The brokerage's published charges, stated in full
How Much Does It Cost to Join Real Brokerage in Texas?
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Bottom line: Real Brokerage charges 15 percent of each commission until you cap: $12,000 a year for an individual agent, $6,000 on a team, $4,000 on a team with over $100M in volume. Add a $900 annual fee and per-transaction fees. No monthly office fee.
What does Real Brokerage take from each commission?
Fifteen percent, until you cap. On every closing before the cap you keep 85 percent of the commission and Real Brokerage charges 15 percent. Once the 15 percent you have paid in your anniversary year reaches your cap, Real Brokerage's share drops to 0 percent for the rest of that year, and the split resets on your anniversary date.
The split is the brokerage's and is the same for every agent at the same cap level. It is not negotiated agent by agent, which is why a page can state it.
How much is the cap, and which one applies to you?
Three caps exist. An individual agent caps at $12,000 a year. An agent on a team caps at $6,000. An agent on a team with over $100M in annual volume caps at $4,000, which is where members of Houston Properties Team sit.
Which cap you get is a fact about how you join, not something you choose on the form: an agent joining Real Brokerage on their own name is an individual agent, whoever they name as sponsor.
What are the fees beyond the split?
Three, as of September 2026. A $900 annual fee. A $50 fee on each transaction. And a $285 fee on each sale once you have capped, which is what remains of the brokerage's charge after its share of the commission has gone to 0 percent.
There is no monthly office fee and no desk fee. Real Brokerage has no offices to pay for, and that is the arithmetic behind the cap being where it is.
What does this page not tell you?
What you will keep in a year. That depends on your volume, your average commission and when in your anniversary year you cap, and the only honest version of that arithmetic is your own last twelve months run through these figures.
It also does not tell you what a team charges beyond that, because that is the team's to state and not the brokerage's. Houston Properties Team is one sponsor an agent can name on joining Real Brokerage, and a sponsor moves none of the figures on this page.
Questions & answers
What else do Houston agents ask?
How much is Real Brokerage's cap for a team agent in Texas?
Real Brokerage caps what it charges at $6,000 a year for an agent on a team, $12,000 for an individual agent, and $4,000 for an agent on a team with over $100M in annual volume. Members of Houston Properties Team sit in the $4,000 tier. These are the figures as of September 2026.
The cap is the most 15 percent can add up to in one anniversary year. Once your closings have paid it, Real Brokerage's share is 0 percent on everything else you close that year, and only the per-transaction fees remain. Which cap applies is decided by how you join, not by anything a sponsor can do.
What does Real Brokerage charge after you cap?
After you cap, Real Brokerage's share of your commission is 0 percent for the rest of your anniversary year. What remains is a $285 fee on each sale, alongside the $900 annual fee and the $50 per-transaction fee that apply all year. Houston Properties Team states these as the brokerage publishes them, September 2026.
So a capped agent's closings carry flat fees rather than a percentage, which is why volume changes the arithmetic so sharply above the cap. Run your own last twelve months against these figures rather than a headline split; the two can tell very different stories.
Does Real Brokerage charge monthly office or desk fees?
No. Real Brokerage has no monthly office fee and no desk fee, because it has no offices to pay for. What it charges instead is the 15 percent split until you cap, a $900 annual fee, a $50 fee on each transaction and a $285 fee on each sale once you have capped. Houston Properties Team members pay the same.
The absence of a desk fee is the difference agents from franchise offices notice first, and it is worth checking against your current statement line by line: rent, technology, marketing and printing fees at a franchise are the items that have no equivalent here.