financing, development.
Main competitors
The Washington, D.C. city page lists KLNB with Avison Young (8.5 / 10).
The Baltimore city page lists KLNB with Gold and Company (9.0 / 10), MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate (8.3 / 10), Max Realty, LLC (8.3 / 10), and Brexton Commercial (No score published).
Pricing
A fee schedule is not published in the sources cited on this page, and no pricing URL is published.
How to engage
| Official website | https://www.klnb.com/about/ |
|---|---|
| Pricing URL | not published |
| Offices verified on the firm’s own site | Washington, D.C.: 1130 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036; plus Tysons, VA, Rockville, MD, Columbia, MD and Baltimore (office page); Baltimore: 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore, MD 21204 (office page) |
| Services listed | leasing, sales, property management, financing, development |
| Last verified | 2026-10-27 |
Competitors
Compared with
Compare KLNB with
Suggestions are other commercial brokerages on this site: same city first, then overlapping sourced services, then a closer firm type. Each link opens the compare tool with both firms. Filing-rubric scores and boutique-rubric scores are not the same measurement.
Reviews
The Washington, D.C. office listing read on 2026-10-26 shows 3.0 from 2 Google reviews (Google Maps reading). That reading is the public-reviews input above.
No client quotes were read for this profile.
Fact file
| Item | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What the about page says | Calls itself the Mid-Atlantic’s largest independent brokerage. Reports 57 years in business, 120 advisors and 56 partners. The 57-year figure is a count, not a founding year. | KLNB About page |
| Addresses | 1130 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, plus Tysons, VA, Rockville, MD, Columbia, MD and Baltimore. | KLNB Contact page (office addresses) |
| DC licenses | KLNB LLC, REO98362100, Real Estate Organization, Active, initial issue January 20, 2005, current term March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027. KLNB, INC., REO100160, first issued September 15, 1997, expired February 28, 2005. Licensed in DC since 1997. Not a founding year. | DC DLCP license search: KLNB LLC (REO98362100) and KLNB, INC. (REO100160) |
| Maryland record | David J. Fritz, trade name KLNB LLC, broker registration 98083, expires March 30, 2027, 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore MD 21204. The search has no permalink. The reading does not state a status. | Maryland Real Estate Commission business-name search: KLNB LLC (broker registration 98083) |
| Baltimore office | 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore, MD 21204, on the contact page. Google Maps listing at 100 West Road, Towson, MD 21204, checked 2026-10-27, has no reviews. No rating from another address is used. | KLNB Contact page (office addresses), Google Maps business listings (star ratings and review counts read by hand, 2026-10-27) |
Methodology and sources
Method note and sources
This score uses the boutique public-evidence rubric: state license (25), professional directory (20), verifiable transactions (20), years in business (20) and public reviews (15). A number is published only when at least two criteria have a source and at least one of those sources is independent of the firm. With exactly two sourced criteria the score is capped at 9.0; a 10.0 needs at least three. Self-reported career totals and review claims we have not read are not inputs.
Sources
- KLNB About page · accessed 2026-10-20
- KLNB Contact page (office addresses) · accessed 2026-10-20
- DC DLCP license search: KLNB LLC (REO98362100) and KLNB, INC. (REO100160) · accessed 2026-10-26
- Maryland Real Estate Commission business-name search: KLNB LLC (broker registration 98083) · accessed 2026-10-26
- Google Maps business listings (star ratings and review counts read by hand, 2026-10-27) · accessed 2026-10-27
Last verified 2026-10-26. Figures were re-read from the linked sources that day.
View changelog
- Boutique score recomputed. Public reviews follow the star rating and the review count. A published 10.0 needs at least three sourced criteria, and exactly two sourced criteria cap the score at 9.0. Published score 9.0 / 10, Evidence: Moderate. No new source was read.
- Baltimore office added from the contact page: 100 West Road, Suite 505, Baltimore, MD 21204. The Google listing at 100 West Road, Towson, MD 21204, has no reviews, so reviews stay unscored. The existing boutique score is unchanged. This batch did not retrieve a new license number.
- DC organization license REO98362100 added for KLNB LLC, Active, and the expired KLNB, INC. record REO100160. A KLNB entity has been licensed in DC since 1997. That date is not used as a founding year. Maryland broker registration 98083, trade name KLNB LLC, is cited; the reading does not state a status. Boutique score 10.0 / 10, Evidence: Moderate, from the active DC license and the 57-year count on the firm’s about page. Directory, named transactions and reviews are not sourced.
- Profile published from the sources cited below.