As the 2020 president of the Greater Chattanooga Realtors association, Brandi Pearl Thompson foresees continued growth this year in the local $2.5 billion real estate market.
The 37-year-old Realtor – one of the youngest to ever head the Chattanooga Association of Realtors – sees such gains helping families as well as the more than 2,000 local Realtors who buy and sell houses in the Chattanooga region.
“I sell real estate to change people’s family financial being, starting with my own,” Thompson says. “I think I’m really good at looking at something and seeing what it can be.”
The wealth of most homeowners has grown over the past decade, with the average home selling last year in Chattanooga for $238,143, up by more than 50 percent since 2010.
Thompson bought her first house in 2003 and has since personally bought or sold more than 50 other houses, including 18 last year alone, in addition to her work as a Realtor at Keller Williams downtown for the past six years and previously for RE/MAX Properties.