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Real's Policy Changes by Date: Fees, Revenue Share, Stock, Originate and RE/MAX
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Bottom line: Every change to Real's fees, revenue share, agent stock, Originate and RE/MAX status since January 2026, newest first, with the earlier ones still in force. Each line has a date and the Real document that shows it.
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What has Real changed since January 2026?
Thirteen lines, newest first, each from a document Real published or filed. Where a help article gives no start date for a change, the line says so and gives the date Real edited the article.
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 4 September 2026 | The Real Brokerage Inc. filed a Form 15 to end its separate reporting to the SEC, since Real REMAX Group Inc. reports as its successor. Source: Form 15 of The Real Brokerage Inc., September 2026. |
| 1 September 2026 | In the US, Real's compliance and broker review fee went from $40 to $50 a transaction and its annual brokerage fee from $750 to $900, and Real cut its Elite post-cap fee from $129 to $100 on transactions created from this date. Source: Real's article on inviting an agent to a team, June 2026; its US fee schedule, August 2026; the same schedule as archived in June 2025. |
| 1 September 2026 | Real began paying US agents' revenue share, and Real Retirement payments, only into a Real Wallet business checking account, holding any missed payment until the account is open. Source: Real's articles on when revenue share is paid and on Real Retirement, August 2026. |
| 31 August 2026 | Real's Canadian fee schedule, edited this day, puts the Elite post-cap fee at $150 CAD, where the version archived in July 2025 said $175 CAD. It gives no start date. Its CBR fee of $40 CAD and Brokerage and Risk Management Fee of $1,200 CAD read as they did. Source: Real's Canadian fee schedule, August 2026, and its July 2025 version. |
| 25 August 2026 | Shares of Real REMAX Group Inc. began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol REAX. Source: Real REMAX Group's release on the completion, August 2026. |
| 24 August 2026 | Real's combination with RE/MAX Holdings closed, and the combined company operates as Real REMAX Group Inc. First, every 10 Real shares were consolidated into one, and each holder's Real restricted share units were divided by 10 and exchanged for Real REMAX Group units with the same vesting terms. Source: Real REMAX Group's Form 8-K on the closing, August 2026. |
| 14 August 2026 | Real's securityholders, voting as shareholders, optionholders and holders of restricted share units, approved the combination with RE/MAX Holdings, of which the share consolidation was part. Source: Real's report of the voting results, August 2026. |
| 6 August 2026 | Real reported 35,348 agents at 30 June 2026, up 26% on a year earlier, and 137 of One Real Mortgage's 169 loan officers in the Real Originate program as of August 2026. Source: Real's results release for the second quarter of 2026. |
| 2 June 2026 | Real announced that it had expanded into New Brunswick, its sixth Canadian province. Source: The corporate update in the same release. |
| 7 May 2026 | Real reported 33,510 agents at 31 March 2026, up 25% on a year earlier, and 99 of One Real Mortgage's 134 loan officers in Real Originate as of May 2026. Source: Real's results release for the first quarter of 2026. |
| 27 April 2026 | Real announced an agreement, signed on 26 April, to acquire RE/MAX Holdings, and wrote to its agents that Real would keep operating as its own brokerage and that nothing about their business changed that day. Source: Real's announcement and its letter to agents, filed with the SEC in April 2026. |
| 4 March 2026 | Real reported 31,739 agents at 31 December 2025, and 85 of One Real Mortgage's 119 loan officers in Real Originate as of February 2026. Source: Real's results release for 2025. |
| 20 January 2026 | Kate Gurevich became chief executive of One Real Mortgage, the Real company that runs Real Originate. Source: Corporate update in the release on Real's 2025 results. |
Which earlier changes still matter?
Three from 2025, each still in force, and each still part of what an agent decides before joining.
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | Real began operating in Saskatchewan, its fifth Canadian province. Source: Real's results release for the third quarter of 2025. |
| 29 August 2025 | Real added two new ways to open revenue share tiers 3 to 5, one by the size of a sponsor's whole network and one by the sponsor's own production. Before, only the count of producing agents a sponsor brought in opened tiers. Source: Real's article on opening tiers, August 2025, and its version archived in June 2025. |
| 14 August 2025 | Co-sponsors named from this date split the sponsor's share 50% each, where earlier co-sponsors split it 45% each with 10% to Real, and an agent whose only sponsor leaves Real from this date can name a new co-sponsor 30 days later. Source: Real's articles on co-sponsored revenue share, August 2025, and on a sponsor who leaves, June 2026. |
What about Real Originate?
Real dates no change to the program's terms in 2026. Its article on Real Originate, rewritten in April 2026, keeps the conditions of its 2025 version: an agent in the program is a part-time W2 employee of One Real Mortgage, licensed as a loan originator through the NMLS and paired with an internal loan officer. What Real's releases do date is the program's size and One Real Mortgage's new chief executive, both in the table above.
Questions & answers
What else do agents in the US and Canada ask?
When did Real change its co-sponsor rules?
On 14 August 2025. Co-sponsors named from that date split the sponsor's share of Real's split 50% each, where co-sponsors named earlier split it 45% each with 10% to Real. The same date opened a way back for an agent whose only sponsor leaves: 30 days after the sponsor leaves, the agent can name a new co-sponsor.
An agent with two co-sponsors cannot name a new one if either leaves, and an agent whose sponsor left before 14 August 2025 cannot name a new co-sponsor at all. The other cases Real's rules cover, from a sponsor who comes back to an agent who rejoins, are set out on the page about who should be your sponsor at Real.
When did Real add new ways to open revenue share tiers?
In August 2025. Real's article on opening tiers, edited on 29 August 2025, marks two paths as new: one by the size of a sponsor's whole network, and one by the sponsor's own production, which opens tiers up to the third at the full cap and up to the fifth at Elite status. The version archived in June 2025 opens tiers only by the count of producing agents a sponsor brought in.
That count still works as it did: five producing Tier 1 agents open Tier 2, and 15, 20 and 25 open Tiers 3, 4 and 5. How the tiers open, what each pays and who gets paid are set out on the page about revenue share at Real.