{"id":2030,"date":"2018-05-04T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/key-trends-real-trends-500-rankings-report\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:36:22","slug":"key-trends-real-trends-500-rankings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/key-trends-real-trends-500-rankings-report\/","title":{"rendered":"KEY TRENDS IN THE REAL TRENDS 500 RANKINGS REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p3\"><i><a href=\"brokerage-benchmark-podcast\">Benchmarking<\/a> the trends from the recent brokerage rankings<\/i><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p7\">The acclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\/\">REAL Trends 500<\/a> brokerage rankings were recently announced. Once again, the nation\u2019s top firms are making some noise. The REAL Trends 500 saw an impressive 3.3 percent increase in housing sales in 2017, far outpacing the national average of 1.1 percent according to the National Association of Realtors<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. For the fourth year in a row, the country\u2019s largest brokerage firms gained market share.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Here are some other observations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p8\">&nbsp;1,750+ firms closed 500 or more residential transaction sides to qualify for the REAL Trends brokerage rankings, which represents a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">To make the top 500 by sides, firms needed to close at least 1,899 residential transactions\u2014a bump of 50+ over the previous year.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s3\">To make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/top-10-real-trends-500-volume-2018\/\">top 500 by volume<\/a>, firms had to close at least $565,781,877 in sales, a $60+ million increase over 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">In 2017, the top 500 collectively closed 3,214,188 transactions, a 3.3 percent increase over 2016.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\/\">transactions by the top 500<\/a> amounted to $1.102 trillion in sales volume, a hefty 8.7 percent increase over the previous year.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s3\">Transactions by the top 500 accounted for approximately<\/span> one-third of all agent-assisted residential transaction sides closed in the United States in 2017. To put this into perspective\u2014one-third of the nation\u2019s residential real estate business was done by less than one-half of one percent of all brokerage firms.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">Madison, New Jersey-based NRT LLC was once again the nation\u2019s largest residential brokerage company, <span class=\"s3\">closing 346,942 transactions for a volume of $178 billion. The lion\u2019s share of NRT\u2019s business is done through owned Coldwell Banker offices, with the balance coming from owned Sotheby\u2019s International Realty offices, Corcoran, ZipRealty and Climb Real Estate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s3\">Minneapolis-based HomeServices of America, Inc. remained No. 2 with 328,355 transactions for a volume of <\/span><span class=\"s4\">$125 billion; but made huge strides in closing the gap with NRT via a couple of a large 2017 acquisitions. Houlihan<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> Lawrence and Gloria Nilson were nice additions, but it was mid-Atlantic bellwether Long &amp; Foster that was its prize catch. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"homeservicesaquirelongandfoster\">HomeServices\u2019 acquisition of Long &amp; Foster <\/a><\/span>was one of the largest this industry has ever seen!<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">No. 3 was Pittsburgh-based Hanna Holdings with 90,468 transactions. Family-owned Hanna ranks as the largest independent brokerage firm in the country.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">Rounding out the top five are newcomers Keller Williams Realty GO Management Offices and HomeSmart. KW GO tallied 34,077 transactions from Market Centers located in the states of Texas, Tennessee and New Mexico. HomeSmart came in close behind with 33,601 transactions from offices located in Arizona, Colorado, and California.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s4\">As you can see in the chart, the nation\u2019s leading franchises again had a strong showing in the REAL Trends 500.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">Keller Williams once again saw the largest increase in population, adding nine firms to its tally. With 170 firms, Keller is by far that best-represented franchise in the top 500, accounting for 34 percent of the REAL Trends 500.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p8\">RE\/MAX saw a slight uptick to 87 firms. Realogy affiliates (CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, ERA and Sotheby\u2019s International Realty) combined for a slight downtick from 99 to 97. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices also slid a bit from 27 to 24.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p9\">Collectively, these major franchises accounted for 76 percent of the firms in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"500-insights-podcast-series\">REAL Trends 500<\/a><\/span> by transaction sides.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p7\">For the first time, we\u2019re providing the entirety of our rankings online for free. To view the top 500 by<br \/>sides and volume, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/top-10-largest-privately-owned-independents-2018\/\">Top Independents<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/top-10-top-50-movers-transactions-2018\/\">Top Movers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/top-10-billionaires-club-2018\/\">the Billionaires\u2019 Club<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/top-10-up-and-comers-2018\/\">Up-and-Comers <\/a>and more, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/rankings\/rt500\/\">our website.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmarking the trends from the recent brokerage rankings The acclaimed REAL Trends 500 brokerage rankings were recently announced. Once again, the nation\u2019s top firms are making some noise. The REAL Trends 500 saw an impressive 3.3 percent increase in housing sales in 2017, far outpacing the national average of 1.1 percent according to the National [&hellip;]<\/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-2030","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KEY TRENDS IN THE REAL TRENDS 500 RANKINGS REPORT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KEY TRENDS IN THE REAL TRENDS 500 RANKINGS REPORT Benchmarking the trends and findings from the recent brokerage rankings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/key-trends-real-trends-500-rankings-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KEY TRENDS IN THE REAL TRENDS 500 RANKINGS REPORT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KEY TRENDS IN THE REAL TRENDS 500 RANKINGS REPORT Benchmarking the trends and findings from the recent brokerage rankings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/key-trends-real-trends-500-rankings-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RealTrends - 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