Chip James | Realtor, Coldwell Banker Heritage

Chip James is a licensed real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Heritage in Washington Township, and a member of Dayton REALTORS®.
Recent Sales ActivityOver the period since March 2026, MLS records show Chip on 13 closed sales (13 as the listing agent, 0 representing the buyer), about $9,506,200 in total sales volume. Most active in Centerville, Washington Township, Turtlecreek Township, Lebanon, Springboro and Fairborn.
Dayton Report Leaderboards3rd in Turtlecreek Township (2 sales)4th in Centerville (4 sales)
Overview
Chip James is a Real Estate Salesperson with Coldwell Banker Heritage, working from the brokerage’s office at 8534 Yankee Street in Washington Township. His business also operates under the name The James Group, and his personal site, Choosing Dayton, describes a practice built around buying and selling homes.
Since March 2026, MLS records show 13 closed sales carrying a combined volume of $9,506,200. All 13 were listing-side transactions, which makes the record a picture of a practice centered on representing sellers. The homes sold across seven areas of the Dayton region, from Fairborn in the east to Lebanon and Springboro in the south.
The figures that stand out most are speed and price. His listings reached a close at a median of 4 days on market, and the median sale-to-list ratio was 100.0%. Eight of the 13 sold at or above the asking price.
Sales record in numbers
The 13 closed sales since March 2026 total $9,506,200, an average of roughly $731,000 per sale. The middle of his range is higher than the average suggests in some respects: the median sale price was $595,000, with the lowest at $279,000 and the highest at $1,700,000. That spread, more than a million dollars from bottom to top, shows work across entry-level, mid-market and high-end homes.
Every one of the 13 sales was on the listing side, with no buyer-side closings in the period. Marketing time on those listings was brief. A median of 4 days on market means that, for at least half of his listings, the path from going live to going under contract was a matter of days rather than weeks.
Pricing outcomes were firm. The median sale-to-list ratio of 100.0% means the typical home closed at its list price, and 8 of 13 listings closed at or above asking. The remaining five closed somewhat below list.
The mix of property types is traditional. None of the sales were new construction, and none were multifamily. About 15% were renovated homes, which works out to roughly two of the 13. The rest were existing single-family homes sold in their current condition or with ordinary updates.
He recorded no sales in the city of Dayton or in West Dayton during this period. His work is concentrated in the suburban communities to the south and southeast of the city.
Where he works
Sales were spread across seven areas, with a clear concentration in the Centerville and Washington Township market. Seven of the 13 closings came from those two places together.
Centerville accounted for 4 sales, the most of any area. His median price there was $466,200, compared with an area median of $335,000. His Centerville listings therefore sat about $131,000 above the typical home price in the city.
Washington Township followed with 3 sales and a median of $620,000 against an area median of $400,000. This is also the township where his brokerage office is located.
Turtlecreek Township produced 2 sales at a median of $955,000, nearly double the area median of $500,000. It is the highest-priced concentration in his record besides the single Lebanon sale.
Lebanon had one sale, at $1,700,000, the top of his range. The area median there is $360,000, so that sale was a rare high-end transaction for the market.
Springboro had one sale at $475,000, against an area median of $420,000. Spring Valley Township had one sale at $795,000, compared with an area median of $545,000. Fairborn had one sale at $279,000, against an area median of $223,000, which was the lowest price in his record and the entry point of his range.
Across all seven areas, the price of his sale sat above the local median. Taken together, the pattern points to listings in the upper part of each local market, with the range extending from the low $200,000s to well over $1 million.
Background and credentials
Chip James is listed as a Real Estate Salesperson on both the Coldwell Banker Heritage brokerage page and the national Coldwell Banker agent page. The national page lists his city as Centerville, Ohio 45458. Records show he joined Coldwell Banker Heritage in 2025.
His career in real estate goes back to the late 2000s. Work history places him at Irongate Inc. from 2008 to 2014, then at Re/Max Victory beginning in 2014. From 2018 he was with Keller Williams Community Partners, and a later role at Premier Sotheby’s International Realty is listed from 2020. In September 2023 he appeared in a CNBC segment on the Dayton housing market, identified at the time as a Keller Williams Community Partners realtor and luxury specialist.
Published figures on his length of experience vary slightly: his Zillow profile cites 19 years, while a LinkedIn post describes him as a 17-year Realtor. Either way, he has well over a decade in the business.
His LinkedIn page lists a Dayton Region Ambassador credential under licenses and certifications, and records show he earned a bachelor’s degree at Miami University. His Zillow profile lists services including buyer’s agent, listing agent, relocation and staging. Zillow also reports 43 sales over the last 12 months and 495 total sales; those are platform-reported figures covering a longer period than the MLS window used here.
The Choosing Dayton website states that The James Group sold more than $20 million in 2025. That figure is self-reported.
How he compares locally
In the local leaderboards for the period since March 2026, Chip James ranks third in Turtlecreek Township with 2 sales and fourth in Centerville with 4 sales. Both placements came on relatively short time frames and modest counts, in markets where a handful of closings can shift the order.
The Turtlecreek Township ranking is notable given the price level. His two sales there closed at a median of $955,000, so a small count carried a substantial share of dollar volume in the township.
In Centerville, four closings put him among the top few producers in the city for the period, with a median price about 39% above the area median of $335,000.
Taken together, the record shows a listing-focused practice with fast sales, prices at or near asking and a price mix that reaches from entry level to the luxury tier. With a single brokerage change in 2025 and a new MLS window that is still short, the sales figures reflect his first months at Coldwell Banker Heritage rather than a full year.
ContactOffice phone: (513) 527-1970Profile on the Coldwell Banker Heritage website
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