Largest Minority And Girls-Owned Brokerage In US Joins Actual
The Atlanta-based Village Premier Assortment, led by Cheri Benjamin, has joined Actual underneath its Personal Label program. The corporate has roughly 500 brokers and closed $665 million in gross sales in 2023.
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The Real Brokerage has welcomed into its ranks Atlanta-based Village Premier Assortment, the most important minority and women-owned impartial brokerage in the USA, the agency introduced on Wednesday.
Village Premier Assortment has been led by CEO Cheri Benjamin since 2019. The agency closed $665 million in gross sales quantity in 2023 and is becoming a member of Actual underneath the agency’s lately launched Personal Label program, a sort of white-label program that permits impartial brokerages to hitch Actual with out rebranding their firm.
“I’ve recognized and admired Cheri for a few years, and I couldn’t be extra excited that she sees the worth of aligning Village Premier with Actual,” Actual President Sharran Srivatsaa stated in a press release.
“Her values and enterprise strategy mesh seamlessly with Actual so this couldn’t be a greater match,” he continued. “The Personal Label program was designed for brokerages like Village Premier Assortment which have constructed profitable companies on their very own, however that can profit from the sources of a bigger platform. I’m excited to welcome Village Premier to Real and stay up for a protracted and useful partnership.”
Benjamin has been in actual property for greater than 20 years and was employed as Village Premier’s first agent in 2013. In 2019, she acquired the agency and since then has grown it from three workplaces with 67 brokers to a drive of 500 brokers that function throughout the District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, along with their dwelling base in Atlanta.
“At Village Premier, our precedence has been to construct a neighborhood the place each agent feels secure and is related by a shared imaginative and prescient,” Benjamin stated in a press release. “We imagine in reaching down and pulling somebody up, and that’s in full alignment with how Actual has constructed its enterprise. It’s a tradition that accepts variations, rewards, collaboration over competitors and the place brokers are given the flexibility to construct worthwhile careers.”
A U.S. Air Power veteran, Benjamin can also be an actual property coach and speaker and co-authored Membership Wealth’s World Class Buyer Agent.
Actual’s Personal Label and ProTeams applications have been launched in January. The ProTeams program, out there to all groups, permits groups to make the most of Actual’s proprietary transaction administration platform to customise particular person group members’ caps, splits and costs.