Compass tops list of US brokerages for fifth year in a row
With over $262B in sales volume last year, the company — which has since grown significantly through its acquisition of Anywhere — leads this year’s Mega 1000.
Key points:
- Anywhere Advisors came in second with $196.1 billion in sales volume. That figure reflects 2025 sales prior to the Compass-Anywhere merger closing in early 2026.
- The Real Brokerage posted a 53.7% year-over-year gain in growth, outpacing the nine other firms at the top of this year’s list.
- HomeServices of America was the only firm in the top 10 to report a slight decline, with sales volume down 0.5%.
For the fifth consecutive year, Compass leads the Mega 1000, the ranking of top U.S. brokerages released today by T3 Sixty.
The company's growth was fueled in part by an M&A spree that continued into early 2026 when Compass finalized its acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate. With a focus on brokerage growth in 2025, data analyzed for the 2026 Mega 1000 predates that deal's closing.
Compass increased its sales volume by 13.5% in 2025, ending the year with $262.2 billion — more than $66 billion ahead of Anywhere Advisors, which placed second on the Mega 1000 with a sales volume of $196.1 billion.
Now that those two companies have united, "Compass' position is no longer just about growth, because the new No. 1 company is now larger than the third through seventh-ranked companies combined," T3 Sixty Founder and Executive Chairman Stefan Swanepoel said in a news release.
A new approach to scaling up
The consolidation trend reflected in last year's Mega 1000 continued to gain steam in 2025 as the big companies got bigger. In fact, the list of this year's top 10 brokerages — including each firm's placement on the list — is unchanged from a year earlier.
"These rankings show that scale is no longer built the same way," T3 Sixty President and CEO Jack Miller said. "Consolidation, capital and platform strategy are now central to how the largest companies grow and compete."
Real outpaces Compass in YoY growth: Though Compass nabbed the No. 1 spot by sales volume, The Real Brokerage saw the largest year-over-year jump among the top 10 firms, with its 2025 sales volume of $65.2 billion up 53.7% compared to 2024.
After reporting over $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time in 2024, Real doubled its progress in 2025 while boosting agent count by more than 30% year-over-year. And as the company's first-ever chief growth officer recently told Real Estate News, the brokerage sees "a long runway" for future growth.
Last year's newcomers hold steady: Side and Peerage Realty Partners — both of which made their first appearances on the Mega 1000's top 10 list last year — retained their spots with small gains in year-over-year growth. Side, which debuted on the top 10 with a 2024 sales volume of $24.6 billion, experienced a 4.8% increase in growth in 2025, while Peerage held onto its No. 10 spot with 1.2% growth.
Growth stumbles for HomeServices: After a small 2.1% increase in sales volume in 2024, HomeServices of America saw growth dip by 0.5% last year, bringing the company's volume to $135.9 billion. HomeServices is the only firm in this year's top 10 with a downtick in sales volume.
Anywhere, KW and REMAX top enterprise, franchise rankings
Anywhere retained its role as the largest enterprise by sales volume. However, this will change in future rankings now that Anywhere's brands are operating under the banner of Compass International Holdings.
Keller Williams Realty continued to dominate the franchise space as the top franchise brand with about $370 billion in sales volume.
REMAX Gold Nation continued to rank as the top franchisee — for a fifth consecutive year — with a 24% year-over-year boost in sales volume.
Note: Real Estate News is an editorially independent division of T3 Sixty. The full Mega 1000 brokerage rankings will be released by T3 Sixty on April 15.