A real estate team led by identical twins Shane and Clint Neal has joined eXp Realty after a 15-year stint at Keller Williams in San Antonio, Texas.
The Neals and their roster of 80 agents sold 914 homes last year, totaling $338 million in sales. That ranked second in sales and third in gross commission income across Keller Williams nationally, according to eXp.
The brothers had been thinking about a move for more than two years and believe the cloud-based brokerage offers the best growth trajectory for the team, Clint Neal said in an interview.
"It wasn't something we just came up with two weeks ago and did it," he said. "We'd been talking to them for some time and feel like their model serves us really, really well."
San Antonio is the nation's seventh-largest city with 1.4 million residents, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census. As of the end of April, the median sale price in San Antonio was $290,000, down 1% from the prior year, according to Homes.com data. More than five of 10 residents of the city are homeowners, the data shows.
The brokerage's parent company, eXp World Holdings, said late Tuesday its number of agents and brokers totaled 81,904 in the first quarter ended March 31, down 5% from the same period the prior year. The brokerage wants to recruit more teams interested in growth, eXp Realty CEO Leo Pareja announced last year.
The Neal brothers grew up on a ranch in Medina, Texas, north of San Antonio, and launched their business in 2010. They sell homes, farms and ranches at all price points. Even after years of working with them, some of the agents on their team can't tell them apart.
“We show up in the same clothes at least three times a week without planning it,” Shane Neal said in a statement. “It used to be a joke. Now, it’s just how we operate.”