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Public Relations and Brand Storytelling

Telling the story of the people and organizations behind the most remarkable names in property.

A public relations and brand storytelling studio for the founders of luxury real estate, building, development, commercial property, and design firms.

Positioning

Luxury aesthetics.
Insider fluency.

We know how your buyers, investors, and partners actually decide, so we build the coverage and the story that earns their trust.

MANA PR is a public relations and brand storytelling practice for founders, developers, and companies in the built environment. Twenty years in luxury home sales and real estate investment across South Carolina, Hawai'i, Portugal, and Central America, and participation in more than $149 million in residential sales, mean we understand your clientele, your process, and your relationship driven sales cycle intimately before we write a word. That fluency is paired with the instincts of a published author and working artist: the ability to find the true story inside a company and set it before its market in a way that lasts.

$149M+

Residential sales participated in

20+

Years in luxury sales and investment

4

Markets: SC, HI, Portugal, Central America

1

Published author and working artist

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Who we serve

I

Luxury Residential Agents

Personal brands built to outlast a listing cycle, with editorial presence, press placement, and a story clients repeat.

II

Luxury Home Builders

Craft made legible. We translate materials, methodology, and provenance into desire.

III

Commercial Real Estate

Institutional credibility in a human register, positioning the firm for capital, tenants, and municipalities alike.

IV

Architects and Design Studios

Portfolio narratives and monographs that place practice within culture, not merely the market.

V

Developers

Hotels, wellness centers, multifamily, and residential communities. We define the brand story and the market it speaks to, then earn the coverage: editorial relationships, press releases, press pages, and features. We do not run ad campaigns, we work alongside your marketers so the campaign says the right thing.

The studio

A memorable impression,
made deliberately.

A brand is not a logo or a listing. It is the impression that remains after the showing ends. It is the sentence a client repeats to a spouse, the reason an architect is remembered when the commission arrives. We build that impression from the inside out, beginning with the founder's history, the craft of the work, and the market's unspoken desires.

The result is European in restraint and American in ambition: earth toned, quietly confident, and constructed to hold value the way the work itself does.

"Real connection is the only luxury that cannot be staged."

Services

Engagements are retained or project based, and always led personally.

01

Brand Story and Positioning

Founder narrative, company history, market position, message architecture, and the sentence your market will repeat for you.

02

Press Kits and Placement

Relationships and pitches across shelter, design, business, and regional press. Earned, never purchased.

03

Editorial and Authorship

Long form features, articles, press releases, press pages, project monographs, ghostwritten books and columns.

04

Film and Campaigns

Brand films, founder profiles, launches and milestones staged as cultural moments with press ready assets.

05

Visual Direction

Advertising and art direction for photography, film, and print, including property marketing where it serves the company story.

06

Advisory Retainers

Ongoing counsel across marketing, spokesperson prep, and reputation for principals and their teams.

07

Corporate Event Consulting

Groundbreakings, openings, gallery previews, and client dinners staged as press worthy moments in your company story.

08

Brand Strategy for Developments

Positioning and naming for wellness centers, hotels, and residential communities. We define what the place stands for before the first brochure is written.

09

Sales Cycle and Messaging Strategy

Message architecture mapped to a relationship driven sales cycle, so the story your team tells builds trust at every stage from first contact to closing.

Packages and subscriptions

Enquiries

Let's find the story
worth telling.

Selective engagements, beginning with a conversation about your market, your portfolio, and the impression you intend to leave.

Email
manarootsllc@gmail.com
Telephone
+1 828.575.8804
Studio
Asheville, NC & Charleston, SC
Markets
United States & European Union