{"id":2596,"date":"2021-10-28T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/another-profitable-quarter-for-realogy-but-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:39:28","slug":"another-profitable-quarter-for-realogy-but-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/another-profitable-quarter-for-realogy-but-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Another profitable quarter for Realogy, but what&#8217;s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/HW-realogy-ceo-ryan-schneider.png\" alt=\"HW-realogy-ceo-ryan-schneider\" class=\"wp-image-327005\"\/><figcaption>Realogy CEO Ryan Schneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Realogy<\/strong> made a profit for the fifth straight quarter. But the brokerage conglomerate faces questions about how its business is diversifying especially amid a slightly cooler housing market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company behind <strong>Coldwell Banker<\/strong>, <strong>Century 21<\/strong>, <strong>Better Homes and Gardens<\/strong>, <strong>Sotheby\u2019s Realty<\/strong> and <strong>Corcoran<\/strong> reported $114 million in third quarter net income Thursday. That compares to a $98 million net gain in the third quarter of 2020 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/realogy-makes-money-amid-home-sale-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$149 million net income in Q2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realogy has made $296 million in the first nine months of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Madison, New Jersey-based business reported $2.19 billion in revenue. But that figure includes the full commission of each home transaction that is completed by a Realogy agent. For the average home sale, roughly 78% of the commission stays with the Realogy agent with the remaining 22% kept with the company. So, once the agent\u2019s commission cut and \u201cother related expenses\u201d are subtracted, Realogy posted $881 million in quarterly revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast majority of Realogy\u2019s operations are tied to sales commissions, service fees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/realogy-sells-title-arm-for-210m-forms-jv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">title insurance<\/a> and fees collected from franchise affiliates that use one of the Realogy brand-names. However, the topics de jour on the earnings call were Realogy\u2019s version of instant homebuying \u2013 called <strong>RealSure<\/strong>, and the company\u2019s mortgage joint venture with <strong>Guaranteed Rate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Company CEO Ryan Schneider repeatedly said in response to analyst questions that he was \u201cexcited\u201d and a \u201cbig fan\u201d of RealSure, a partnership that Realogy launched in 2019 with <strong>HomePartners of America<\/strong>, which today is a subsidiary of Blackstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realogy <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:SqQbyRLerWoJ:https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/housing-market-disruptor-banks-help-130000479.html+&amp;cd=3&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced this week<\/a> that Katie Finnegan, formerly vice president of mergers &amp; acquisitions at <strong>Walmart<\/strong> and chief customer &amp; ecommerce officer at <strong>RiteAid<\/strong>, would be RealSure\u2019s first CEO, and Schneider said on the call that Realogy was \u201cexpanding its investment\u201d in the partnership. <strong>&#8230;Article continued on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/another-profitable-quarter-for-realogy-but-whats-next\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HousingWire.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was originally published by HousingWire. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/another-profitable-quarter-for-realogy-but-whats-next\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full article is available on HousingWire.com<\/a>\u00a0for HW+ Members.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realogy made a profit for the fifth straight quarter. But the brokerage conglomerate faces questions about how its business is diversifying especially amid a slightly cooler housing market. 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