About Catharine Pappas

• Catharine Pappas is the mastermind leader of Dickens Mitchener’s award-winning relocation department. As a native Charlottean, Pappas brings a wealth of intimate knowledge, experience, enthusiasm, and attention to her job of transitioning families to and from the Queen City.
• Pappas is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a degree in economics. After college, she began her career in real estate working for Coates, Reid & Waldron, the largest real estate company in Aspen, CO. Before joining the Dickens Mitchener team in 1993, Pappas worked in Washington, D.C., where she worked as the office administrator for a successful congressman.
• She assisted Dickens Mitchener in solidifying strategic memberships with the Employee Relocation Council (ERC), the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the Charlotte Chamber Economic Development Council, and the Charlotte Metro Area Relocation Council.
• Under Pappas’s powerful leadership, the relocation department has been honored with numerous awards for outgoing and incoming referral performance and marketing. The department has been re-certified for the Prestigious RELO Quality Certification (RQC), a designation which is held by less than 4% of the top real estate companies in the world, and in 2012, Dickens Mitchener won the International Properties Award for best real estate company in North Carolina.

Worth Knowing

• Pappas plays an integral role in facilitating and executing charitable community endeavors, which have benefited the following organizations: Elon Homes for Children, the Mint Museum Home and Garden Tour, the Mint Museum Antique Show, the Mint Museum Room to Bloom, the Christ Church Holiday Bazaar, the Junior League of Charlotte, and Children’s Theatre.
• She has served as a Sunday school teacher for Christ Episcopal Church for many years.
• Pappas has served on the Relo Advisory Council from 2009-11 and again from 2015-2020. She served as President on the Board of the Relocation Director's Council in 2020.
• Pappas, her husband John, and her three children live in the Myers Park neighborhood.
• In her spare time, she enjoys baking special occasion cakes, golfing, gardening, reading, and playing bridge.
• Homeowners Impact Fund Patron 2020-2023
• Certified Relocation Professional (CRP)
• Relocation Certified Coordinator (RCC)
• Global Destination Specialist (GDS)
• Relocation Quality Certification (RQC) Award recipient, a distinction held by less than 1% of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® member companies
• International Property Award recipient for Best Residential Real Estate Company in North Carolina
• Winner of the coveted Diamond Award four times and the Crown of Excellence
• Award seven times for unparalleled service and performance within the relocation department
• Recipient of numerous Pinnacle and Peak Production Awards
• Inducted into the Relocation Director’s Hall of Fame in 2018