Maria Kazakos

In 2025, Maria Kazakos navigated a challenging market to deliver impressive results for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas Companies. Under her leadership, the firm achieved year-over-year growth in both unit and sales volume, bucking national trends. Kazakos’s commitment to a high-support, full-service model proved a powerful recruitment tool, attracting numerous top-performing agents from competing firms. She also significantly expanded the company’s new homes marketing and sales division, successfully launching several new residential communities throughout the year.

Beyond financial performance, Kazakos deepened the company’s community impact through the “We Make Great Neighbors” initiative. In 2025, the firm’s Fall Food Drive contributions surged by over 20%, providing nearly 126,000 meals, while the Backpack 2 School drive delivered nearly 1,500 supply-filled backpacks to local foster children. Additionally, Kazakos grew the firm’s mentorship program with Johnson C. Smith University, personally mentoring students each semester.

“If you take care of people, the business takes care of itself,” Kazakos says. This philosophy has allowed her to build on a legacy spanning generations while ensuring the company remains the region’s most trusted real estate partner. “It is a privilege to be able to continue to cast the vision and build on that which this company has been built on for generations.”