Bill Mullen

Bill Mullen began learning about Chapel Hill real estate before he began learning to drive a car. Bill moved to the middle of North Carolina at the age of four, his family following his father’s career as a journalism professor. His mother soon began entertaining the children by shuttling them among construction sites and open houses on Sunday afternoons, making games out of understanding floor plans or appreciating the differences in construction materials and methods. This peculiar adolescent sport stuck with him: After studying architecture, Bill ran a landscape-and-construction business with his brother for nearly two decades, obtaining in the process not only his real estate license but also his enthusiasm for Piedmont topography. A quarter-century later, few know the literal lay of this land so well—or are so enthused about sharing that knowledge. Though Bill has extensive ...