2024 Tech100 Real Estate winner: SpecDeck by HomesUSA.com
In 2023, HomesUSA.com launched SpecDeck, its cutting-edge technology that empowers builders to replace their in-house MLS listing process. SpecDeck uses strategic automation to create a more streamlined and simpler way for builders to have their listings fully managed, and it’s the first time automation has been fully leveraged in the MLS listing process. Created […]
HomesUSA’s Ben Caballero is changing how homes are marketed
Ben Caballero, the founder and CEO of HomesUSA.com, is known for revolutionizing how new homes are marketed. His unique approach to real estate, deeply ingrained from his family background in the business, has led him to achieve significant milestones, including recognition by the Guinness Book of World Records. Caballero’s journey began early, becoming a broker […]
Texas’ most prolific broker thinks NAR lawsuits could turn MLS into “Wild West”
Ben Caballero broke records for selling 16 homes a day and becoming the first individual agent to sell $1 billion and $2 billion of houses in a year. Caballero is the founder of HomesUSA, a platform that manages MLS postings for homebuilders across Texas. Caballero started the company in 2007, and is paid a commission […]
Ranking Houston’s top resi brokers in 2023
For Houston’s top residential brokers, 2023 saw a great divide. Top performers stood out more than ever in a year largely defined by residential decline. The backdrop was interest rate hikes and ballooning construction costs, culprits in a slowdown that started in 2022. Indeed, the metro market has now notched 19 straight months of declining […]
New home sales across Dallas-Fort Worth climb to 3-year high, prices rebound
DALLAS — Read this story and more North Texas business news from our partners at the Dallas Business Journal. New home sales in North Texas climbed to a three-year high last month, average new home prices rebounded and pending sales were essentially flat. The three-month moving average of new home sales in Dallas-Fort Worth for […]
2023 The Thousand real estate rankings show shining stars
Nothing about today’s market is “normal.” Like all market shifts, there are some similarities, but different economic circumstances. This year’s rankings mirror what is happening in the market — low inventory, still high prices — with a record number of real estate professionals qualifying by sales volume and transaction sides, although average sides dropped from […]
Texas housing market – what’s happening?
After losing his Tennessee bid for the US Congress, future Alamo defender Davy Crockett famously said: “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” Loan originators seeking to gain market share may also want to head to the Lone Star State given its robust housing market. Ben Caballero, founder and CEO […]
Texas agent Ben Caballero breaks individual home sales record
HomesUSA Chief Executive Officer Ben Caballero individually sold $3 billion in home sales in 2022. Translating to roughly $8.39 million in home sales per day, his 2022 volume of $3,060,878,784 now holds the record for the highest annual home sales volume by any individual agent. Previously, in 2015, Caballero became the first agent to break […]
Real Trends Top 25 Real Estate Agent Websites RANKED (+ Tips & Tools)
Have you ever wondered how your website stacks up against the biggest real estate rock stars in the country? Well, wonder no more. In this updated article, we ranked the real estate agent websites of the top agents 25 (by volume) in the country, as compiled on the Real Trends 500. We also give you […]
5 factors drive the cost of new homes — and all of them are squeezing builders and buyers now
It’s looking pretty gloomy for homebuilders, and that has downstream effects on homebuyers and renters. August 1st, 2022 – MarketWatch – Building a home is a complicated business. That’s because of a variety of factors — from navigating lumber tariffs to a shortage of labor. And with interest and mortgage rates rising, on top of […]