How are competing agents ranked and selected?
Entry into a listing’s ten seats is ranked by verified performance — recent sales volume, days on market, list-to-sale ratio, and homeowner reviews — never by payment. No subscription, upgrade, or add-on can buy a better rank or a seat ahead of a stronger-performing agent.
Reviewed · Reviewed by Kristian Peter, CA DRE #01308663
The factors are deliberately the ones a homeowner would pick if asked: how recently and how much the agent has sold, how long those homes sat, how close the sale price came to the list price, and what sellers who completed a sale said. Self-reported production counts as “agent-reported” until a managing broker attests to it; only verified figures feed the ranking.
Mechanically: when a home is posted, the eligible agents with verified performance are ranked, highest score first, and the top ten each have a seat held for 24 hours; every other seat is open to any eligible agent at once, first come, and held seats nobody takes open when the window closes. The database itself refuses to seat an unranked agent in a held seat. The full method — four measures, their weights, who verifies each — is published at anyhomesold.com/agents/ranking.
What the ranking ignores is as important as what it uses. Subscription tier, account age, how many seats an agent has taken before, and whether an agent has ever paid for anything are all invisible to it. The two plans differ in how many areas an agent can see, never in where they land on a list.
Because the promise is load-bearing, it is published in machine-readable form on the site — in the FAQ structured data that search engines and AI assistants read — so it cannot quietly drift without the public copy drifting with it.