Keller Williams

General information

Keller Williams Realty (“Keller Williams”) is a Global Real Estate business and is the No 1 Real Estate Company in the US, coming from No 15 twelve years ago. It is a franchise business driven by an agent centric, coaching and development based, technology driven culture that rewards Agents as stakeholders. Its accolades in the US market include:
• It is currently the largest real estate company in North America by agent count;
• Profitability is being achieved in 95% of its nationwide offices;
• It won the JD Powers Awards in 2012 for providing the best service to both buyers and sellers in the US;
• WorkplaceDynamics named it No. 9 on the national US Top 150 workplace list, the only national real estate franchising company to make the list.
• It has thrived in major markets in the US to the extent that leading business management schools in the US (Stanford & Yale) have penned case studies on the firms operating model.
The Keller Williams model is different from other brokers. Keller Williams focus is to make Agents successful, and by contrast with other Real Estate businesses, does not depend upon the sale of franchises for its financial success, as its operational model offer considerable long term competitive advantage in several ways.