Orders to San Diego. A job in Charlotte. Retirement in Florida. Whatever is pulling you out of the 757, you have two real-estate problems at once: selling here on a deadline and finding someone you can trust there, in a market you don’t know. I solve both from one conversation. I list and sell your Hampton Roads home personally, and I hand-pick the agent who takes care of you at the other end — interviewed by me, held to my standards, and reporting back to me until you close. It costs you nothing extra.
Leaving Hampton Roads for orders, a job, retirement or family? John King handles the Hampton Roads side of the move personally — selling your home here, or buying or selling anything you still need to close here — and matches you with a personally vetted real estate agent in the city you are going to, anywhere in the U.S. If you rent here and have nothing to sell, the match still happens, with the same vetting. No cost to you, one point of contact for both ends, timelines coordinated so you are not paying two mortgages or carrying a vacant house. Written and kept current by John King — U.S. Navy veteran and REALTOR® with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty, Virginia license 0225211050 — 441 closings across Hampton Roads since 2014, 44.2% of the 428 MLS transactions VA-financed, 5.0 stars on 121 Google reviews. Call or text (757) 290-1324.
Last reviewed October 11, 2026 · Market figures: Redfin, three months ending August 31, 2026 · Closing record: REIN MLS, June 2014 – August 2026
Leaving Hampton Roads?
Tell John where you're headed and when. He'll call within one business day with a price and timeline for your home here, and can connect you with an agent where you're going.
Prefer to start online? Get a free home value report → · or call/text (757) 290-1324
Two problems at once — the transaction here and the agent there. The Hampton Roads half is mine personally; the destination half is an agent I choose for you.
Pricing from live REIN MLS comps, my digital marketing system, negotiation and closing, remote if you're already gone. Then I coordinate the closing here with your purchase there so the dates and the equity line up.
How I sell it →No home to list means no fee to anyone — and I still interview and hand-pick a buyer's or rental agent in your destination city, brief them on your dates, and stay in the loop until you're settled. Same vetting, same zero cost.
Get matched →Buying a rental to keep while you're gone, selling one you already own, closing on a home for family staying behind, or a sell-and-buy in the same month — whichever side of a Hampton Roads deal you're on, it's my job, and the destination agent is still yours at no cost.
Sell vs. rent it out →You can. Here is what you get instead when you let me make the introduction.
Five steps. You make one call; I make the rest.
Destination city, your timeline (report date, start date, or “sometime next spring”), and whether you’re buying or renting there. If you own here, whether you plan to sell or hold.
Two minutesI pull candidates from the BHHS network and my own referral relationships, call them, and check production, reviews and fit. Military move? I only shortlist agents with real VA and PCS experience.
Within 2 business daysI introduce you by phone or email with a short note on why I chose them. If it’s not the right fit after the first conversation, tell me and I’ll bring you another name. No awkwardness — that’s my job.
Your callI list your Hampton Roads home and run the sale personally — pricing, marketing, negotiation, closing, remote if you’ve already moved. I stay in contact with your destination agent so the two closings line up.
CoordinatedYou close here and there on a schedule that works. The receiving agent’s brokerage pays my brokerage a referral fee from their commission. Nothing comes out of your pocket for the introduction.
At closingEvery state, every major metro, plus overseas through the BHHS global network. These are the destinations Hampton Roads families ask me about most often.
Pacific Fleet orders. High-cost markets where VA jumbo and BAH math decide the plan.
The most common Navy move out of Norfolk. No state income tax changes the buy-vs-rent answer.
Pentagon, NAVSEA, contractor moves. Competitive, fast, expensive — the agent matters here.
Nuclear and sub-force pipelines out of Hampton Roads.
Camp Lejeune, Fort Liberty, Charlotte and the Triangle — retirees and job moves alike.
Retirement and cost-of-living moves. I’ve placed clients in Tampa, Orlando, San Antonio, Austin and Nashville.
Pearl Harbor, Yokosuka, Rota, Naples. Overseas orders usually mean selling or renting here — I’ll walk you through both options.
Close enough to drive, far enough that you still need a local agent. Not my market — I’ll match you with someone whose market it is.
The half of the move I handle personally. Three situations, three different plans.
Report dates don’t move, so the plan starts from your date and works backward: list date, the price that sells inside the window, and a closing that doesn’t leave you paying two housing bills. If you’re weighing selling against renting the house out, the numbers — VA entitlement, tax, cash flow — are on the sell-or-rent guide, and the full PCS process is on the military PCS page.
Start dates, relocation packages, buyout offers and the temptation to accept a low number just to be done. The job-relocation home sale guide covers how I price and market a home to hit a deadline without a fire sale, and how to read a relocation company’s offer.
I sell homes every month for owners who are already in Florida, California or overseas. Remote listing paperwork, my team handling access and vendors, weekly video updates, and electronic closing. The selling page covers pricing and marketing; the as-is option covers the case where you don’t want to fix anything from 2,000 miles away.
A free valuation from recent sales in your subdivision — not an algorithm — tells you what you’re carrying to the next place. That figure drives the whole plan at both ends. Request your Hampton Roads home value, or read the 13-year sales study to see how homes like yours have actually sold here.
I’ve been on the receiving end of hundreds of referrals. I know what a bad handoff looks like, so here is the checklist I run before your name goes to anyone.
What the introduction costs you. The receiving agent pays a referral fee to my brokerage from their commission; your price, your terms and your representation are unaffected.
A referral is only as good as the person making it. Every figure below is from my REIN MLS record, published in full on the 13-year transaction study.
I’m a Navy veteran (Machinist Mate, five years) with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty, Virginia license #0225211050. Agents around the country send their clients to me when those clients are headed to Hampton Roads; this page is the same relationship running the other way. The agents I refer to know that if they take care of you, the next family I send them is theirs too — and that if they don’t, there won’t be one.
Tell me where you’re headed and when. You’ll hear from me today, and you’ll have a vetted introduction within two business days.
Call or text, any day
(757) 290-1324What to include: where you’re moving, your date (or best guess), whether you’re buying or renting there, and whether you own a home here you plan to sell. Military? Add your branch and whether you’ll use a VA loan. Everything else we’ll cover on the call.
No. The agent who helps you at your destination pays a referral fee to my brokerage out of their own commission, under a broker-to-broker agreement. Your purchase price, your terms and the representation you receive are exactly what they would be if you had found that agent yourself.
No. Plenty of people I match are renters, or owners who plan to keep their house as a rental. If you are selling here, doing both with me means the two closings are coordinated by one person, which is usually the point — but the introduction stands on its own.
I start with the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices referral network and my own relationships, then interview two or three agents by phone: recent closings in your specific area, experience with your situation (VA loans and PCS timelines, corporate relocation, retirement), reviews, and how quickly they respond. A written referral agreement is in place before I introduce you. If the best agent for you isn’t in the BHHS network, I refer outside it.
Tell me, and I bring you another name. You are under no obligation to work with the first introduction, and I would rather hear it early than have you stuck with a bad fit. The referral agreement is between brokerages; it never binds you.
Yes, through the BHHS global network in 13 countries, and through military-relocation agents near overseas installations. For most overseas orders the bigger question is what to do with your home here — sell, or rent it out — and I’ll walk you through that decision first.
That is the first thing I screen for on a military move. I only shortlist agents with real VA-loan closings and PCS experience, and I brief them on your report date before you speak. On my end, 189 of my closings were VA-financed, so I know what to look for.
It depends on your equity, your VA entitlement if you used one, the rent the home can command, and whether you ever plan to come back. I lay the numbers out on the sell-or-rent guide and will run them for your specific house on the first call. There’s no wrong answer, but there is usually a clearly better one.
Yes, and I do it every month. Listing paperwork is electronic, my team handles access, staging and vendors, you get weekly video updates, and you sign at closing wherever you are. You don’t need to come back.
From me, the same day you reach out. Your introduction to a vetted agent follows within two business days — sometimes the same day if your destination is one I refer to often. If you have a report date inside thirty days, say so and I move faster.
That page is for real estate agents in other markets sending clients to Hampton Roads, where I’m the receiving agent. This page is for people leaving Hampton Roads, where I’m the one making the referral. Same relationships, opposite direction.
One conversation covers both ends of the move: your home sold here, an agent you can trust waiting there, and nothing extra out of your pocket for the introduction.
John King · Navy veteran, Machinist Mate · REALTOR® with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty · License #0225211050 · Serving Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Hampton & Newport News
Case studies
Selling here on a timeline, from wherever you are. Each one links to its source — the full write-up, the client's own review on Zillow or Google, or John on camera.
Told 90 days, sold in under 40
Foxhill, Hampton · sold August 2025
Expired listing → sold in 4 days
Glenwood, Virginia Beach · closed March 24, 2026
Source: Full case study · Zillow review of a Salem-zone relist (March 2026)
Waterfront listing → 153 days with no offers, then sold
Elizabeth River, Norfolk · 442 Leepoint Road
Source: Full case study
The wider record: 441 closings across 13 years, analyzed · 121 five-star Google reviews · 81 on Zillow.
Watch
Selling a Hampton Roads home you no longer live in, and getting a straight read during a life change. Each video has a written transcript below it.
Selling a home remotely. It's more common than you might think, and I've done it hundreds of times. Whether you've already PCS'd, relocated for work, or inherited a property across the country, selling a home you're not living in is totally doable, and I handle remote listings all the time. We coordinate everything for you virtually, from photography, staging consultation, showings, negotiations, and closing. You don't need to be here. You just need an agent who has the systems to manage it all without you standing in the kitchen, and one who is experienced managing projects just like this. When you put me in charge, I make sure the job gets done and that the mice are not playing while the cat is away. If you need to get a home sold, whether you are local or out of the area, reach out to me directly anytime. 757-290-1324. I'll see you.
If you're dealing with a divorce, a PCS move, a retirement, or any other major life change, and selling your home here in Hampton Roads is part of the picture, the last thing you need is more noise. What actually helps is a straight read on where you stand, what your goals are, what your home is worth right now, what your timing looks like, and what your real options are. Big decisions get harder when everything feels uncertain. They usually get a lot easier once you have the facts right in front of you. If you're in that situation here in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, or anywhere in the area, I'm here when you're ready, and I'll see you around town.
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