10 Top North Carolina REALTORS in 2023

👨‍⚖️ About: Glen Cornwell is an established full-service real estate agent with 20 years of experience in the industry. He is licensed to practice in 5 states and has sold over 1000 properties in the past few years. He specializes mainly in relocation, short sales, new construction, luxury, and investment properties.

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• 20 years of experience in Flat fee MLS, short sales, and relocation
• Licensed in 5 states

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He is active in Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia

About: Rob Partin is a REALTOR in North Carolina. He is one of the leading real estate professionals in the United States who has sold houses for over $24 million in 2020. He is part of Fonville Morisey, the nation’s No. 1 real estate company, and a member of The Long & Foster Companies.

Fonville Morisey & The Long & Foster Companies: Fonville Morisey Realty is the #No 1 real estate firm in Triangle which was acquired by the Long & Foster ® Real Estate Companies, the largest privately-owned real estate company in the nation. It provides virtual full service for home buyers and sellers. Long & Foster helps you coordinate things like property listings, settlements, inspections, virtual tours, and virtual staging.

For Home Sellers

• Street Savvy on Value: They are familiar with every area and community’s market on a local level. Your realtor will present you with a unique analysis of the value of your home because they have the inside scoop on what’s selling, where, and for how much.
• Finding the right Buyer: To find out who is searching for a home similar to yours, the agent will also contact their personal contacts and the network of Fonville Morisey agents. Additionally, they will feature your house online.

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• Real Estate Market Reports: To get a better idea of how much to price your property, download the customized markets reports to examine the most recent inventory, pricing, and home sales trends in your area.
• Home Mortgages Calculator and Tools: Their simple mortgage calculators allow you to determine your purchasing power.

Our take: We recommend Rob because of his expertise in the real estate market. Rob has helped hundreds of individuals and families buy/sell their properties.

• Top Listing Agent #15
• Offices Listings Sold #1 Agent

Rob Partin has a 5-star rating on Zillow

Rob is licensed in North Carolina. He provides his services through  Fonville Morisey in Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and Wake Forest. 

👨‍⚖️ About: Martha Gentry is a REALTOR at RE/MAX properties Home Selling Team was ranked No. 8 overall in the Carolinas Region for Re/Max International. She is a part of RE/MAX Chairman’s Club and Diamond Club.

💫 Her specialties: buyer’s agents, listing agent, relocation, and short sales.
⭐ The Martha Gentry Team: She has the best real estate team of 12 members in the Pinehurst/Southern Pines area. Since 2002, The Gentry Team has maintained a consistent position in the top ten of ReMax Carolinas and as one of the top teams in the United States.

💰 Sales Volume: $79M in sales in 2019

👍🏽 Feedback: Her team has bagged several positive feedback for communication, local real estate knowledge, and professionalism.

🎀 Community Serving: Martha Gentry and her team are also involved in a variety of activities because they are committed to giving back to the community they live in. These include Sentinels of Freedom, Sandhills Children Center, Children’s Miracle Network, Toys for Tots, Moore County Literacy Council, and many local golf tournaments.

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• Luminary of Distinction Award from Re/Max International in 2018
• Lifetime Achievement Award with RE/MAX
• Diamond Award
• Platinum Award
• Member of REMAX CIRCLE OF LEGENDS: Prestigious Circle of Legends that requires a career of at least 10 years with the RE/MAX network and more than $10 million in RE/MAX commissions.

Martha Gentry Team has 5-star ratings on Zillow

Her team serves in Aberdeen, NC, Eagle Springs, NC, Southern Pines, NC, Seven Lakes, West End, NC, Carthage, NC, Jackson Springs, NC, Vass, NC, Lakeview, NC, Wagram, NC, Whispering Pines, NC, Pinehurst, NC, West End, NC, Cameron, NC, Hoffman, NC, Pinebluff, NC

👨‍⚖️ About: A REALTOR and owner of Landmark Sotheby’s International Realty, Nick Phillips is a successful businessman. Throughout his career, Nick has consistently been recognized as being among the top one percent of real estate brokers in the state, based on the volume of sales transactions completed each year.

Throughout the Wilmington regional market, Nick specializes in waterfront, beach, and lifestyle properties, and he has established a reputation for consistently selling the region’s most luxurious residences.

🏠 Landmark Sotheby’s International Realty

Landmark Sotheby’s International Realty specializes in brokering luxury and lifestyle real estate in Southeastern North Carolina.

The company provides advantages to sellers and buyers with a proven global referral network. It also offers several marketing strategies that help the properties get exposure through exclusive partnerships with global outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Bloomberg, and Dwell.

• Recognized as top 1% of real estate brokers in the state of North Carolina in annual closed sales volume.
• His average selling price was over $1,000,000 per transaction.

Nick Pillips Team has 5-star ratings on Zillow

He serves in North Topsail Beach, NC, Wrightsville Beach, NC, Surf City, NC, Wilmington, NC, Bald Head Island, NC, Hampstead, NC, Topsail Beach, NC

👩🏽‍💼 About: Marilyn Wright is a REALTOR with Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. She is one of the top REALTORS in North Carolina with four record-breaking sales in the western North Carolina region representing both buyers and sellers.

⭐ Regional Expert: She has 15 years of experience. She has brokered the region’s two highest residential sales – listing and selling a $9,300,000 home in Transylvania County and a $9,500,000 home in Buncombe County as a buyers agent – and has closed over $113 million in 2021 as an individual agent, establishing her as a regional expert.

🏆 Certification: She boasts of holding many certifications in the field of real estate as a REALTOR.

• Global Real Estate Advisor Green, Farm, and Ranch Specialist
• Seller Representative Specialist
• Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist
• Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
• Historian Specialist

• She is the top-producing agent in Asheville and the surrounding region.
• She is recognized as the No. 5 individual agent based on the sales volume in North Carolina by REAL Trends 2021.
• She has been mentioned in several national publications like Mansion  Global, The Wall Street Journal and highlighted in REAL Trends.
• She was awarded as Rising Star in her first six months as an agent.

Marilyn Wright has 4.7 ratings on Zillow.

She serves in Alexander, Arden, Asheville, Balsam, Barnardsville, Black Mountain, Brevard, Burnsville, Candler, Canton, Cashiers, Chimney Rock, Clyde, East Flat Rock, Fairview, Fletcher, Green Mountain, Hendersonville, Horse Shoe, Hot Springs, Leicester, Maggie Valley, Marion, Mars Hill, Marshall, Mills River, Old Fort, Penland, Swannanoa, Waynesville, Weaverville, Zirconia.

👨🏽‍💼 About: Born in New York City and then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, John R. Vesco has served for 21 years and retired at the rank of Gunnery Sergeant before entering the real estate market. He is known for having good local knowledge about different buyers and sellers in the local market. He has created a checklist system in his company that provides an entire list of what the sellers and buyers have to do during the course of the buying-selling process which is unique from other REALTORS.

Vesco John generated sales revenue of around USD 155,815.00 in 2021.

As compared to other REALTORS, he sells houses at 4.5% as compared to other REALTORS  who charge relatively higher (5%-6%).

👨🏽‍🎓 Education and designation: He has 11 NAR designations from the National Association of REALTORS for education and training. And one of his significant designations is a ‘Negotiotiating Expert’.

• He has been on the REAL Trends’ top one half of 1 % of all realtors in the United States for the last 6 years in a row.
• He has specialties like MIL, OFF, RELO, CON, BUS, INDUST, BB, DL, RA, INV, MULFAM, HOSP, NEW, SS, FP, PM, LAND, RENT, BUS, VAC.
• Included in the REAL Trends’ Best Agent list in 2016/2017/2017.

John Vesco has a 5-star rating on Zillow

He serves in Havelock, Morehead City, New Bern, and Newport.

👩🏽‍💼About: Crystal is a full-service Broker Owner and a Top Producer (Executive Club) with RE/MAX Real Estate Service. She has about 16 years of experience in the real estate industry. Crystal Copas maximizes a home’s sale by demonstrating her home staging skills, as well as exposure through extensive internet marketing, effective advertising, and constant networking, all while keeping her sellers informed of current market conditions.

🏠 RE/MAX Real Estate Service

RE/MAX Real Estate Service is locally and independently owned by Crystal Copas and David Lambis recognized as one of the leading real estate companies in the area.

RE/MAX is widely regarded as one of the leading real estate franchise companies, boasting the industry’s most productive sales force and a global reach of more than 80 countries.

📖 Certification: Crystal holds the ABR, AHS, IAHS Designation, and SFR Certification.

• SAAR REALTOR of the Year 2015
• RE/MAX Real Estate Service Executive Club
• Top producer with most listings, Million Dollar Agent, and others
• Crystal is a REALTOR correspondent for Stanford’s local TV station WBFT TV46 and is the host of Stanford’s Parade of Homes”
• President-Elect for Raleigh Regional Women’s Council of REALTORS and is one of twelve chosen for 2016! NCAR Leadership Academy.

Crystal Copas Team has a 5-star rating on Zillow

Crystal Copas Team serves 3 areas: Lee County, NC, Sanford, NC, and Cary, NC.

👨🏽‍💼 About: Big Frank Schuler has been in the housing business for over 40 years. He has been with ‘EXIT REALTY’ for the past 16 years. He opened his own real estate company called ‘ Big Realty’ in NC and GA. He has extensive knowledge about the local real estate market, especially the beautiful Southern Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina.

🏠 About Big Realty: Big Realty primarily focuses on the properties located in the beautiful Southern Appalachian Mountain area. If you are planning a mountain retirement, vacation, rental, investment, commercial, or just land to build your house, the Big Realty will help you get it.

• BIG FRANK Schuler Broker/Realtor was featured in the Cover Story of Top Agent Magazine on July 15th, 2019.
• He was also featured for being the ‘Top Producer’ in the Real Estate industry and his unique ‘DO YOU KNOW FRANK’ advertising.

Big Frank Schuler has a 5-star rating on Zillow.

As a REALTOR NC, he serves in Andrews, Blairsville, Blue Ridge, Ellijay, Hayesville, Hiawassee, Marble, Maysville, Mineral Bluff, Murphy, Robbinsville, Warne, and Young Harris.

👨🏽‍💼 About: Steve Toop is a REALTOR in NC and a licensed broker for over 28 years. Overall he has 42 years of experience in the real estate market. He specializes in Flat Fee MLS Listings. He is the owner of United Brokers LTD which lists your property in the Realtors® MLS for a Fixed Fee and you pay NO Listing commission.

🏠 United Brokers LTD: United Brokers LTD offers basic flat fee MLS listing North Carolina packages. Their packages are affordable and provide good services when it comes to Flat Fee MLS North Carolina.

💼 Packages: For an additional fee they provide a virtual tour of your house while listing your house on MLS. After the listing process if you wish to make any kind of change in it they ask for an extra fee of $10.

• GRI® Graduate
• ABR – Accredited Buyer Representative
• Platinum ClubTop Agent Award

Steve Toop has a 4.9-star rating on Zillow.

He serves in Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Clemmons, Durham, Carolina Beach, Greensboro, Hillsborough, Fayetteville, Lancaster, Moon, Mooresville, Raleigh, Thomasville, Wilmington, Winston-Salem, Julian.

👩🏽‍💼About: Linda Trevor is a licensed REALTOR since 1998. She is a full-time broker-associate with Compass. She has bagged several accolades in her career. Her company, Linda Trevor & Co. of Compass, has consistently ranked among the top ten teams in the Triangle. She is also a Relocation and Luxury Home Specialist. Linda has been a member of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors since 2005, the 2014 REALTOR® of the Year, and past president.

🧭 Compass, Inc: It is an American licensed real estate company that utilizes the Internet as a marketing medium with the use of real estate technology. Compass is the first company to have built a proprietary mobile app for real estate agents.

✅ Operations: They operate similarly to any other traditional real estate company when it comes to selling your home. Their agents will handle every aspect of your sale, including marketing, holding open houses, fielding offers, negotiating, and finally closing with you.

• Triangle Business Journal’s Top 10 Teams
• RealTrends #1 NC Medium Team in Volume
• Top Producers Council
• Certified Residential Specialist (CRS)
• Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS)
• Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® President 2011

She has a 5-star rating on Zillow.

She serves in Raleigh, Morrisville, Apex, Garner, Cary, Chapel Hill, Clayton, Fuquay-Varina, Holly Springs, Lillington, Wake Forest, and Willow Spring.