About Elena Harper
Harper & Vale Group is a four-agent team built on a simple premise: one process, four sets of eyes, and a specialist for every west-suburban market they serve. Elena Harper and Marcus Vale founded the group in 2016 after a decade of working opposite sides of the same closings — Elena as the listing agent other agents studied, Marcus as the pricing analyst other agents called.
They structured the team the way a good practice is structured: Marcus runs the pricing desk and the Glen Ellyn market, Priya Raman leads buyer representation in Downers Grove, Tom Kowalski owns relocation and the Wheaton corridor, and Elena quarterbacks every listing launch personally. The group closed 96 transactions last year across Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, and Downers Grove, averaging 98.8% of list price with 13 days on market.
Every listing — at every price point — gets the same launch: a pricing memo built from the last ninety days of neighborhood closings, staging and photography included, and a coordinated first weekend across the MLS, the portals, and the neighborhood itself. Every buyer gets the specialist for their target market plus the pricing desk behind every offer.
Clients hire a team and get a team; nothing is handed off to an assistant. The group office sits on Front Street in Wheaton, a block from the Prairie Path, and all four agents live in the markets they sell.
Credentials
- IL Managing Broker License #471.088888
- Harper & Vale Group, an affiliate of Compass Points Realty LLC
Where Elena works
Figures from Elena's public agent profile.
Neighborhoods we know house by house
Arrowhead
Wheaton, IL 60189
Arrowhead is a Wheaton, IL neighborhood of about 521 homes, 89% of them owner-occupied, with a median year built of 1972. Southwest Wheaton neighborhood wrapped around the Arrowhead golf course and the Illinois Prairie Path.
- median
- $544K
- days
- 17
- active
- 6
Lakewood
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Lakewood is a Glen Ellyn, IL neighborhood of about 458 homes, 88% of them owner-occupied, with a median year built of 1964. Classic Glen Ellyn streets north of Lake Ellyn with 1950s-60s charmers and a growing wave of expansions.
- median
- $614K
- days
- 15
- active
- 5
Denburn Woods
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Denburn Woods is a Downers Grove, IL neighborhood of about 587 homes, 90% of them owner-occupied, with a median year built of 1979. North Downers Grove pocket of winding streets and mature woods minutes from the Main Street Metra stop.
- median
- $524K
- days
- 17
- active
- 6
Illustrative market figures for the Faro Sites demo — plausible, and fictional. A live site shows real closings with their source and the month they run through.
What sellers and buyers say
Elena priced our Lakewood house against three comps we never would have found, and Marcus defended the number when the appraisal came in light. We closed over ask.
Priya walked us through nine offers before we wrote the one that won. First house, five bidders, and we still paid under the peak comp.
Dad's house in Arrowhead had forty years of stuff in it. Tom handled the estate sale coordination, the as-is sale, and never once rushed him.
The team around Elena
One process, 4 sets of eyes on every deal, each with a neighborhood they know best.
Marcus Vale
Broker, Co-founder · Pricing Desk · IL #475.077777
Runs the group's pricing desk and the Glen Ellyn market. Fifteen years, 400+ transactions, and the person other agents call to sanity-check a comp.
Priya Raman
Broker Associate · Buyer Specialist · IL #475.066666
Heads the buyer side of the group. First-time buyers are her specialty — offer strategy that wins without overpaying, explained in plain language.
Tom Kowalski
Broker Associate · Relocation & Senior Transitions · IL #475.055555
Leads relocation and senior transitions in Wheaton. Trusted by two corporate relocation networks; patient with the moves that need patience.
Thinking about a move?
Start with a conversation and a real pricing analysis. No commitment, no pressure, and you'll know your numbers either way.