Harper & Vale Group is a four-agent team built on a simple premise: one process, four sets of eyes, and a specialist for every west-suburban market they serve. Elena Harper and Marcus Vale founded the group in 2016 after a decade of working opposite sides of the same closings — Elena as the listing agent other agents studied, Marcus as the pricing analyst other agents called.

They structured the team the way a good practice is structured: Marcus runs the pricing desk and the Glen Ellyn market, Priya Raman leads buyer representation in Downers Grove, Tom Kowalski owns relocation and the Wheaton corridor, and Elena quarterbacks every listing launch personally. The group closed 96 transactions last year across Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, and Downers Grove, averaging 98.8% of list price with 13 days on market.

Every listing — at every price point — gets the same launch: a pricing memo built from the last ninety days of neighborhood closings, staging and photography included, and a coordinated first weekend across the MLS, the portals, and the neighborhood itself. Every buyer gets the specialist for their target market plus the pricing desk behind every offer.

Clients hire a team and get a team; nothing is handed off to an assistant. The group office sits on Front Street in Wheaton, a block from the Prairie Path, and all four agents live in the markets they sell.