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Guinness World Record-Holding Agent Breaks $2.2 Billion Mark<\/h2>\n

Ben Caballero, the first Guinness World Record holder for home sales who was recently featured in a REAL Trends podcast<\/a>, broke his world record for an individual real estate agent, selling 5,793 homes totaling $2,270,911,643 in a single year. That\u2019s according to data from local MLSs of the Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae, North Texas Real Estate Information Systems, San Antonio Board of REALTORS\u00ae and the Austin Board of REALTORS\u00ae.<\/p>\n

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\n \"Ben Ben Caballero won the Guinness World Record in 2018 for real estate sales.\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Ranked as the No. 1 real estate agent for nearly a decade by REAL Trends for both total sales and number of transactions, Caballero also listed an additional 668 homes for brokerages owned by home builders for an additional sales volume of $228,992,475. His combined real estate sales for the year totaled $2.499 billion with 6,461 homes sold, all in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is the world\u2019s greatest housing market and one of the best economies in the world,\u201d said Caballero. \u201cIt\u2019s said everything is bigger in Texas. Well, this number is so big even I\u2019m little surprised by it — and delighted. But this may well be a record that lasts a year or two,\u201d he said, noting that 2019\u2019s homes sales in Texas are showing signs of leveling off.<\/p>\n

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Ben Caballero is the broker-owner of HomesUSA.com<\/a>\u00ae, based in Addison, Texas. With his HomesUSA.com platform he manages MLS listings for more than 60 builders in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. Caballero is the number one ranked real estate agent on REAL Trends\u2019 definitive \u201cThe Thousand\u201d list, as publish in The Wall Street Journal for both number of home sales and total annual dollar volume.<\/p>\n

Significantly, Ben Caballero, in addition to his individual record, is the only individual real estate agent ever to surpass the total production of highest ranked real estate teams on \u201cThe Thousand\u201d list, as measured by total sales transactions (sides) and total transaction volume, as verified by REAL Trends. In 2017 Ben Caballero sold more than twice as many homes in both dollar volume and number of homes than those teams that appear on the most recent list. The REAL Trends list for 2018 sales production is expected to be publish this June.<\/p>\n

To put Caballero\u2019s 2018 numbers in perspective: Ben sold an average of more than 100 homes a week \u2013 nearly 16 homes a day, every single day of the year, and almost three home sales every business hour.<\/p>\n

The First Billion Dollar Agent becomes the First 2-Billion Dollar Agent<\/strong>
In 2016, Caballero became the first real estate agent in America personally responsible for more than $1 billion in home sales. He sold 3,556 homes totaling $1.444 billion and that production landed him the title of a Guinness World Record holder last year. He holds the official title for \u201cMost annual home sales transactions through MLS by an individual sell side real estate agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike most top-producing agents who sell multimillion-dollar mansions to celebrities in Beverly Hills and Malibu or to Wall Street titans in Manhattan, Caballero home sales are to everyday people in Texas. His business serves builders selling homes in communities throughout Austin, Houston, San Antonio, as well as his hometown market of Dallas-Ft. Worth.<\/p>\n

By the numbers<\/strong>
Caballero\u2019s total sales transactions for his builder clients in four Texas markets in 2018 was up 21 percent n the last year, from 4,799 sales in 2017 to 5,793 sales in 2018. His total sales volume increased 19 percent, totaling $2,270,911,643 in 2018, up from $1,905,970,827 in 2017. His average sales price for 2018 was $392,446.<\/p>\n

For the second year in a row, he has been the only individual agent ever to sell more than $1 billion in home sales within a single market. Last year, Caballero sold 3,496 homes in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market, up from 3,035 homes he sold in 2017. His total sales volume for Dallas-Ft. Worth in 2018 was $1,384,874,852, up from $1,200,477,303 in 2017. The average home price in Dallas-Ft. Worth Caballero sold was $392,009.<\/p>\n

In Houston, he sold more than one thousand homes (1,022) in 2018, with sales totaling $401,942,780. Caballero also sold 923 homes in Austin last year, with sales totaling $362,063,283. In San Antonio, he sold 288 homes, with sales totaling $96,464,314.<\/p>\n

How does Caballero do it?<\/h4>\n

Through the HomesUSA.com<\/a> platform Caballero invented, he leverages online technology to achieve his top-ranking sales volume.<\/p>\n

HomesUSA.com\u2019s cloud-based listing management and marketing platform streamlines the MLS listing process and speeds up the sales process for homebuilders. It allows builders to provide more accurate data to consumers while also increasing a builder\u2019s ability to market new home listings to real estate agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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