Prudential Carolinas Realty is consistently ranked among the leading residential real estate agencies in America, with more than 700 real estate agents, 16 sales offices in the leading metropolitan areas of North Carolina and upstate South Carolina including Charlotte, Lake Norman, Winston-Salem, Kernersville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary. With annual sales volumes of more than $3.3 billion, Prudential Carolinas Realty is responsible for more than 14,000 real estate home sales and purchases.
Major Milestones:
1959: Zack H. Bacon, Jr. forms Bacon & Company in Raleigh.
1974: Helms-Parrish Properties, direct forerunner to today’s Prudential Carolinas Realty, opens in Winston-Salem.
1980: Merrill Lynch acquires Townsend Realty of Charlotte, the largest real estate firm in North Carolina at the time, and changes the landscape. Merrill Lynch will later sell its nationwide real estate division to Prudential Real Estate.
1991: Zack Bacon, Grange Cuthbert, Muriel Helms Sheubrooks, Robert Helms and C. Dan Joyner return Prudential offices across the Carolinas to local ownership.
2004: HomeServices of America, Inc. acquires Prudential Carolinas Realty. Later that year, Winston-Salem’s Graham & Boles Properties merges with Prudential Carolinas Realty.
The rest is history! Today our company is a leader among real estate companies serving all three of the metropolitan areas of North and upstate South Carolina.
