Nina Parker built her North Carolina real estate company to 180 agents


To Nina Parker, it seems as though the odds have always been against her — but that hasn’t stopped her from building a $650 million luxury real estate firm in North Carolina.

Parker, operating principal and owner at Keller Williams Legacy Apex, outside Raleigh, was born and raised in Sweden. The education scale in Sweden made her feel like she was never going to get the opportunities she wanted, whereas she found that in the United States, “It doesn’t matter what your background is.”

“You…

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