How this site decides who the best luxury home agents are

Every ranking on this site is computed from documented sales, not from an agent's own description of their business. An agent is listed in a market because public listing records show them closing homes there, and they sit where they sit because of what those homes sold for, how many of them there are on record, and what verified clients said afterward. Nothing else moves the order. Not membership, not advertising, not a phone call.

This page shows the work: the rule, the data, what the data cannot tell you, how often it refreshes, and exactly how the site makes money.

Each agent in a market gets a score from three documented inputs. The average price of their recent closed sales carries the most weight, because selling a nine-million-dollar house is not the same job as selling nine one-million-dollar houses. The number of closed sales on record is applied on a logarithmic scale, so it rewards a real track record without letting a high-volume mid-market agent outrank a specialist at the top of the market. Verified client reviews adjust the score at the margin, capped so that review count can never outweigh the sales record.

Agents are ordered by that score, highest first, and each market page shows the top 12. The order is recomputed whenever the underlying records are refreshed. Ties are rare and are broken by closed-sales count.

Sales figures, price ranges, brokerage affiliation, license references and client reviews are pulled from agents' public profiles on the major listing portals, which in turn draw closed-sale records from the multiple listing services. Where an agent's public record carries a transaction count and a price band, we use it; where it only carries a list of recent closings, the average is computed from those closings and marked as such on the profile.

Market-level figures on state and market pages, the median home value and its year-over-year change, come from the Zillow Home Value Index, a smoothed, seasonally adjusted measure of the typical home in the middle tier of a market. Days to pending comes from the same publisher's metro-level series. Both are labeled with their source wherever they appear.

The site does not have direct MLS access, so it cannot audit a record the portals do not carry. An agent whose brokerage does not publish closings to the portals will be under-counted, and a team account may aggregate the sales of several people under one name. Where a team is ranked as a team, the profile says so. Averages computed from a short list of recent closings can swing on one exceptional sale; the profile shows the underlying price range next to the average for that reason.

Reviews are a weak signal at the top of the market, where clients are few and private, which is why they cap out and never decide the order on their own. And the ranking measures documented performance, not fit. Two agents with similar scores can be very different to work with; the questions to ask before you sign exist for that reason.

"Luxury" has no legal definition, so this site uses a fixed price band per state and labels it as its own convention. It is never a loan limit and never a substitute for a market's median. The band sets which markets the site covers and how the market pages describe the top of each market.

Each state's luxury market page restates its convention next to the state's actual price data so the two are never confused.

Agent records are re-pulled monthly and every market page carries the month it reflects in its title. Market-level figures follow the publisher's monthly release. A page that has not refreshed in twelve months shows a stale notice rather than aging silently.

Agents can claim their profile at no cost and correct or extend it; a claimed profile is marked as claimed. Agents can also pay for featured placement in a market. A featured agent is pinned to the top of that market's page, is labeled Featured on every surface where they appear, and their organic score is left exactly as it was. Featured placement never adds to, removes from, or reorders the organic list. The site may also earn referral fees when a reader contacts an agent through it. No agent can pay to change a ranking, and no agent has been removed from a ranking for declining to pay.

You do not apply. If public records show you closing homes in a covered market, you are already ranked there. Open your market page, find your profile, and use the claim link on it to verify ownership; the get listed page walks through it. If your record is missing or attributed to a team account, tell us and we will re-pull it.