⸺About The Team
Built on relationships, growth, and intentional leadership.
Our story
"We built this team the way we'd want to be treated. The way we wished someone had treated us when we started."
The Handal Team started the same way every real practice does: by picking up the phone, showing up early, and refusing to disappear after the closing.
Carlos and Nelly came to real estate from different angles. Carlos brought a background in construction and investment, a strategist's mind for negotiation and growth. Nelly brought relentless organization, deep client care, and the bilingual fluency that opened doors others didn't even know existed in Greenville.
Four hundred closings later, they're still operating the same way. Family-built. Bilingual at the core. Personal in a business that almost never is.
This team exists because they want to grow the practice without losing what made it work. That means building it with agents who care the same way they do, not filling seats.
⸺Meet carlos
⸺Meet carlos
Carlos Handal
Team Leader · Co-founder · REALTOR®
Carlos leads the team's strategy, negotiation, and investment work. His background in construction and development means he sees properties the way builders do, which means his clients buy and sell smarter than the market average.
If you're an agent on this team, Carlos is the person who'll sit with you on a deal, talk through the offer strategy, and tell you the truth about where the value is.
Strategy
Business Growth
Construction + Development
Negotiation
Leadership
Investment
⸺Meet nelly
Nelly Handal
Co-founder · REALTOR®
Nelly is why clients refer this team for life. She runs the experience: the communication, the follow-through, the moments that other agents skip. She speaks Spanish like family, not like a service, and that's changed who gets to feel at home in Greenville.
For agents on the team, Nelly is the one who'll teach you how to actually keep a client for the next 20 years. Not for the next closing.
Client Experience
Organization
Team Culture
Communication
Relationships
Bilingual Service
⸺ Our Philosophy
Four things we believe, without exception.
01
Collaboration over competition.
We share what's working. We don't hoard deals or playbooks. The team grows when the team grows.
02
Relationships over transactions.
A client isn't a closing. A closing is the start of a relationship that should last twenty years.
03
Consistency compounds.
Showing up every day, with the same people, doing the same things well. That's the entire formula.
04
Systems create freedom.
The right CRM, the right pipeline, the right follow-up sequence. Built once, run forever. That's what gives you your life back.
⸺ Why Real Broker
A brokerage built for this era.
A brokerage built for this era.
Collaboration
A platform built around shared knowledge, not siloed offices.
innovation
Modern tech stack. No fax machines, no 2008 broker software.
scalability
Infrastructure that grows with you instead of capping your ceiling.
agent-first
The economics and the culture both put the agent at the center.
long-term vision
A partner we're going to be with for decades, not quarters.
Home is where your story begins.
A bilingual real estate team serving Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina. Family-built. Relationship-first.
The Handal Team is a real estate team operating under Real Broker, LLC.
© 2025 The Handal Team. All rights reserved.
⸺ Contact the team
Carlos Handal
(864) 908-2353
Nelly Handal
(864) 867-6840
(864) 867-6840
213 E Butler Rd
Mauldin, SC 29662
Let's talk about your goals.