We know what sells before we build.
A family company in Cornelius, building across the Charlotte region since 1999.
27 years of experience.
Our family founded two companies and runs them side by side. Yates Development is the commercial side, led by Lane Yates. Yates Realty is the sales side, led by Sunny Yates. Both work out of one office in Cornelius, so every deal gets looked at from both sides.
Each company makes the other one better.
Yates Development.
Lane’s side. We buy land, build on it and lease it out.
Yates Realty.
Sunny’s side. Brokers who sell homes and land every day.
One family.
We sit at the same table, so the builders hear what buyers want.
Lane Yates
Lane founded Yates Development in 1999 and still leads every deal. He is also broker-in-charge of Yates Realty, so he weighs each site as both a builder and a broker.
In 2004 he started Salisbury Village: 192 apartment homes with retail lots out front, planned as one site from the start. He has been buying, building and holding commercial property across the Charlotte region ever since.
The family behind both companies.
What years in this business teach you.
We walk every site before we buy.
The grade, the road in and the drainage only show up on foot.
We plan the whole site at once.
Buildings, pads and roads are drawn together, so each phase fits the next.
Our brokers tell us what will sell.
Yates Realty is in the market every day. We build for what buyers ask for.
The same people stay through the end.
Whoever buys the land also builds it, leases it and sells it.
Software does the research first.
Scout and our own tools pull the records, comps and zoning, then run the first numbers. That leaves our people free for the land and the phone calls.
A person checks every number before we act on it.