Top 10 Real Estate Agencies in Canada: The process of buying a home seems to be very stressful, whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a first timer. You can find out a real estate agent who’s willing to do lots of grunt work for you.
Below are the top 10 Real Estate Agencies in Canada which help in searching for your dream home:
1. RE/MAX: The full abbreviation of RE/MAX is Real Estate Maximums and has been operating since 1973. This company has grown its 1,00,000 sales agents in its 43 years of existence. This company operates its offices in more than 100 countries territories. Most importantly, RE/MAX is being known as one of the most productive real estate sales organization in Canada.
2. Century 21: Century 21 is one of the most recognized brands in the real estate industry. Century 21 boasts its global operation throughout Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. There are around 7,000 independently owned broker offices with nearly 100,000 associates which are spread out around the world.
3. Keller Williams Realty, Inc.: Keller Williams Realty, Inc. is also another real estate force in Canada. In the year 2012, Keller Williams achieved 91% profit of its offices in throughout the nation. Presently, this organization has more than 700 offices around the world.
4. Coldwell Banker: Coldwell Banker was founded in the year 1906 in San Francisco. Coldwell Banker has an amazingly rich history of offering its dependable real estate services to its clients. This company has around 3,000 offices in around 50 territories and countries.
5. ERA: ERA stands for Electronic Realty Associates which is being operated by Realogy, it is the parent company of Sotheby’s International Realty, Coldwell Banker and Century 21. This company was founded in the year 1971. Now, presently ERA has a number of offices in many countries around the world, including Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.
6. Sotheby’s International Realty: In the year 1976, Sotheby’s International Realty was founded and once this organization formed a strategic alliance in 2004 with Realogy, this real estate agent offered its franchise opportunities to choose the real estate brokerages. Sotheby’s International Realty has a number of clients with high net worth. Recently, this agency expanded its presence in the Southeast Asian countries like the Thailand and Philippines.
7. The Corcoran Group: Barbara Corcoran, a Real estate mogul used a gimmick which is best known as the one day sale to sell around 81 apartments in just a period of 24-hours. Corcoran website debuted and became the first online portal for real estate industry in Canada. Now, Corcoran is one of the largest privately owned residential firms in New York City.
8. Camden Property Trust: This trust is specialized in managing, developing and owning multifamily residential apartments, Camden Property Trust became the largest publicly traded company in the U.S. Presently, this trust owns over 55,000 apartments across the US.
9. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate: This real estate organization was launched in the year 1978 by the Meredith Corporation. Since then, this real estate firm has emerged as the reputable brands. In the year 2008, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate entered into a franchise system, that helps out to catapult it up to the ranks.
10. Zillow.com: Lloyd Frink and Rich Barton are the former Microsoft executives who too started Expedia. Both of these executives founded an online portal in the year 2005 and this company has grown tremendously since this period of time.
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