{"id":2862,"date":"2022-02-16T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/exp-realty-adds-28000-agents-since-feb-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:40:21","slug":"exp-realty-adds-28000-agents-since-feb-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/exp-realty-adds-28000-agents-since-feb-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"eXp Realty adds 28,000 agents since Feb. 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"h-\">Few companies have grown at the rate of <strong>eXp Realty<\/strong> over the past five years. In fact, according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/realtrends-2021-game-changers-see-magnificent-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RealTrends GameChangers<\/a><\/strong>, which shows that the firm&#8217;s growth by transaction side percentage between 2016 and 2020 was 2,418%, based on the 2020 RealTrends 500. <strong>Compass<\/strong> is the only company that has come close with 2,395% growth by transaction side percentage over the same time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h-\">Of course, that growth has to come from somewhere and, according to eXp Realty, it is coming for massive additions of agents. The company reported that it has exceeded 75,000 agents globally, representing an increase of 60% when compared to 46,745 agents in February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only <strong>Keller Williams<\/strong> <strong>Realty<\/strong> reportedly has more agents. A Keller spokesperson says that &#8220;Keller Williams is home to 173,274 agents in the United States and Canada and 14,847 agents worldwide.&#8221; Both eXp and Keller Williams made headlines last week when a court temporarily blocked former Keller Williams CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/why-mark-willis-isnt-free-to-join-exp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Willis<\/a> from taking an executive position with eXp Realty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are driven to continuously innovate our business model and enhance our agent value proposition, which ultimately delivers great service to homeowners and sellers,\u201d said Glenn Sanford, Founder, Chairman and CEO of eXp World Holdings. \u201cOur agent-centric platform is the foundation of our success as the fastest-growing real estate brokerage in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following are some of the recent teams and agents who have joined eXp Realty in the second half of 2021 and early 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Jennifer Grandjean in Portland, Oregon<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=Bbvio-S_ncMMpKJeYI7nngoSdQnjH-S8_dlcxSgsalWVAFxkvNke7uqfsXPFz7sjgZeXw21IuuSpKZZi9uvnv6Y7-AcLeDmjp3fDRNrREGKwbvDH0jyMqvQ3VmmOhnWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Jennifer Grandjean<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and her seven-person team joined eXp Realty in July 2021. <\/li><li><strong>Clifford Blanquicet and the Blanq Real Estate Team in Charlotte, North Carolina<\/strong><br>Clifford Blanquicet and the 16-person Blanq Real Estate Team joined eXp Commercial in August 2021. <\/li><li><strong>Scott and Sean Bautista in Seattle<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=f7zD0N8j6OWqrKXEYgHpojLNUIV1Sy89Kaz8SHiqL6qb9sd5hBm1TnAoWioFs_yfMohsnyR65UfmQHn5sIW8AoAlkADBFLBUV0QHcYJHjk0SIHx4wfrSeScQaPg2gHbvtETcsLnM3NyjgMZIxiGqaw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Scott and Sean Bautista<\/u><\/a>\u00a0brought their 12-person team to eXp Realty in September 2021. <\/li><li><strong>Arie Luyendyk Jr. in Scottsdale, Arizona<\/strong><br>Arie Luyendyk Jr., a former race-car driver who starred in season 22 of The Bachelor, joined eXp Realty in September 2021. <\/li><li><strong>Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos in Ottawa, Canada<\/strong><br>Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos and the seven-person Agent DK Team joined eXp Realty in December 2021, after 10 years at Royal LePage. <\/li><li><strong>Marbel Lugo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<\/strong><br>Marbel Lugo joined eXp Realty in February 2021 as broker of record for the Dominican Republic. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eXp Realty reported that it exceeded 75,000 agents globally, up from 46,745 agents a year ago.<\/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":[19],"class_list":["post-2862","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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