{"id":1704,"date":"2018-03-29T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/real-trends-500-report\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:29:46","slug":"real-trends-500-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/real-trends-500-report\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL Trends 500 Report Ranks Nation&#8217;s Largest Real Estate Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\"><em><strong>REAL Trends, the trusted source for news and research about the real estate brokerage industry, announced the results of the&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">2018 REAL Trends 500<\/a>, an independently verified compilation of the nation&#8217;s leading residential real estate companies.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>A record 1,752 firms qualified for this year&#8217;s REAL Trends 500.&nbsp; According to a research report produced by&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">REAL Trends<\/a>, the 500 largest residential real estate brokerage firms in the nation closed over 3.2 million residential sales transactions in 2017. These transactions represent approximately one-third of all new and resale transactions completed by brokers during the year, yet the&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">REAL Trends 500<\/a>&nbsp;represented less than one-half of one percent of all brokerage firms. The 500-ranked brokers closed 3.2 million home transactions with a value of over&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-money\">$1.1 trillion<\/span>&nbsp;during 2017, up from&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-money\">$1.0 trillion<\/span>&nbsp;in the calendar year 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36697\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-9_06_31-AM-1024x469-1.png\" alt=\"500 report\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\"><\/a> This year&#8217;s survey represents the most comprehensive collection of data assembled on the leaders of the residential brokerage industry. Numbers are documented by outside accounting firms. &#8220;Housing sales in the nation were up 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2016. REAL Trends 500 firms were up 3.3 percent in the same period,&#8221; said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Steve Murray<\/span>, president of&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">REAL Trends<\/a>. &#8220;For the fourth year in a row, the nation&#8217;s largest brokerage firms gained market share.&#8221; Murray adds,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While we know that many incumbent firms are under pressure from new, low-cost models, the REAL Trends 500 shows that leading brokerage firms of all sizes are still growing and expanding. The national organizations such as Keller Williams and eXp have previously not been among the top 10 in REAL Trends 500. This year, they are both represented, as is RE\/MAX, alongside a few traditional, independent brokerage firms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It took 1,899 transactions to be included in this year&#8217;s&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">REAL Trends 500<\/a>, up from a minimum of 1,843 transactions a year ago.&nbsp;In 2016, there were 235 firms recording over&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-money\">$1 billion<\/span>&nbsp;in residential sales while there were 274 firms that accomplished this in 2017. NRT LLC led the&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">REAL Trends 500<\/a>&nbsp;as the largest residential brokerage company in the country. The firm closed 346,942 transactions in 2017. Owned entirely by Realogy, NRT, in&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Madison, New Jersey<\/span>, acquires residential real estate brokerage firms and operates them as affiliates of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Coldwell Banker<\/span>, Sotheby&#8217;s International Realty, The Corcoran Group, Zip Realty and Climb Real Estate. Number two on the list of the nation&#8217;s largest firms is HomeServices of America Inc. headquartered in&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/span>, with 328,355 closed transaction sides. Number three on the list is Hanna Holdings, in&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/span>, with 90,468 transactions and number four was Keller Williams Realty, GO Management Offices with 34,077 transactions. To view the rankings, go to&nbsp;<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300621209\">https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500<\/a>. This year, REAL Trends is offering the REAL Trends 500 information for free! <strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36696 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/REAL-Trends-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"40\"><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/housingwire.com\/realtrends-blog\">REAL Trends<\/a><\/strong> has been The Trusted Source for news, analysis and information about the residential real estate industry since 1987. We are a privately-held publishing, communications and&nbsp;consulting company based in Castle Pines,&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Colorado<\/span>. Residential real estate leaders find timely and trusted information and analysis through our yearly event\u2014Gathering of Eagles\u2014our monthly newsletter and other publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REAL Trends, the trusted source for news and research about the real estate brokerage industry, announced the results of the&nbsp;2018 REAL Trends 500, an independently verified compilation of the nation&#8217;s leading residential real estate companies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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