RE/MAX Realty Central

Your Southern Illinois Real Estate Experts.

450 years of combined real estate experience

RE/MAX Realty Central

Your Trusted Southern Illinois Home Experts.

RE/MAX Realty Central brings a rich history of business skills, qualified professionals and the highest level of real estate service to Southern Illinois. Realty Central was established in 1992 and became an independently owned franchise of RE/MAX, the most recognized brand in real estate in the fall of 2021. RE/MAX Realty Central offers a rich legacy of excellent sales and the highest service, whether you are buying or selling a Home, Land, Commercial Property or Investment property. Your Southern Illinois Luxury home specialist, your RE/MAX agents can lead the way and they do it every day. All real estate agents are not the same. Our RE/MAX professionals have the tools, the technology, and the experience to bring your real estate goals and dreams to life. Put your trust in our office. No one outsells RE/MAX. No One!

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Meet Our Team

Bob Davenport

Managing Broker / Co-owner

Debbie Lence

Managing Broker

Camille Dorris

Broker

Debbie Michalesko

Broker

Janet McCready

Broker

John Nimmo

Broker

Karen Cupp

Broker, GRI, SERS

Rachel Chandler

Broker

Richard Cox

Broker

With our history and commitment to quality service, we offer you top industry standards, making us the #1 agency in sales for Jackson County in 2016.

Looking for an outstanding real estate agency to help you with your next move? Relax – you’ve found it at RE/MAX Realty Central. Welcome home!

As one of the region’s top sales people, Bob Davenport offers experience, service, and a lifetime of service as the hallmarks of his business. With almost 40 years in public safety experience, Bob brings negotiating, public speaking,and instructional experience to the table. Working with his wife Berneice at RE/MAX Realty Central, Carbondale Il Real Estate has been a family affair for over a decade for the Davenports. Knowledge, excellent customer service, and an ability to help clients with listing or buying have all helped to make him one of the region’s outstanding agents. Call Bob today to find out how he can help you!

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Why work with us?

Specializing in properties throughout the West Side, the South Bay and Orange County.

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Listing Alerts

We help you find the perfect home by taking your preferred price, aesthetics, location, lifestyle, nearby amenities, etc and set you up with personalized listing alerts. Whenever a listing hits the market that matches your criteria you will be immediately notified. This means that you will NEVER miss an opportunity.

Home Inspection

Here at RE/MAX Realty Central, we understand how important it is to use the right home inspector. Which is why we will guide you through the process of choosing the right one, going over every issue that may be revealed by it (even new constructions have minor issues), and help you determine which ones can be negotiated.

Vendor Network

As part of the Southern Illinois, we at RE/MAX Realty Central also work with an extensive network of vendors and contractors that offer us special deals for home repairs, furnishing, painting, plumbing, electrical work, gardening, and so much more.

Expert Advice

With over 450 years of combined experience in the real estate, we’ve helped hundreds of clients meet their home ownership goals. We’ve helped them secure financing, negotiate the best possible price tags and terms, smooth the moving process, settle into their new community, and so much more.

Negotiation Power

We will help you negotiate and secure the best possible price and terms for you. If you don’t find any home in your price range, we at RE/MAX Realty Central will suggest that it’s reasonable to look at homes that are over your maximum price range, but not more than this.

Client success stories

Find out why our clients love to work with us.

03/12/2022 - lucke15

"Robert Davenport is an excellent Realtor. He keep in contact and responded immediately to my inquiries. I will recommend him to others seeking to buy and/or sell a home."

03/10/2022 - Reginasmith6802

"Bob helped me to find a home that would fit me and would fit my personal sense of style. He showed me a number of homes in my price range and setup times for home I personally wanted to see. He was knowledgeable about any work that would need to be completed on the homes we viewed which help me make an informed decision. He was very prompt..."

03/10/2022 - jameswasson1

"So professional ! Made this such an easy experience!! All showings were made to fit my schedule as I woke from home! Listed and had multiple offers within three weeks!"

03/09/2022 - hswiger4

"Bob Davenport did a FABULOUS job taking care of all our needs every step of the way! He made selling our house a smooth transition. We would DEFINITELY recommend Bob Davenport to anyone who is looking to list their house!"