Boutique coastal realty since 2008

The houses
that don't list easily.

Your Business is a four-broker firm working the North Shore of Massachusetts — Marblehead, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverly, Salem. We sell sixty-something properties a year. We turn down twice that. Our specialty is the listing the seller couldn't quite explain, and the buyer who knew it the moment they walked in.

$487MSold · 2024
14 daysMedian time on market
97% listList-to-close ratio
Coastal home in Marblehead
— No. 142 · Just listed

Captain's House on Front Street

14 Front Street · Marblehead, MA
5 bed3.5 bath3,840 sqft0.42 ac
$3,250,000
Active listings

Six homes now showing on the North Shore.

A small portfolio is intentional. We list what we can sell with conviction — and we'd rather you walk a property in person than scroll through it.
Just listed
— No. 142

Captain's House on Front

14 Front St · Marblehead
5 bed3.5 bath3,840 sqft
$3,250,000
Under offer
— No. 138

Studio over the Cove

22 Crocker Pk · Marblehead
3 bed2 bath2,180 sqft
$1,895,000
Open Sun
— No. 141

Shingled Cape on Smith's

9 Smith's Pt · Manchester
4 bed3 bath2,940 sqft
$2,475,000
Just listed
— No. 140

Federal Townhouse

86 Chestnut St · Salem
4 bed2.5 bath3,180 sqft
$1,650,000
Under offer
— No. 137

Cottage at Pride's Crossing

4 Curtiss Rd · Beverly
3 bed2 bath1,840 sqft
$1,275,000
Coming soon
— No. 143

Stone & Slate Carriage Hse

11 Atlantic Ave · Marblehead
5 bed4 bath4,210 sqft
$4,100,000
The bench

Four brokers.
One firm.

No team rosters, no junior associates ghost-shadowing. When you sign with Your Business you work directly with the broker whose name is on the listing.

Eleanor Whitfield

— Founding broker

Twenty-two years on the North Shore. Specialist in pre-1900 captains' homes and waterfront estates. Lives in a 1789 saltbox she still hasn't finished restoring.

MA · GRI · CRB

James Holcombe

— Senior broker

Joined in 2014 from a Boston commercial firm. Represents buyers relocating from Greater Boston and runs the firm's off-market network across Manchester and Beverly Cove.

MA · ABR · CIPS

Rosa Della Rocco

— Senior broker

Salem-born, Tufts-trained urban planner before she sold her first house in 2017. Quietly responsible for two of the firm's three highest-ever sales.

MA · SRES · GRI

Theo Kemp

— Buyer's broker

Works exclusively with buyers — first-time, relocating, and luxury. Will walk a hundred houses before he calls one a fit. Half the firm's referrals come from his clients.

MA · ABR · MRP
The map

Four villages.
One coastline.

We don't list outside our drive. The North Shore is twelve miles of granite coast and hundreds of years of housing stock — knowing it block by block is the entire point.
Marblehead
Federal-era harbor town with the sailing capital of New England buried inside. We list more here than anywhere — historic district, Front Street, the Neck, and Clifton.
Median $1.4M2024 sold 184Our share 22%
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Quiet beach town with Smith's Point and Singing Beach. Old-money Boston enclave that turns over carefully and rarely. We do most of our work here off-market.
Median $2.1M2024 sold 62Our share 31%
Beverly Cove
Pride's Crossing, Beverly Farms, and the Cove itself — varied stock from Victorian colonials to mid-century modernist gems on the rocks. Strong rental fallback.
Median $985K2024 sold 211Our share 14%
Salem historic
McIntire Historic District, Chestnut Street, and the Common. Federal townhouses and Italianate brownstones — strong appreciation, walkable, an hour to Boston by commuter rail.
Median $745K2024 sold 248Our share 9%
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— Eleanor Whitfield, founding broker

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From clients

Letters,
kept on file.

We don't ask for testimonials. Every word here came from a card, an email, or a hand-delivered note over the last seven years.
Rosa walked us through fourteen houses in Salem before she said "this one." She was right. We've been here three years and we still find new things to love.
The Donovan familyChestnut St, Salem · 2022
Eleanor sold our grandfather's house in Marblehead the way you'd sell your own. I cried twice in the closing. Both times she pretended not to notice.
Margaret Holm-WebbFront St, Marblehead · 2023
James found us a house off-market in Manchester that wasn't on the MLS for forty-five days. We'd been looking for fourteen months. He just knew.
Devon and Yusuf AliSmith's Point, Manchester · 2024