MAVERICK REAL ESTATE A Comprehensive and Family-Oriented Approach to Real Estate

Article by Aya Furin-Campbell

Photography by Tracey Marlene

With over 20 years of experience and a passion for helping clients find the perfect place for them, Chad Morton of Maverick Real Estate may be the perfect real estate agent for anyone looking to buy in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Maverick Real Estate was founded five years ago as a family-owned business and has since proven itself to be a beloved and highly successful real estate company.Before working in real estate and eventually founding his own brokerage company, Morton was unaware of his own passion and aptitude for real estate. Formerly a teacher, Morton found that as he was working to inspire his students to go above and beyond, he was simultaneously inspiring himself.

“I had high school seniors, so I’m like, you guys can do incredible things! But I wasn’t really doing the things that I wanted to do. [There was] so much more that I felt I had to offer to the world in addition to what I was doing currently,” Morton said, “I realized I need to take my own advice and just get out there. I started a licensed real estate company and did some business that way and then went back into residential real estate and just fell in love with it. I love getting people to first homes. I love selling great homes. I love doing million-dollar deals just as much as $100,000 deals.”

Now the co-owner of Maverick Real Estate, Morton believes that selling real estate is more than what meets the eye. He is dedicated to his clients because he understands the importance and value of purchasing a home. In speaking on the most rewarding aspect of real estate, Morton said that it was forming connections with his clients and knowing that he is helping them to find the perfect fit for possibly the rest of their lives.

“The thing that struck me the most was that they said 96% of the people that you sell a house to in ‘96 are going to die in that house,”

Morton said, in reference to a statistic that he had learned in one of his classes back in 1996, “Every birthday, anniversary, childbirth grandchild birth, Christmas, holiday family function. This is it. So it’s a life-altering decision that the client is making, and you are a part of it.”

Although Washington D.C. is what Morton describes as a transient city, full of people coming and going, he estimates that that number is still as high as 80%, and always keeps that in mind when working towards finding the perfect fit for all of his client’s wants and needs. Morton understands that every client is different and that the decisions that they make around housing are extremely impactful to their lives, their family’s lives, and all of the above. He strives to ensure that everything falls into place perfectly when it comes to such life-altering decisions.

“We play a big role as a real estate agent. You have no idea of the things that people will share. You are a counselor, you are a motivator, you are a coach, and you are a friend,” Morton said, “And so as real estate agents, we try to keep in touch as best we can with our clients because they become like friends or even family in many cases.”