Most homes hit the market the same way. We built First Hill Realty Group in 2023 around the idea that selling a home, or buying one, shouldn’t look anything like that. Your agent is supposed to work for you, not for the deal.
The playbook for marketing a home hasn’t meaningfully changed in fifteen years. A flyer. Limited photos. A sign in the yard. An open house. At First Hill, we wrote a different playbook. Every listing starts with a plan built for the property, the market, the buyer we’re trying to reach, and the moment we’re in. Original photography and video. Copy written for the actual property and the actual buyers most likely to want it. A pre-market push through our network before the listing hits a public portal. Targeted ads aimed at the buyers most likely to act. We have over six years and more than 100 clients behind that approach.
When we’re representing buyers, we evaluate the building alongside the finishes. Foundations, drainage, mechanicals, framing. The bones of what you’re about to spend a lot of money on. You work directly with senior team members on every transaction. No hand-offs. And when you go under contract, you get a transaction coordinator whose only job is keeping every piece moving so your closing lands on time and without surprises.
Working for you means saying the honest thing out loud, even when it slows the deal down. We’ll recommend against the purchase, against the price, against the timing, or against the offer itself. The clients who come back to us years later are the ones we were the most direct with.
First Hill is a team of second acts. Our co-founders came up in the U.S. Army: Orion as an infantryman, Colin as an airborne transportation officer. Our agents came from engineering (nuclear and quality) and left corporate careers because they wanted work that mattered to the people they were doing it for. Our transaction coordinator spent years keeping weddings from falling apart before she did the same thing for closings. Different roads in. Same wiring on the way out. Nobody here stumbled into real estate, and everyone picked it for the same reason. You always go further together.
Our home market covers two states. All of York County, Maine, from Kittery up through York, Ogunquit, the Kennebunks, and Biddeford. All of Strafford County, New Hampshire. The Seacoast of New Hampshire, from Seabrook to New Castle and from Exeter to Rye. The Lakes Region of New Hampshire and the Capital corridor at Concord and Manchester. Beach condos, family homes, multi-million-dollar oceanfront estates, first-time purchases. Whatever the deal looks like, we know the market. Licensed in Maine and New Hampshire.
The best way to tell if we’re the right team for you is to meet the people you’d actually be working with. Each of us has a story that shaped how we work. Read those, then tell us about yours.
First Hill operates under REAL Broker LLC. The brokerage a real estate team is part of shapes what tools the agents have, what marketing reach a listing gets, and how fast paperwork moves. REAL is what’s behind us.
REAL is one of the fastest-growing publicly traded real estate brokerages in North America. More than 33,000 agents across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. Listed on Nasdaq under the ticker REAX. Closed roughly $75 billion in real estate transactions in 2025 (HousingWire). REAL operates as a technology-driven, agent-first brokerage and runs a dedicated luxury division, One Real Luxury, that places premium listings in front of high-net-worth buyers nationally and internationally.
What that adds up to for a York client: more reach and faster execution. The 33,000-agent network means agents from Boston to the Mid-Atlantic to the West Coast can surface a listing or a buyer search to qualified clients before it ever hits a public portal. The single national platform behind the paperwork shortens the time between offer acceptance and closing. And the One Real Luxury syndication channels place premium York inventory in front of high-net-worth buyers through publications and platforms regional brokerages don’t have access to.
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