Strategic Guidance
& Local Experience
At Around Tryon Properties, we’re not just real estate agents— we’re local partners with insights into our local community, offering connections and resources to every client.
With deep roots in Tryon and Polk County, we bring a lifetime of experiences helping buyers relocate here, find the property that fits their plans and goals. We bring experience and insights to sellers - local or long distance - to help them prepare, market and get their properties sold to qualified buyers using our long time connections with local professionals. We bring our knowledge annd experience with investment analysis, and property management to every transaction.
Strategic pricing and market insight
Deep local community knowledge
Personalized tours and evaluations
Expertise from negotiation to closing
Lynne Perlmutter
Broker Owner & Market Strategist
Lynne Perlmutter has been in real estate for over 25 years — buying & selling with friends and clients, advising on investments, managing properties, and coordinating everything from closing complications to clutter. Licensed in NC, SC, & Florida, and she’s worked in every swing of market conditions and brings that experience to help clients plan their purchases, sales and holdings to best meet their needs and strategize market timing. Her early professional life life in Miami was in public television, financial PR, magazine publishing, film production. Her clients always remember that when everything felt overwhelming, Lynne already knew what to do next. She's a fixer. That's the whole philosophy.
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Why Buyers Choose Us
Local Experts, Trusted Matchmakers, Deeply Connected
Chrelle Booker
Senior Expert & Broker Associate
Chrelle Booker is third-generation Polk County — and instead of leaving, she stayed and spent her career in service to the place that raised her.
A licensed broker in both NC and SC, she served as the only woman of color on the Tryon Board of Commissioners and Mayor Pro-Tem, a first in over 140 years. She served as the 2023 national President of Women in Municipal Government and on the National League of Cities Board of Directors — bringing a small town's voice into rooms where small towns don't always get a seat.
An award-winning television producer, director, and morning drive radio personality, Chrelle has always understood the power of storytelling. She brings that same gift — and a lifetime of deep roots — to every client conversation.
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Extensive knowledge of Tryon, Columbus, Landrum, Saluda, Mill Spring, Greek Creek, Lake Lure, Lake Adger
Hyper-local insight with third-generation Polk County native
Top-tier negotiation skills
Strategic match-making between buyers and properties
Hands-on support throughout the buying process
