Keller Williams

About Keller Williams

As two young real estate agents working for what was then the largest real estate company in Austin, Texas, Gary Keller and Joe Williams believed that a company should work for its employees rather than the other way around. So the two men joined forces to found Keller Williams Realty in 1983. Four years later the partners began franchising. With offices throughout the country, Keller Williams encourages agents to recruit others into the company through profit-sharing.

Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count, with approximately 800 offices and more than 150,000 associates across the the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The company has grown exponentially since the opening of the first Keller Williams Realty office in 1983, and continues to cultivate an agent-centric, education-based, technology-driven culture that rewards associates as stakeholders.

Keller Williams is more than a name over the door. Our company, our offices and our teams are powered by passionate associates who have a mutual interest in succeeding and changing the real estate industry. In the early days of Keller Williams, Gary Keller asked his top associates a simple question: “How can we build a company that everyone will want to join, and no one will want to leave?” Thirty-plus years later, the guiding practices and principles they agreed to have reshaped an entire industry..

An Interdependent Company Built By Agents, For Agents.

– Shares the Rewards through Profit Share and Growth Share
– Opens the Books
– Empowers Associates through an Associate Leadership Council
– Agrees to a Shared Mission, Vision, Values, Belief System and Perspective

Home to the Tech-Enabled Agent, our business model equips agents with a technological edge and the ability to offer customers whatever they wish. Keller Williams Realty franchise offers an interdependent business model that supports agents and brokers working as a team to maximize productivity and company profits.

Our mission is to build careers worth having, businesses worth owning, lives worth living, experiences worth giving, and legacies worth leaving. Behind each successful market centre or region is a team of high-performing and entrepreneurial franchisees, dedicated to developing and growing the Keller Williams network.