Born on the Bay.
Trained for luxury.
Home again.

Chantal Apple was raised on an island. Not a metaphorical one — a small fishing village in Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the cadence of the day was measured by tides, hulls, and watermarks on weathered pilings. The Chesapeake Bay isn't a market she studied; it's the rhythm she grew up to. That fluency — salt air, working waterfronts, the texture of a coastal community — moves through every transaction she touches.

Her appetite for the world has taken her far from those shores — from Australia to the fjords of Norway — but the Eastern Shore has always pulled her back. The tranquil landscapes. The salt-kissed air. Home, for Chantal, has a temperature, a tide chart, and a fishing forecast.

Licensed as a Maryland Realtor® since 2000, Chantal has spent more than two and a half decades building a distinguished career anchored in luxury waterfront properties. Her edge isn't only the transactions — it's where she comes from.

Alongside her real estate work, Chantal helped manage her family's marine construction business, contributing to the development of some of the Mid-Atlantic's most recognized marinas — Sunset Marina, Ocean City Fishing Center, and Marsh Harbour. When her clients buy on the water, they aren't just getting a Realtor; they're getting someone who has watched a bulkhead driven, who understands rip-rap, who reads dock permits the way other agents read appraisals. That depth of waterfront-infrastructure literacy doesn't come from a brochure. It comes from the dock.

In 2006, Chantal relocated to Connecticut and joined Sotheby's International Realty as a top-producing agent, specializing in luxury homes and estate properties. Across more than a decade — and through raising her two children — she refined the discipline of representing high-net-worth clients in a global brokerage where the standards are uncompromising.

In 2017 she returned to Maryland, bringing that polish home to the Bay.

Chantal is currently pursuing her private pilot's license — an aerial perspective to match the one she already has from the water. When she steps away from the closing table, you'll find her in a yoga class, on the deck of a sailboat, or in her studio painting marine wildlife. She rides horses. She protects her family time. She believes a real estate career and a real life don't have to compete.

Discretion. Market knowledge. A personalized rhythm matched to each client. Chantal's practice is built deliberately small in spirit — bespoke rather than industrial — and grounded in the relationships that outlast any single transaction. Trust. Integrity. Results. Those words mean something to her because they're how she was raised on that island.

As an advisor with Atlantic Shores Sotheby's International Realty, Chantal represents a global network defined by exceptional service and refined marketing. Her team — serving the Delmarva Peninsula — closes more than $1 billion in annual volume, assists more than 200 buyers and sellers each year, and has collectively guided over 2,000 clients through successful transactions. The Apple Advantage is local expertise plugged into one of the world's most accomplished real estate networks.