Say the true number
Our valuation is the number we would buy at, not the number that wins the listing appointment. Sellers hear the reasoning page by page.
Since 2014
A small studio, by choice
Eleven years on the peninsula, three studios, six agents and a deliberate cap on how much we take on.
How we got here
The studio started
with one listing
Rosalind Mercier spent eleven years at a large downtown firm before deciding that the part of the job she liked, sitting in someone's front room and telling them the truth about their house, kept getting squeezed out by volume targets.
Harbor & Vine opened in 2014 in one room on Vendue Range with a single listing and a borrowed table. The rule then is the rule now: every client gets one named agent, every valuation gets written reasoning, and nobody hears a number designed to flatter them.
Eleven years later there are six of us across three studios. We still cap the rental portfolio at around a hundred doors, and we still turn down assignments outside Charleston County when somebody else would serve them better.
We would rather lose the listing than win it with a number we do not believe.
Rosalind Mercier, founding broker in charge
Four things we
will not trade away
Show the crawl space
Every buyer gets written condition notes before they write. We would rather lose a sale than let someone inherit a rotten sill.
Stay after closing
The binder, the tradespeople, the annual check in. Two thirds of our business comes from people we have already worked for.
Keep the studio small
Six agents and 96 managed doors, deliberately. Growth past that would cost the thing clients actually pay us for.
Eleven years,
five turning points
Slow growth, mostly by referral. The studio has never run a billboard.
- 2014
Two desks on Vendue Range
Rosalind Mercier leaves a large downtown brokerage and takes one listing with her. The studio is a single room above a rug shop.
- 2017
The management desk opens
Naomi Fairbanks joins and the first twelve rental doors come under management. The maintenance line is a cell phone in her coat pocket.
- 2019
Mount Pleasant
Marisol Jimenez opens the Coleman Boulevard studio, and East Cooper becomes half our buyer work within two years.
- 2022
Commercial and the island
Theo Whitmarsh starts the commercial desk on King Street, and the Sullivan's Island room opens on Middle Street.
- 2026
Six agents, three studios
410 closings led, 96 doors managed, and the same rule: one named agent from the first conversation to the closing table.
Six agents, each with a specialty
You work with one named agent from the first conversation to the closing table. They answer their own phone.
Rosalind Mercier
Founding broker in charge
Historic peninsula and waterfront
Dev Anand Rao
Senior agent
Relocation and first purchases
Camille Boudreaux
Agent and leasing manager
Peninsula condos, lofts and rentals
Marisol Jimenez
Agent
Mount Pleasant and East Cooper families
Theo Whitmarsh
Commercial director
Retail, office and light industrial leasing
Naomi Fairbanks
Agent and property manager
Investment homes and management
Licensing and
credentials
Everything here is sample content for a demonstration website, presented the way a real brokerage would present it.
- SC Real Estate Commission Brokerage License #B-00000 (sample)Broker in charge: Rosalind Mercier, SC License #12345 (sample)
- Equal Housing OpportunityFair housing practice on every file, every enquiry, every showing
- Lowcountry Brokers GuildMember since 2016 (sample membership)
- Historic district experienceBoard of Architectural Review submissions supported since 2014
- Property management trust accountRent and deposits held in a designated account under South Carolina rules
- Errors and omissions coverMaintained for the brokerage and every licensed agent
Come and see us
Three studios between the harbor and the island, all with coffee and somewhere to spread out a plat.
Vendue Range studio
42 Vendue Range, Studio 3
Charleston, SC 29401Saturday10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Metered street parking on Vendue Range, garage on Cumberland Street
Mount Pleasant studio
308 Coleman Boulevard, Suite B
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464Saturday10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Free lot parking in front of the building
Sullivan's Island studio
2050 Middle Street, Unit 2
Sullivan's Island, SC 29482Saturday10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Marked spaces behind the building on Middle Street
Start with a conversation, not a contract
Tell us what you are weighing up. If the honest answer is to wait six months, that is what you will hear.
Sample figures shown across this site. 4.9 average from 187 closed clients.
