With the housing industry still struggling to recover from the recession, it may be surprising that the fastest-growing private company in Washington state this year is a home builder. Revenue for Seattle-based Method Homes LLC grew by 784.6 percent, to $4.6 million in 2011 from $520,000 in 2009, putting the company at the top of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s list of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
To spur that growth, Method Homes’ co-founders, Brian Abramson and Mark Rylant, repeatedly took advantage of the opportunities they identified in their niche to create new lines of prefabricated modular homes. Lately, the company has expanded into apartments and hotels.