How agents are ranked for a home’s seats.
Each home takes up to 10 sealed proposals. Entry is ranked by verified performance, never by payment. This page is the whole method — what is measured, who verified it, how it is weighted, and what it is forbidden to use — published so we can be held to it.
What happens when a home is posted
1. Everyone who could propose is considered. Licensed in the home’s state, with the home’s ZIP code inside their plan’s coverage. That is eligibility, and it is the only place a plan is consulted.
2. Agents with verified performance are ranked, highest score first; the earliest verification breaks ties. The top 10 are the home’s ranked entrants, and each has one seat held for 24 hours.
3. Every other seat is open at once, first come, to any eligible agent. When the window closes, any held seat nobody took opens too.
4. The database enforces it. The same rule that caps a home at 10 proposals refuses to seat an unranked agent in a held seat. No page, script or future bug can get around it.
With no scored agent in reach, nothing is held and every seat is open from the start. The promise holds either way: nobody with verified performance is passed over.
The score: four verified measures, published weights
A score is 0 to 100, computed only from verified figures. A missing measure contributes nothing; it is never guessed. An agent with no verified figure on file has no score and is never ranked — absence of evidence is not a low score.
| Measure | Weight | Full marks | Who verifies it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Closings in the last 12 months | 40 | 40 or more closings | Attested by the agent’s managing broker, or recorded here when a home chosen on AnyHomeSold closes. |
| Median days on market | 20 | Full marks at 0 days, none at 120 or more | Attested by the managing broker from the brokerage’s own production report, with the date range and the MLS named. |
| List-to-sale ratio | 25 | Full marks at 100% of list price, none at 90% or below | Attested by the managing broker for the same period as the closings figure. |
| Homeowner rating | 15 | Full marks at 5.0, none at 1.0 | First-party only: a review written by a homeowner after a sale that started here. Portal reviews are shown on profiles as links, never counted. |
Each verified figure records who verified it, when, and the date range it covers, and expires after twelve months. Every ranking decision keeps a copy of the exact figures that produced it, so any seat can be traced back to its evidence.
What the ranking can never use
- Which plan an agent pays for, or whether they pay at all. Plans decide where an agent may compete; they are never a ranking input.
- How long an agent has subscribed, when they claimed their profile, or how many seats they have taken before.
- Any figure an agent typed in themselves. Self-reported production is labelled agent-reported on profiles and is invisible to the ranking.
- Reviews from portals or other websites. They can be linked from a profile; they are never scored.
Disclosures
- Payment affects eligibility — where an agent may compete — and never rank. Both plans are ranked identically.
- The ranking covers only agents who claimed a profile and had figures verified. It is self-selected, not a census of the market.
- It is not a consumer report and must not be used for employment, credit, insurance or tenant-screening decisions.
- Disputes: email info@anyhomesold.com with the figure and the evidence; answered within five business days.
What does “ranked by verified performance” mean in practice?
When a homeowner posts a home, every agent who could propose on it is considered. Those with verified performance on file are ranked by their score, highest first, and the top 10 become the home’s ranked entrants: each has a seat held for 24 hours. Every other seat is open to any eligible agent immediately, first come. When the window closes, any held seat nobody took opens too. The database enforces the held seats itself, so no application code can seat an agent past a ranked one.
What if no agent near the home has verified performance yet?
Then nothing is held and every seat is open from the moment the home is posted, first come. The promise still holds: no agent with verified performance was passed over. The compose page and the alert email say plainly when that is the case.
Can paying more move an agent up?
No. The scoring function reads only the verified performance table. It has no access to subscriptions, tiers, or payment history, and an automated test in our build fails if that ever changes. Payment affects eligibility (which ZIP codes an agent may compete in), and we disclose that here because a ranking that hid it would be misleading.
Who verifies the numbers?
A managing broker attests production figures from the brokerage’s own records; an agent cannot sign for themselves. Closings and homeowner ratings that originate on AnyHomeSold are recorded by us from the sale itself. Each verified figure carries who verified it, when, and for what date range, and expires after twelve months so a ranking never rests on stale production.
Is this a ranking of every agent in the market?
No. It covers only agents who claimed a profile here and whose figures were verified. It is self-selected, not a census, and it must not be used for employment, credit, insurance, or tenant-screening decisions.
How does an agent dispute a figure?
Email info@anyhomesold.com with the figure and the evidence. We answer within five business days, correct anything shown to be wrong, and the corrected figure re-scores immediately.
The short version for homeowners: how are competing agents ranked?
Get your production verified
Claim your profile, then ask your managing broker to attest your last twelve months of production. Verified figures rank you into held seats on every home in your coverage; nothing you can pay for does.
Find your licence — claiming is free, no card