Ann Harold

Greetings, I’m Ann Harold, Broker/Owner of French Broad Real Estate Company, looking forward to serving all your real estate needs in Madison, Buncombe, Yancey, and surrounding Counties here in beautiful Western North Carolina.

Over 20 years ago, she began visiting Western North Carolina with her family. They fell in love with the area and decided to purchase a second home here. At that time, she was a Realtor® with a thriving referral-based business in intown Atlanta and has been practicing real estate full time for 30 years. In fact, her parents and grandparents were in real estate so you can say real estate is in her blood. Many years ago, she found she couldn’t just continue to come to WNC for brief visits but felt it was finally time to transition from the metropolitan Atlanta lifestyle to a rural lifestyle which she had desired to do for a long time.

After visiting Asheville for many years, she knew this was her home and landed in Madison County where she has never looked back. She has dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, cows and has been known to keep bees from time to time. They enjoy the amazing opportunities this area has to offer including hiking, skiing, and rafting on the French Broad River, to highlight a few. She has a forty-one-acre farm in the Revere Community of Marshall where she built a beautiful energy efficient SIPS/Timber Frame home and enjoys growing a vegetable and flower garden in the Spring, Summer & Fall. She opened the office of French Broad Real Estate Company in 2009 as a boutique, single broker, MLS® office, and has since added a few talented brokers. FBREC is hyper local and embedded in our local community by staying involved and financially supporting the non-profits that do important work in our area.

When you collaborate with a local firm the ripple effect really does benefit the surrounding communities. Their primary focus is on listening to and helping their clients realize their real estate goals rather than a profit-driven business model that you can get with “big box” real estate firms.