REMAX, short for "real estate maximums", was founded in 1973 by Dave Liniger, an agent who saw a flawed system and set out to fix it. He felt that agents should pay their fair share of the office expenses and keep the remainder of their commissions, just like doctors and lawyers. The company he worked for turned his idea away, so he set off on his own and created REMAX. He didn’t realize it at the time, but his revolutionary ideas would produce the largest, most successful real estate company in the world.

He set up a business model that allows agents to keep their commissions, run their own businesses, and simply pay an agreed upon fee for their fair share of the overhead. Liniger’s concept put tremendous pressure on the other companies to change the way that agents are compensated. Agents across America have financially benefited from the REMAX system.

Today, REMAX has more than 120,000 agents in he United States and over 65 other countries. It is the only real estate franchise company in the world to achieve nearly 400 consecutive months of growth (and counting) an achievement REMAX accomplished one agent at a time.

Each REMAX office is an independently owned and operated franchise. We all share the famous balloon logo, the national advertising, and many amazing corporate resources, like the REMAX Satellite Network, but each franchise offers its own unique values and benefits. REMAX Allegiance has the size, technology, products and buying power to give agents benefits that smaller franchises could never afford. We are the world’s #1 REMAX brokerage. We’re not just REMAX, we’re REMAX Allegiance.

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