{"id":1635,"date":"2018-07-18T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/buyside-powering-real-trends-top-ranked-brokerages\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:28:28","slug":"buyside-powering-real-trends-top-ranked-brokerages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/buyside-powering-real-trends-top-ranked-brokerages\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyside Powering Nearly 40% of REAL Trends Top Ranked Brokerages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After achieving record growth in the first half of 2018,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getbuyside.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buyside<\/a>&nbsp;has inked partnerships with nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\/\">40% of the REAL Trends Top 50 ranked brokerage firms<\/a>. 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