About Chris
Meet Chris Ognek
Broker/Owner, Q Real Estate. Naval Academy graduate, former EA-6B Prowler Naval Aviator, husband and father of two boys.
Chris Ognek is a 1995 graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University.
His first career was in the air. Chris served 11 years as a Naval Aviator piloting the EA-6B “Prowler” and leading Electronic Warfare missions throughout the Western Pacific and Middle East, including a combat tour in Iraq. He flew the Prowler off U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, where there is always a plan and always a contingency. He still works that way. Chris’s military experience with operational risk management, project planning, quality assurance and executive level legal counsel propelled him to being a nationally recognized top Realtor who performs in the top 1% of all Realtors nationwide.
First career
11 years as a Naval Aviator.
Chris is both the Broker and a founding member of Q Real Estate, LLC which originated in 2005. He founded it with his brother Mike, a former Marine officer, and in its first year Prince William County named Q Real Estate its New Business of the Year. He is an expert in real estate sales and marketing, negotiating, finance, residential real estate investing, and property redesign and rehabilitation. Chris drives sales by developing and implementing unique and innovative strategies for both buyers and sellers that focus on maximizing financial results and minimizing risk.
The results followed. Chris has held and managed multi-million-dollar home sale contracts with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), selling hundreds of homes per month. He has sold over 1,000 homes in Northern Virginia.
As Broker/Owner, Chris does the work himself. He builds your pricing, runs your marketing plan and negotiates your sale or purchase, start to finish. There are no hand-offs, and you’ll often hear from him directly from his cell phone.
Chris treats every move as a financial decision. He negotiates every offer himself, and price is only one part of it. Terms, financing, timing and your bottom line all matter. Before you sign, you get a written net sheet, line by line. Sellers get a customized marketing plan: 67+ real estate websites, professional photos, video walk-throughs, 3D tours, floor plans and drone pictures as needed, plus “Coming Soon” pre-marketing and regular updates until the home is sold. Buyers get straight answers on VA assumable loans and FHA 203k renovation mortgages, which can help them buy a home and create equity in it. He is also a land and new-home-building expert.
“I don’t fluff numbers just to convince you to let me put a sign in your yard,” Chris says. He has the heart of a teacher, listens more than he talks, and works as a consultant, never a salesperson. One client told him, “You told me more in 5 minutes than any agent has ever told me.”
Q Real Estate has 372 five-star reviews on Zillow and a 4.8-star Google rating from 78 reviews. A first-time buyer wrote that Chris’s “experience, deep knowledge of the area, and constant professionalism made the entire process feel much less stressful.” Another client called him “never pushy, never rushed.” A repeat client wrote, “He’s attentive to detail and genuinely cares about his customers.”
Chris is there for the hard moves too: military families with PCS orders, buyers relocating from out of state or overseas, families settling an estate from far away, and homes that didn’t sell with another agent. He helps homeowners facing foreclosure at no cost, as a service to his community.
Family first.
At home, Chris is a husband and the father of two boys. He plays trombone in the Fredericksburg Community Band and Church Orchestra and volunteers his time to help mentor high school students. Chris does most of his business by referral because of how much his clients trust and value his expertise. They refer friends, family, and co-workers as well as using him time and again for their own home sales and purchases throughout their life’s journey. As one put it: “This is the 4th house I’ve bought, Chris is the best.”
