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Real Estate Transaction Reports & Industry Research
Original research from real closed transactions. Explore commission rates, agent production and what brokerages keep, with public findings and free PDF reports.
8%
of all US real-estate transactions
1,700+
active brokerages
$1.5T
in closed volume
2009
in live production since
Paperless Pipeline platform-wide figures, as of October 2026. Each report uses its own stated sample. In live production since 2009: 17 years of transaction records.
Latest report / 2026
What 328,000 closed transactions say about brokerages in 2026
Buyer-agent commissions, agent production and brokerage revenue, drawn from aggregated, anonymized data across 634 Paperless Pipeline brokerages.
January 2024 - September 2026 · 7 min read
Research from real transaction records
Paperless Pipeline has been in live production since 2009. These reports draw on aggregated, anonymized customer data, not survey responses. Each report identifies its sample, periods and limits, so you can see what the numbers do and do not show.
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