{"id":2978,"date":"2022-03-29T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/realtrends-500-exp-compass-top-in-one-year-movers-by-closed-sides\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:41:14","slug":"realtrends-500-exp-compass-top-in-one-year-movers-by-closed-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/realtrends-500-exp-compass-top-in-one-year-movers-by-closed-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"RealTrends 500: eXp, Compass lead in one-year movers by closed sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>eXp Realty<\/strong> and <strong>Compass<\/strong> lead the top movers by transactions. Different from our <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/realtrends-500-keller-williams-and-re-max-offices-lead-top-one-year-movers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top movers by transaction side percentage<\/a>, this is the actual numeric increase in transaction sides year to year between 2020 and 2021.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/real-trends-500\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 RealTrends 500<\/a> rankings top movers by transaction sides is based on 2021 sales data. Top movers is a ranking of the 50 firms in the RealTrends 500 that had the largest increase in closed sides or largest increase in sales volume between 2020 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eXp Realty had a 116,646 increase in sides over 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/realtrends-500-the-rise-of-compass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compass<\/a> had a 79,283 increase in transaction sides in 2021, compared to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the top five are <strong>HomeServices of America<\/strong> (+44,878), <strong>Realogy Brokerage Group<\/strong> (+43,155) and <strong>United Real Estate<\/strong> (+21,548).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-top-50-movers-by-transaction-sides\">Top 50 movers by transaction sides<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"c9c7ad42-6f66-41da-b9f0-a1fbe5084cf2\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"1 Year Sides #\"><\/div><script>!function(e,i,n,s){var t=\"InfogramEmbeds\",d=e.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(\"script\");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,\"infogram-async\");<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&lt;&lt;&lt;Article continued on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/realtrends-500-keller-williams-and-re-max-offices-tops-in-percentage-transaction-sides\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HousingWire.com<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/knock-raises-220m-lays-off-46-of-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was originally published by HousingWire. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/realtrends-500-keller-williams-and-re-max-offices-tops-in-percentage-transaction-sides\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full article and a list of the top 50 is available<\/a>&nbsp;on HousingWire.com for HW+ Members.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eXp Realty and Compass lead the top movers by transactions. 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