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HUNT R.E. ranks #5 nationwide and #1 in NY for Core Services Providers in REAL Trends

Buffalo, NY Respected real estate industry publication REAL Trends has released its annual Top 500 survey, recognizing the nation’s largest and most successful real estate firms. The survey includes a ranking of the real estate industry’s Top Core Services Providers, which tallies the number of sales of mortgage, title insurance, and homeowners’ insurance policies – the products that are sold most frequently by residential real estate firms. With 15,164 total core services transactions in 2022, HUNT Real Estate ranks fifth in the nation, and first for real estate firms headquartered in New York State.

HUNT also operates a mortgage banking firm, HUNT Mortgage Corporation, an insurance agency, HUNT Insurance Agency, and a title agency, Network Title Agency of New York and Arizona.

In addition to ranking #5 on the REAL Trends Top Core Services Providers list, HUNT ranked #34 nationwide in 2022 for real estate transactions with 13,997 closed units – up from #40 in 2021. With $4 billion in sales volume sold in 2022, HUNT moved up 23 spots in the REAL Trends Top Sales Volume ranking to #67. 

“This recognition by the prestigious REAL Trends organization is testimony to the focus on growth and productivity evidenced throughout our company in 2022,” said Peter Hunt, chairman and CEO of HUNT Real Estate Corporation. “It was a year with significant challenges, yet our leadership and sales professionals, to whom I am very grateful, rallied for a remarkable collection of achievements.”

REAL Trends collects data submitted by individual brokers nationwide. All sales and transaction data is submitted directly by the brokerage firms and verified by the firm’s financial executives, outside accounting firms and/or corporate franchise headquarters.

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