Rental Property Investor · NH · Member since 2023 · 441 posts · 416 votes
Here's the breakdown behind that number.
Our brokerage did 65–70% multifamily transactions last year. We were the #1 brokerage for multifamily transaction volume in Massachusetts, and we landed in the top 5 across New England for multifamily investment sales.
Here's the mix underneath that: roughly 40% of our business is commercial — 5+ unit multifamily, some warehouses, some owner-operated businesses. The other 60% is residential - 2 to 4 units or single family.
That split isn't an accident. Every agent at Candor is required to be an active investor, or actively working toward owning a property within 12 months. About 40 of our agents are active investors right now. Roughly 20 of them came in already building a portfolio. The rest built theirs after joining.
When your agents are investors first, the deal mix follows. They're not steering clients toward whatever's easiest to close. They're steering them toward what actually cash flows.
What's your brokerage's residential-to-commercial split look like, and does it match how your agents actually invest personally?
Accountant · Seattle, WA · Member since 2025 · 301 posts · 95 votes
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That is an impressive mix, @Andrew BoscoThe more interesting point is the alignment between how your agents invest and how they advise clients. Requiring agents to have personal ownership experience—or a concrete path toward it—likely changes the quality of conversations around underwriting, operations, financing, and risk. Clients can usually tell when advice comes from firsthand experience rather than simply from trying to close the next transaction.
I also like that your mix spans residential and commercial multifamily. That gives newer investors room to begin with a two- to four-unit property while still having access to people who understand larger assets as their portfolios grow. The model seems especially valuable if agents are evaluating cash flow conservatively and are willing to advise a client against a deal when the fundamentals do not support it.
The split alone may not tell the whole story, though. It would be interesting to compare transaction mix with what agents actually own, how long they have operated those properties, and whether their clients’ deals perform as underwritten. That would help distinguish a brokerage that sells investment property from one that has truly built an investor-focused culture.