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Multiple listing service. A multiple listing service ( MLS, also multiple listing system or multiple listings service) is an organization with a suite of services that real estate brokers use to establish contractual offers of cooperation and compensation (among brokers) and accumulate and disseminate information to enable appraisals.
A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) is transferred between two or more parties, e.g. in case of conveyance one party being the seller (s) and the other being the buyer (s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred, the ...
Real estate agent. Real estate agents and real estate brokers are people who represents sellers or buyers of real estate or real property. While a broker may work independently, an agent usually works under a licensed broker to represent clients. [1] Brokers and agents are licensed by the state to negotiate sales agreements and manage the ...
Compass, Inc. operates a residential real estate brokerage in the United States. [ 4][ 5] It has approximately 29,000 agents, who are generally independent contractors, on its platform. [ 2] In 2023, the company completed 178,848 transactions for a gross dollar value of $186.1 billion. It had a market share in the U.S. of 4.5%. [ 2]
A homeowner association (or homeowners' association, abbreviated HOA, sometimes referred to as a property owners' association or POA), or a homeowner community, is a private association-like entity in the United States, Canada, the Philippines and certain other countries often formed either ipso jure in a building with multiple owner-occupancies, or by a real estate developer for the purpose ...
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
Keller Williams was founded in 1983 by Gary Keller and Joe Williams. [4] It started out as a single office based in Austin, Texas, selling local residential real estate in the Austin area. [5] After two years in business, Keller Williams became the largest single office residential real estate firm in Austin with 72 licensed agents. [6]
Real estate makes up the largest asset class in the world. Much larger than bonds and stocks, which respectively rank second and third by total market cap. Real estate investing involves the purchase, management and sale or rental of real estate for profit. Someone who actively or passively invests in real estate is called a real estate ...