Real Estate 2025: WOLCOTT, BARBARA M.

A five-decade Hampton Roads real estate veteran, Wolcott leads a residential real estate and property management company created by the 2023 merger of Rose & Womble Realty and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Towne Realty.

With more than 750 agents across southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the firm has the backing of TowneBank and is a licensee of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway luxury real estate franchise.

In December 2024, the brokerage issued a public apology as part of a housing discrimination settlement with Dr. Raven Baxter. In May 2024, the white, 84-year-old owner of a Virginia Beach condo tried to cancel the residence’s sale after discovering Baxter was Black. RW Towne Realty represented the condo’s owner in the sale. The seller (whom Wolcott previously described as “horribly misguided”) and the brokerage reached a settlement with Baxter, who ultimately purchased a different home.

Wolcott is president of the Real Estate Information Network board, the region’s multiple listing service. She also serves on TowneBank’s Virginia Beach regional advisory board. A past Virginia Realtors president, she received a 2019 lifetime achievement award from the Hampton Roads Realtors Association.

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