Real Estate Experts

Your Local Chapel Hill and Durham Experts

Jodi BakstBroker, Owner

Our Difference

Dedicated to Giving You Our All

At Real Estate Experts we put our hyper-local knowledge to work for you. We are dedicated to giving you expert, honest and professional service. Whether you are buying a home, selling a home, or renting your property, we will tell you like it is and set your expectations every step of the way. Our strengths are in negotiation, marketing and taking care of every detail. We have an unbridled commitment to next level customer service because ...

It’s All About You!

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Meet The Team

Who we are ...

Real Estate Experts is a residential real estate company. We have been serving the local market for over twenty-five years. We go above and beyond to provide exceptional service to our clients. Not only are we experts in our market, the real estate transaction, negotiation, and marketing, we are out-of-the-box thinkers. With you the client in mind, we listen and we deliver the results you ask for.

One of the most important things we can do for our clients is set your expectations throughout every step of your transaction whether you are buying or selling your home. Real Estate is a complex business and a transaction moves on a linear path but many things can happen throughout the process that affect decisions you will make. We know the entire process deeply and we make sure you are educated to make really good decisions that protect your interests.

Meet The Team

Meet the Team at Real Estate Experts

Jordan Lee

Partner | Team Lead

Karyn Cho

Broker, REALTOR

Lynn Nilssen

Realtor, GREEN Certified, Housing Affordability Specialist

Michael White

Broker, Realtor/Makler/el corredor de bienes raíces

Staging Partner

Founder Linden Creek Home Staging

Closing Coordinator

As local Realtors, we are passionate about our business and delight in offering exceptional service to each of our clients. As real estate agents and real estate listing agents, we work in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Hillsborough, Pittsboro and Cary, Apex, Morrisville and Mebane and Burlington, North Carolina.

Over the past 20 years, our seasoned team members have worked together to provide outstanding service to our buyers and sellers, while developing a unique partnership to better care for our clients.

Our team talks and shares ideas with each other regarding our various clients’ needs each day. When you work with any of our realtors, it is just as good as working with the entire team and benefiting from our collective years of experience.

Work With Us

Work with us

We Set Your Expectations

We are a full-service real estate company. Our focus is to help take care of every detail when you are buying or selling your home, from managing the transaction seamlessly to making sure all parties to the transaction are delighted. We go above and beyond throughout the transaction because not only do we want your repeat business, we want your referral business. We want to be top of mind when you think of real estate. We provide outstanding service from the beginning of the transaction to the end and beyond.

Once you work with Real Estate Experts we are your trusted resource forever. If you ever have a real estate need or question, we want you to come to us first.

To find out more about who we are and what we do, visit:

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Client success stories

Nothing makes us happier than seeing our client's fully realize their real estate goals.

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"Jodi’s knowledge counsel and diligence was incredibly helpful in our recent home purchase. She is possibly the best agent we have ever used."

"Jodi Bakst is a terrific, detail oriented, caring and conscientious broker. Jodi took care of every detail, followed up with surveyors, inspections, work which needed to be done, and did it all under sometimes trying conditions - all with good humor …

"Great Agent! We met Lynn recently while looking for a home in the Chapel Hill area; she was really great - responsive, helpful, and patient. We spent days looking at multiple listings, and she was always prepared and kept us from getting discouraged.…

"Jodi is awesome. We sent her 3-4 listings we liked and she pulled a bunch more we didn’t even see. She helped us find the perfect home for us."

"We have rarely worked with someone so approachable yet professional, caring and competent… our largest concerns ( inspections, selling price etc) were met but so were small yet worrisome issues…the sorts of things that keep sellers up at night like m…

"Complete professional . Lynn guided us through the purchase of a second home in Sarasota, Florida. My wife and I were in Massachusetts the entire time. She did all the leg work. Always available for a question or two. I recommend her with no hesitati…

"Lynn is the very best! I needed a realtor who could act fast and do all of the work necessary to ensure my bid to buy a property succeeded. Lynn is incredible. From our very first conversation when she asked me all of the right questions, I knew I co…

"We were out of town sellers and Jodi and her team were very helpful identifying and getting done for us all of the tasks and improvements required for sale of an older home in this market environment. And we sold for well over the asking price - than…