The Texas agent, who makes a speciality of new building and routinely tops trade lists, bought greater than 6,000 houses final yr, setting a brand new file.
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Ben Caballero, a Texas agent who has persistently set information and landed atop trade rating lists, has set a brand new file for doing probably the most quantity for a single agent in a single yr.
Ben Caballero
In complete, Caballero bought 6,178 houses final yr, representing greater than $3 billion in quantity, in line with a press release. That quantity determine ought to give Caballero the trade crown for 2022 and blows away the file he beforehand set in 2020 when he did $2.46 billion in quantity.
In 2021, Caballero did practically $2 billion in quantity and handily took the highest spot on the distinguished Actual Traits 1000 listing for brokers who do probably the most quantity.
Caballero has the truth is topped the Actual Traits 1000 listing yearly since 2013, usually far outpacing the second-place finisher. In 2015, Caballero was the primary agent to do greater than $1 billion in quantity in a single yr, in line with the assertion. He then went on to do greater than $2 billion in quantity in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
As well as, he set a Guinness World File for promoting probably the most houses in a single yr in 2016 after dealing with 3,556 residence gross sales, the assertion additionally notes. He went on to interrupt that file a number of occasions, in the end promoting 6,438 houses in 2020.
Caballero and his Texas-based firm HomesUSA.com have relationships with greater than 60 new residence builders within the Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio metro areas.
Caballero mentioned that 2022 started slowly for him as a result of the homebuilders he works with had been compelled to promote houses from wait lists, the assertion notes. Nevertheless, because the yr progressed and the market softened within the face of upper mortgage charges, demand for brand new builds elevated — benefiting Caballero’s enterprise.
“The perfect new residence market within the U.S. is Texas and continues to be Texas,” Caballero concluded. “So, turning into a Texan is arguably the perfect enterprise determination I ever made.”
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