Findings From 2020 The Thousand & America’s Best Real Estate Professionals Rankings

September 3, 2020 by Tracey Velt
For the first time, we ranked teams in our reports by their size based on the number of licensed Realtors
®
they had on the team. Small teams had 2-5 members, medium
teams had 6-10, and large teams had 11 or more. We’ve measured the relative production and productivity of these different-sizes teams and found some interesting data:  
                                    Sides per         Volume per        Average # of All
Size of Team            Realtor
®
             Realtor
®
                   Realtors
®
Small team                     31.3               $9,035,723                       3.5
Medium team               18.1               $6,110,378                       7.5
Large team                     12.8               $4,776,607                     17.8
Overall                             17.1               $6,981,540                       7.2
Now look at the average productivity per team:
Size of Team                        Total Sides                      Total Volume
Small teams                             109.6                                $31,625,030
Medium teams                       135.8                                $45,827,835
Large teams                             227.8                                $85,023,604
If we assume a national average commission rate of 2.45% for each of these teams, then small teams are averaging $777,976 in gross commissions (before splits or cost-sharing with their brokerage firm), $1.2 million in gross commissions for medium teams and $2.1 million for large teams.
Looking at teams on our 2020 REAL Trends + Tom Ferry America’s Best Rankings, the aggregate numbers of sides, volume and gross commission income estimates are as follows: 
Total transaction sides                             116,759
Total sales volume                                     $47,669,955,120
Total gross commissions                          $1,167,913,900
We thought these data numbers would be of interest to our readers.
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