See the problem here? Large brokerages are asleep at the wheel. By failing to deliver compelling real estate search websites and the leads they generate, they risk losing the very thing that keeps them in business – their agents and the fees they generate for the brokerage.

Congrats to Estately on its profits all the same, even if we are a little different.

I signed up to be a referral agent thru Estately about a year or so ago, zero buyers or sellers in my area so far. Our office website is much more productive at this point

Brian, thanks for including us in your overview of the market (though one demerit for the broken link . Just as you say, we offer good agents what most of their brokers do not–a stream of quality “Internet” customers without keeping so much of the commission that it is financially unattractive for the agent.

Most brokers want to keep as much of the commission on these customers as possible–they found them, right? As a result, they can’t get their good/experienced agents to work with these “leads”. They get handed to newer/worser agents willing to make a much smaller cut.

Sawbuck (and I assume Estately) enables Internet buyers to connect with good, vetted agents; and offers those agents a steady stream of good, vetted buyers. Win-win. Most “traditional” brokers just aren’t doing this.