San Antonio’s residential real estate scene in 2025 was not exactly a wide-open free-for-all. A relatively tight circle of 15 brokerage firms controlled more than $9.3 billion in transactions across the broader Alamo City region, with both national franchises and long-established local outfits claiming large slices of the market. For buyers, sellers and agents trying to see who is really moving property, this ranking functions as a quick snapshot of the firms closing the most deals right now.
According to the San Antonio Business Journal, the list, published June 26, 2026 and compiled by data reporter Ramzi Abou Ghalioum, shows the 15 largest residential brokerages collectively reporting more than $9.3 billion in 2025 transaction volume. The ranking pulls in activity from offices in Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and Wilson counties, and every firm on the list had to close at least one residential transaction in 2025 to qualify.
Who Topped the List
Local and national tracking points to a familiar cast of heavy hitters near the top. RealTrends’ 2026 verified brokerage rankings flag Coldwell Banker D’Ann Harper, Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty, Keller Williams Legacy and Phyllis Browning Company as among the leading San Antonio players, according to RealTrends. Whether a company ranks higher by sheer sales volume or by transaction sides can shift how it appears on locally compiled lists, but the firms that keep repeating across rankings are the ones with the biggest San Antonio footprints.
Market Snapshot
Those production numbers are landing in a market that looks far calmer than the pandemic-era frenzy. The San Antonio Board of REALTORS®’ 2025 residential market review described conditions as stabilizing and projected a measured outlook for 2026, citing improving affordability and more predictable seasonal patterns, per SABOR. On the ground, the pace has picked up: May home sales rose nearly 5% year over year and the median price sat at about $306,000, according to Texas Public Radio.
How the Ranking Was Compiled
The Business Journal notes that its list is built from a mix of newsroom research and questionnaires submitted by firms, with employment and office counts drawn from company disclosures, federal filings and other public records. Brokerages that did not return surveys were still ranked based on SABJ research, and when multiple firms tied, the outlet broke ties first by transaction count and then alphabetically, per the San Antonio Business Journal. The publication also points out that some figures were self-reported by companies and could not be independently verified, a standard caveat with list-style rankings.
What Buyers and Sellers Should Know
Scale matters, but it is not the only thing. Large brokerages often tout broader marketing exposure, more robust tech platforms and sprawling referral networks, while smaller boutique firms typically lean on hyperlocal expertise and hands-on, concierge-style service. RealTrends’ verified data helps draw that line by showing which firms dominate by dollar volume and which win on transaction sides, giving consumers a clearer sense of how a brokerage’s strengths line up with their own needs, according to RealTrends.
The full 15-firm ranking lives in the Business Journal’s lists package, where readers can dig into firm-by-firm breakdowns. Hoodline previously spotlighted a related Business Journal dataset on luxury producers, describing how a smaller circle of top agents closed roughly $852 million in high-end sales in 2025, which shows just how tightly the upper tier of the market concentrates volume among a few high-output teams, per San Antonio’s elite luxury agents. For local agents, the rankings double as recruiting fodder and marketing brag sheets, and for consumers they serve as a starting point for figuring out which companies actually sell homes in the neighborhoods that matter to them.
