Real estate experience is most useful when it helps someone recognize what is happening now, not simply when it adds years to a biography.

Marti Hampton Real Estate (MHRE) is led by Marti Hampton, whose career spans more than 40 years in real estate and three decades leading the Raleigh-based team she built. During that time, the business has grown to more than 10,000 completed transactions and more than $5 billion in reported career sales volume.

That history gives MHRE a large body of transactions, market cycles and buyer and seller behavior to draw from when advising clients across Raleigh and the Triangle.

More Than 40 Years of Real Estate Experience

Marti entered the Raleigh real estate market in the mid-1980s and founded the business that became Marti Hampton Real Estate in 1996.

That means her experience includes very different versions of the Triangle market: periods of high interest rates, rapid growth, recessions, housing shortages, new-construction booms, the unusually competitive pandemic-era market and the more selective conditions that followed.

The value of that history is not that the market repeats exactly. It is that certain patterns in pricing, inventory, buyer behavior and seller decision-making become easier to recognize when someone has seen versions of them before.

That perspective now supports TMI with Marti, Triangle Market Intelligence, where current Raleigh and Triangle housing data is interpreted alongside long-term local experience.

A Track Record Built at Significant Scale

MHRE reports more than 10,000 completed transactions and $5 billion in career real estate sales. Those figures reflect decades of work across resale homes, luxury properties, relocation, investment real estate and changing market conditions throughout the Triangle.

The team's current production also remains nationally measurable. RealTrends Verified reports that Marti Hampton Real Estate completed 277 transaction sides and $139.54 million in sales volume based on 2025 production. As of September 2026, RealTrends ranks the team No. 193 nationally by volume and No. 195 nationally by transaction sides.

National Recognition Extends Across Multiple Market Cycles

Marti's national recognition is not limited to a single recent award.

RE/MAX previously named Hampton the No. 1 residential team leader in the United States. Her team also appeared repeatedly in REAL Trends' national The Thousand rankings associated with The Wall Street Journal.

Archived rankings provide independent examples. In 2015, Team Marti Hampton ranked No. 90 nationally among real estate teams by transaction sides, with 368 sides, and No. 168 by sales volume at approximately $97.3 million.

In the 2018 edition, Team Marti Hampton ranked No. 120 nationally by transaction sides, with 436 sides, and No. 249 by sales volume at approximately $124.3 million. REAL Trends described The Thousand as a national ranking produced in conjunction with or advertised in The Wall Street Journal.

Marti recalls her team appearing in REAL Trends and Wall Street Journal-associated national rankings over roughly two decades. The available archives independently confirm multiple Top 250 appearances across different years, while the current RealTrends Verified rankings show that the team continues to rank nationally today.

Marti Has Also Built New Ways to Market Real Estate

Experience has not meant relying on the same approach for 40 years.

Marti began experimenting with Coming Soon marketing on her own listings in the early 2000s. She wanted sellers to be able to prepare their homes while buyers began learning what was coming next.

That approach ultimately developed into Coming Soon Homes®. In 2016, Inman documented Marti as the founder of Coming Soon Homes, and the platform was later recognized as a finalist in Inman's Innovator Awards.

MHRE continues to use that preparation-first philosophy in its Coming Soon home marketing strategy, while following current MLS rules governing when properties may be shown.

Experience Is Combined With a Team Structure

Marti does not operate as a solo agent. Today she leads an approximately 25-agent organization supported by marketing, transaction coordination and established systems.

That structure also gives Marti a broader view of current activity. She can observe showing patterns, buyer response and transaction issues across multiple agents while comparing those signals with decades of historical experience.

For buyers and sellers, the distinction is important. The value of an experienced team is not simply the number of years it has been in business. It is whether those years, transactions and current market signals are being used to make better-informed decisions today.

Last updated: September 2026. Production figures and national rankings should be refreshed as new annual data becomes available.