ABOUT HITCHCOCK REALTY & ASSOCIATES
Your home is personal. Your investment is serious. You deserve more than a sales pitch.
Hitchcock Realty & Associates, LLC is an independent, family-run real estate and property management firm located in Morehead City, North Carolina. Since 2005, we have served clients throughout Carteret County and the Crystal Coast, including Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle, Newport, Down East, and Swansboro, as well as surrounding communities in Craven and Onslow counties.
We built our firm around a simple belief: clients should never have to chase their real estate agent or property manager for answers.
That means communicating before you have to ask, explaining your options in plain language, paying attention to the details, and giving you honest advice-even when it may not be the easiest answer. We do not believe in treating people like transactions, properties like numbers, or important decisions like paperwork that simply needs to be pushed across a desk.
Hitchcock Realty & Associates is led by Margaret Hitchcock and her daughter, Sylvia Rola Russell. We bring two generations, different perspectives, complementary strengths, and one shared standard for how our clients should be treated. As a mother-and-daughter team, our names are on the company-and so is our reputation. We take both personally!
Some of our clients are purchasing their first home on the Crystal Coast. Others are selling a longtime family property, relocating with the military, investing in real estate, or trusting us to manage a valuable rental home while they live hundreds-or even thousands-of miles away. Every situation carries its own pressures, priorities, and emotions. Our job is to understand what matters to you and help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Buying or Selling a Home:
Real estate decisions can be exciting, but they can also become complicated quickly. Our role is to bring calm, organization, and experienced guidance to the process.
We help buyers understand the property, the market, and the terms of the transaction-not simply open doors. We help sellers prepare, position, and market their homes thoughtfully-not simply place them in the MLS and wait. Throughout the transaction, we remain involved, accessible, and focused on protecting our client’s interests.
Property Management:
Owning a rental property should not mean constantly worrying about what is happening inside it.
For our property owners, we serve as their eyes and ears on the ground. We carefully oversee tenant relations, rent collection, maintenance coordination, inspections, lease compliance, and the many day-to-day details that protect both the property and the owner’s investment.
We understand the level of trust required to place a home in someone else’s care, particularly for military families and owners living outside the area. We take that responsibility seriously and provide the communication, accountability, and transparency owners need to feel connected to their property wherever they may be.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is straightforward: do the work well, tell the truth, protect our clients’ interests, and communicate consistently.
We measure success by more than closings, contracts, and leases. We measure it by whether our clients felt heard, informed, and well represented-and whether they would trust us again or recommend us to someone they care about.
Our goal has never been to become the loudest real estate firm on the Crystal Coast. It is to be the firm people remember for showing up, following through, and doing what we said we would do.
If that is the kind of real estate relationship you are looking for, we would be honored to work with you.
Take a moment to MEET OUR AGENTS or READ OUR CLIENT REVIEWS to learn what others have shared about their experience with our firm.