Our Founder

Milam has a long record of successfully guiding local, semi-local and national clients with their residential and commercial real estate acquisitions. Starting his career in 1978 in Charleston, West Virginia, he sold homes with a local franchised real estate office before taking over as the Assistant Director of Sales for Smith Mountain Realty in Moneta, Virginia in 1981. Leading an entire sales division over the next five years, Paul was in charge of selling 12 lakefront resort communities in Moneta.

In 1986, Paul and his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina and began working with mentor and friend, Don Gilstrap. As a broker in Wrightsville Beach, Paul opened his own real estate brokerage, Milam Williams & Associates, and sold more than $600 million in real estate volume over the next five years.

In 1993, Paul franchised his brokerage with Coldwell Banker. Starting with just two agents, Paul organically grew the company, Coldwell Banker SeaCoast to more than 125 agents five years later at the time of the sale of his company.

From 1997 on, Paul focused on new home developments and new builder inventory at Lake Hogan Farms in Chapel Hill, NC and then Henson Farms, Henson Forest, Autumn Lake, Riverside, and various active adult communities in the Triad (Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem).

Milam holds the designation of Certified Senior Advisor (CSA), Certified Aging in Place specialist (CAPS), and Senior Real Estate Specialist SRES and Triad Retirement Living Association (TRLA).

Paul holds the distinguished certification of Accredited Land Consultant (ACL) from the National Association of Realtors and Realtors Land Institute.  ACLs are the most prestigious, most accomplished, most experienced, and highest-performing land experts.  There are less than 800 ACLs across the United States and only about 60 in North Carolina.