RE/MAX announced Thursday that it saw a modest increase in revenues during the first quarter of 2021, and that it also added more than 8,000 agents between January and March — more than during any quarter in the last decade.
The new numbers, published in the company’s quarterly earnings report, note that RE/MAX brought in $72.3 million between January and March. That represents an increase of 2.9 percent year over year. The company’s net profit was $1.1 million — slightly lower than the $1.3 million from last quarter.
While those numbers are more modest than what some other real estate giants, such as eXp Realty, reported this week, they do represent a continuing turn around from mid 2020 when RE/MAX’s performance was hampered by the coronavirus and related lockdowns.
RE/MAX also celebrated a growing agent count in Thursday’s report, saying that its ranks grew 6.4 percent to 140,214 agents. Outside the U.S. and Canada, the company’s agent count grew 0.7 percent to 84,771.
In the report, RE/MAX CEO Adam Contos said that “a robust housing market and record Motto growth helped drive strong financial results for the first quarter.”
“During this period, we also saw our largest year-over-year increase in agent count in over a decade, adding more than 8,000 new agents, led by healthy agent growth in Canada and double-digit agent growth globally,” Contos said, adding that “we are encouraged that many of the strong tailwinds we saw in the first quarter continued in April.”
Motto Mortgage — which launched in 2016 — earned a number of call outs in Thursday’s report. Among other things, the brand increased its number of opened franchises to 159, a jump of 27.1 percent year-over-year.
RE/MAX stock had been trading at around $37 per share for most of Thursday. That price mostly held steady in the minutes after the company published its earnings.
As of Thursday afternoon, RE/MAX’s market cap was just over $701 million.
In its last earnings report, from February, RE/MAX reported that it earned $72.4 million in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2020. That was up 6.2 percent compared to one year earlier. The company attributed the growth to increased broker fees, which resulted from rising home prices and more sales.
Prior to that, in the third quarter of 2020, the company saw revenue fall 0.7 percent year-over-year to $71.1 million.
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