Marti Hampton is the founder and team leader of Marti Hampton Real Estate, brokered by eXp Realty in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more than 40 years, she has built her career in the Greater Raleigh market around deep local knowledge, strategic preparation, skilled negotiation, and a commitment to protecting her clients’ interests.

Marti remains an active real estate agent today, representing buyers and sellers throughout the greater Raleigh-Durham region while leading the agents and professionals of Marti Hampton Real Estate. As a member of the eXp Luxury Division, she also brings decades of experience to the luxury residential market. Over the course of her career, Marti and her team have completed more than 10,000 closings and over $5 billion in residential sales.

Her career has earned national recognition. In 2014, Marti was ranked the #1 RE/MAX agent in the United States among approximately 100,000 agents, while her team ranked #3 worldwide. Her team went on to hold the #1 RE/MAX team ranking in the U.S. from 2014 through 2019.

Marti has also earned some of the real estate industry’s most respected honors, including RE/MAX Circle of Legends, Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement, Luminary of Distinction, and multiple Diamond Club Awards. She holds the National Association of REALTORS® e-PRO® and Short Sales & Foreclosure Resource® (SFR®) certifications. She has also been recognized by National Relocation & Real Estate Magazine as one of the Most Powerful Women in Real Estate and was named an Inman Innovator of the Year finalist for her work with Coming Soon Homes®.

But Marti’s career has never been defined by production alone.

She has spent decades looking for better ways to serve clients and improve the way real estate is practiced. In the mid-1990s, Marti was among the early real estate professionals in the Triangle to develop a specialized team structure, creating distinct roles for listing and buyer representation long before that model became common across the industry.

In 2014, she founded Coming Soon Homes®, one of the earliest consumer-facing platforms built around pre-market real estate. The concept grew from Marti’s belief that the work of successfully selling a home begins well before a listing reaches the public market. Preparation, positioning, pricing, and creating buyer awareness are all part of the strategy.

That same philosophy continues to shape how Marti approaches real estate today. She believes preparation is part of negotiation, that pricing requires judgment rather than guesswork, and that an experienced agent’s responsibility extends far beyond facilitating a transaction. It means recognizing risk, identifying opportunity, creating leverage, and helping clients understand the decisions that can affect their financial outcome.

After more than four decades in the Raleigh market, Marti has also developed a perspective that can only come from working through multiple housing cycles. Rather than reacting to broad national headlines, she focuses on what local inventory, pricing, buyer behavior, economic activity, and development are actually showing across Greater Raleigh.

That work is reflected in TMI with Marti, her Triangle Market Intelligence platform focused on interpreting the data, trends, and market forces shaping real estate throughout the Raleigh-Durham region. Through market analysis, articles, and video, Marti brings local context to housing conditions and helps buyers, sellers, homeowners, and real estate professionals better understand what is happening beneath the headlines.

Marti also shares her knowledge through her YouTube channel, Marti Hampton Real Estate – Moving to Raleigh. Her content extends beyond homes for sale to explore what it means to live in the region, including relocation, communities, new development, businesses coming to the area, infrastructure, economic growth, and the changes shaping Raleigh and the surrounding communities.

Her commitment to the industry extends to other real estate professionals as well. As an eXp Realty Certified Mentor, Marti shares the experience and lessons developed over more than four decades in real estate. She also founded the eXp Culture Center Raleigh, creating a local environment where agents can connect, collaborate, learn, and build stronger businesses. Developing agents and sharing what she has learned throughout her career have become an important part of the legacy she continues to build.

Marti’s story began long before the rankings, awards, and sales milestones. She arrived in Raleigh as a single mother with three young children, without an established professional network or a built-in path to success. She built her business from the ground up through persistence, discipline, and an unwavering belief that real estate could create a better future for her family.

Those beginnings continue to influence the way she leads and serves today. Marti values preparation over hype, clear information over assumptions, and experienced judgment over shortcuts. Whether she is representing a client, analyzing the Raleigh housing market, developing agents, or explaining what is changing across the region, her focus remains the same: understand what is really happening, make informed decisions, and put experience to work where it matters most.