A Bit About Us
Full Service Real Estate Brokerage
Enhancing Communities, One Project At A Time
Sterling Real Estate, LLC is a performance driven, Deleware-based, real estate brokerage that leverages a collective 125 years of operating experience in the Delaware and Pennsylvania markets. The entrepreneurial spirit and diverse operational background of our principles, and superior execution capabilities to create long-term value for our clients, investors, employees, and the communities in which we operate.
Our Specialties
Residential Sales & Leasing
Property Management
Renovations
Residential Investment Management
Our Mission
To provide best-in-class residential real estate solutions, backed by superior service.
Our Values
Our aim is to be the residential real estate company most admired for its people, performance, and professionalism. To do this we try to keep our values simple:
Building long-term client and partner relationships based on trust and respect
Fostering a culture of optimism, opportunity, teamwork and resourcefulness where everyone can make a difference
Being known for consistently doing the little things and the big things, well
Conducting our corporate activities with the highest ethical and professional standards
Innovation in the fields of property search, marketing, and management
Sterling Real Estate relies on the in-house expertise of its people and an extensive network of third party professionals to ensure that transactions are as seamless and accommodating to the customer as possible.
Our Team
Sterling Real Estate is led by Senior Co-Founder and Broker Jay Freebery. As President, Mr Freebery brings over 20 years experience in underwriting, acquiring, repositioning, managing, refinancing, and exiting single-family housing assets.
We Work With:
Buyers and Sellers
Property Owners
Tenants
Accredited Investors
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Prior to joining Chatham Bay in 2006, Mr. Freebery served as the Director of Asset Management for Brandywine Realty Management, a residential investment and management firm, from 2003 to 2006. In this capacity, Mr. Freebery was responsible for managing all leasing and capital improvements on Brandywine’s 500-plus unit single family portfolio. From 2010-2014 Mr. Freebery also served as Principal of American Residential, a single-family rental joint venture with Dr. Peter Linneman which successfully deployed over $140M of equity into the SFR space on behalf of institutional investors.
Mr. Freebery is also a Principal at Chatham Bay Group and Co-Founder and President of Chatham Bay Construction Services, a full service construction management company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
Additionally, Mr. Freebery is a Director and Vice President of the Chatham Bay Foundation, a public non-profit organization created to promote conservation of the marine environment. The foundation funds and manages a program in conjunction with the Department of the Army and the Walter Reed Army Hospital to teach scuba diving to wounded soldiers returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of their therapy and rehabilitation.
Mr. Freebery earned his bachelor of science from the University of Tampa and his M.B.A. from Wilmington University. He is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Delaware and a member of the Urban Land Institute.
