About Grace Baird

Grace Baird started her real estate career the way very few people do: in Manhattan, during her senior year of college, while still competing on the swim team. A Carolina native who headed north to attend Wagner College, Grace earned her real estate license through an internship with a Manhattan firm before she even had her diploma in hand. What followed was nearly a decade of working in one of the most demanding, fast-moving real estate markets in the world. New York sharpens you quickly or it does not keep you, and Grace stayed. She developed sharp negotiation instincts, deep transactional knowledge across all property types, and the kind of composure under pressure that only comes from doing this work at that pace, in that market. Every deal she navigated in New York, every negotiation, every complex transaction, made her a sharper, more prepared advisor. She learned to read contracts carefully, move decisively, and stay calm when deals get difficult, skills that transfer directly to every client she serves today. Now she has brought all of that back home to the Carolinas, where she was raised and where she has always known she belonged. As a member of the Andy Bovender Team at Compass, Grace combines big-city experience with a relationship-driven, client-focused approach that feels distinctly southern. She works with buyers and sellers across all types of transactions, and no matter the complexity of the deal, her clients consistently come back to the same things: honest communication, consistent professionalism, and the genuine sense that Grace is fully in their corner from the first conversation to well after the closing. What she loves most about this work is not the closing. It is what comes after. Being there for clients through different chapters of their lives, a first purchase, a growing family, a next chapter they did not see coming, is what keeps her fully invested in every single transaction. She is not looking for a one-time client. She is looking for a lifelong one. That long-view approach shapes the way she communicates, the way she negotiates, and the way she shows up when things get complicated. It is also why so much of her business comes from people who have worked with her before, or from someone who has. Grace graduated with honors from Wagner College with a degree in Business Marketing and was a member of the collegiate swim team, a background that speaks to her discipline, her competitiveness, and her ability to stay focused under pressure. When she is not working, you can find her out for a run, trying a new restaurant, at the beach with friends, or at home with her Australian Labradoodle, Lulu, who has strong opinions about all of the above.