Start with a place
Median list price and the assigned base schools for each area. Attendance areas change — always confirm current assignment with the district before you rely on it.
Five people, one office, fifteen areas
Homestead is five brokers above a shopfront on Glenwood Avenue. We are not trying to be the biggest firm in the Triangle; we are trying to be the one a nervous first-time buyer feels comfortable calling at nine on a Sunday evening.
Six things we actually do
Not a call centre, not a form that promises a response within one business day. The five people on this page are the five people who pick up. On a Saturday, during a due diligence window, that is the entire product.
Nadia is in Five Points, Marcus in North Hills, Rosalind in Oakwood, Devon in Holly Springs, Priya in Wake Forest. Not a marketing line — it is why they know which streets flood and which block is quieter than the one beside it.
The single easiest way for a brokerage to break the law is to answer "what is the neighbourhood like?" with anything about the people. We answer it with building stock, lot sizes, HOAs, distances and attendance zones — and we will tell you plainly why.
Our fee is in writing before we tour a single house or photograph a single room. We take no referral fee from any lender, inspector, attorney or contractor. If we introduce you to someone it is because they were good to the last client.
If the honest answer is that you should rent another year, save another six months, or walk away from the house you love, we say it. We would rather be the people you call next year.
It is a home. It is where somebody is going to eat dinner for the next decade. The vocabulary you use about a thing shapes how you treat the person buying it.
Who you would be working with
Broker · first-time buyers
Lives in Five Points, Raleigh
Nadia bought her own first house on Fairview Road in 2016 and has been explaining due diligence fees to nervous people ever since. She works mostly inside the beltline and knows the 203(k) renovation loan process better than most lenders do, which comes in useful more often than you would expect.
Broker · sellers and North Raleigh
Lives in North Hills, Raleigh
Marcus spent eleven years as a residential appraiser before he got his broker licence, which is why his listing presentations are mostly numbers and why he will tell you when your house is not worth what the internet says. He lives in a 1961 ranch he has been slowly un-renovating.
Broker · downsizing and relocation
Lives in Historic Oakwood, Raleigh
Rosalind has served on an Oakwood preservation committee for nine years and can tell you exactly what a certificate of appropriateness involves. She specialises in downsizing, which is mostly a logistics job and partly a patience job, and she reads condominium reserve studies for fun.
Broker · new construction and the southern towns
Lives in Holly Springs
Devon worked in production homebuilding for six years, so he knows which options are worth paying for and which are margin. He handles most of our new-construction buyers and insists on an independent inspection before the eleventh month of the builder warranty, every time.
Broker · relocation and north Wake
Lives in Wake Forest
Priya moved here for a job in 2014 with three weeks to find somewhere to live, and now runs most of our relocation work. She does more video touring than anyone here and is very good at ruling homes out before you waste a Saturday on them.
The part with legal weight
Equal Housing Opportunity. We are pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing programme in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, colour, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.
In practice this shapes how we answer the most common question we get, which is “what is that neighbourhood like?”. The honest answer is a description of the housing and the infrastructure — when it was built, how big the lots are, whether there is an HOA, how far it is to work, which schools the district assigns. It is never a description of the people, and it is never a recommendation of one area over another on any basis connected to who lives there. That is not caution; it is the law, and it is also just correct.
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The Okafor familyFirst home · two adults, one toddler“We got outbid twice and both times Nadia told us not to chase it.” Mordecai 11 weeks 9 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseWe had been renting for six years and had convinced ourselves we could not afford anything inside the beltline. Nadia ran the numbers with our lender before we saw a single house and it turned out the ceiling was higher than we thought, but only if we accepted a smaller lot. We got outbid twice and both times she told us not to chase it — she showed us what the payment would actually be at the number we were about to write, and it was not a number we would have been happy with in February. The third one we won at asking. It is 1,420 square feet and we are not moving for a decade.
Worked with Nadia Okonjo-Reyes · Broker · first-time buyers
Sam and WeiFirst home · single income“One income, and we still got a garage.” Knightdale 7 weeks 6 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseI was buying on my own salary and every calculator I used online told me something different. Marcus sat down with a spreadsheet and separated the loan maximum from the payment I actually wanted, which turned out to be about eighty thousand dollars apart. We looked in Knightdale because the drive on US-64 is genuinely twenty minutes, not the forty I had assumed. Six homes, seven weeks, and a 2020 townhome with a garage. He also caught that the HOA had a special assessment pending and made us ask for the minutes before we went firm.
Worked with Marcus Whitfield · Broker · sellers and North Raleigh
The Delacroix familyGrowing family · relocating from Ohio“Sixteen weeks, and about nine of them were us changing our minds.” Holly Springs 16 weeks 14 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseWe moved from Columbus with two kids and no idea how the Triangle fits together. Devon drove us around for two full Saturdays before we looked at a single listing, which felt like a waste of time until it very obviously was not. Sixteen weeks total, and about nine of them were us changing our minds about how far out we were willing to be. He never once made us feel like we were being difficult about it. We ended up in Holly Springs with a fenced yard, which was the one thing on the list we would not give up.
Worked with Devon Park · Broker · new construction and the southern towns
Britta and PaulDownsizing · sold a four-bedroom first“She talked us out of the first condo we loved, and she was right.” North Hills 9 weeks 5 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseWe had been in the same house for twenty-six years and the stairs had stopped being a joke. Rosalind sold that house in eleven days and then spent two months helping us work out what we actually wanted next. She talked us out of the first condo we loved because the reserve study was thin and the building had a roof coming due, and she was right — the assessment landed the following spring. The one we bought has an elevator, no stairs at all, and a fee that covers things we used to do ourselves.
Worked with Rosalind Alvarez · Broker · downsizing and relocation
The Nakamura familyRelocating for work · 30-day timeline“Thirty days from job offer to keys, and nothing went wrong.” Morrisville 5 weeks 4 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseMy start date at RTP gave us thirty days. Priya set up video tours the week before we flew in, so by the time we landed we had already ruled out eleven homes without wasting a Saturday on any of them. We saw four in person on the Friday and wrote on the second one that evening. She had already introduced us to a lender who could close in twenty-one days, which is the only reason our offer beat two others. Thirty days from job offer to keys, and nothing went wrong.
Worked with Priya Raghunathan · Broker · relocation and north Wake
Deb and AnaSecond home · renovation budget“We wanted something we could fix, and almost nobody would show us those.” Wake Forest 22 weeks 19 homes seenRead the whole storyCloseWe wanted a house that needed work, which sounds simple and is not — most agents kept steering us toward move-in-ready because it is easier. Priya took the opposite approach and started sending us the listings other people were skipping. Twenty-two weeks is a long search and we knew it would be. What we got was a 1955 ranch with good bones, an FHA 203(k) loan that folded the renovation into the mortgage, and a kitchen we designed ourselves. She sat in on the contractor draw meetings, which she did not have to do.
Worked with Priya Raghunathan · Broker · relocation and north Wake
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