LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 25, 2025--
Robert Palmer, founder and CEO of LPT Realty and RP Funding, announced that his cloud-based real estate brokerage firm is now in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and three provinces of Canada (British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan) – all in just three years. This rapid, record growth makes LPT Realty the fastest-growing, largest, single-entity brokerage by agent count in history with over 15,000 agents. It is also the first privately-held brokerage to achieve full U.S. market coverage, setting a new industry benchmark and laying the groundwork for unstoppable global growth.
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RealTrends Verified, which analyzes brokerage, team, and agent performance data and highlights the top 1.5% of real estate pros, released its 2024 rankings and has just placed LPT Realty at #10 by transaction, up from #28 last year. According to Caroline Scanlon, Director, RealTrends Verified, “This level of growth is rare. . .more than doubling both transaction sides and volume year over year. This represents one of the largest year-over-year gains we’ve seen — a clear signal of serious momentum and market share gains.”
The Real Estate Almanac, published annually by T3 Sixty, trusted advisor to the residential real estate brokerage industry, has just named LPT Realty #10 nationally in transactions (36,369) with year-over-year Transaction Sides Change of 175.2%, and sales volume of $13,860 million. LPT Realty was also named the Inman 2024 Most Innovative Brokerage as it continues to innovate the real estate brokerage industry.
Robert Palmer explains, “Most brokerage models serve one agent avatar, but what if one brokerage could serve all of them? That’s what we built. We call it a ‘brokerage for life.’ Wherever an agent is in their life cycle, we have a model for them. Agents need freedom, flexibility and support. They need to define success on their own terms. That’s why we’ve built a brokerage model with no walls — physically or philosophically.”
Palmer’s leadership and industry foresight helped him move up 103 spots to No. 68 on the Swanepoel Power 200, an annual ranking of the most influential leaders in residential real estate published by T3 Sixty for 2025. Additionally, Inman Power Players just named Palmer as one of the most innovative and influential executives in the real estate industry.
LPT Realty’s agent-centric model offers flexible compensation, including the option to choose one’s own commission plan and revenue-sharing opportunities. They provide “unfair advantages” to agents with first-of-its-kind technology, proprietary marketing tools, and one of the industry’s most comprehensive training programs.
Palmer says: “We’re here to build the best brokerage platform agents have ever seen. I’m so proud of what our brokers have accomplished, and we are just getting started!”
Over the past year, LPT Realty has been scaling for growth and positioning for a future IPO. As the founder of LPT Realty, Palmer has built a portfolio of industry-leading companies focused on innovation, agent success and consumer empowerment.
“From the outset, LPT Realty’s mission has been to redefine what a real estate brokerage can achieve. Growing to 15,000 agents within the first three years demonstrates the strength of this vision. Now, with operations in all 50 states and Canada, we are thrilled to extend the opportunities that have energized our agents to an even broader audience,” stated Palmer.
Learn more at lpt.com.
About Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer is a visionary entrepreneur and founder of several award-winning companies, including LPT Realty. He is recognized for transforming the real estate business and bringing forward-thinking marketing strategies that have redefined industry norms. His career is marked by leveraging cutting-edge technologies to bridge gaps and solve challenges for consumers, agents, and industry professionals.
With more than 20 years of success, Robert Palmer continues to empower professionals, making a lasting impact on the industry.
About LPT Realty
In only three years, LPT Realty has risen to the top as the fastest-growing, largest single-entity real estate brokerage by agent count, with more than 15,000 agents. It is also the first privately-held brokerage to achieve full U.S. market coverage, setting a new industry benchmark and laying the groundwork for unstoppable global growth. The cloud-based real estate brokerage firm is now in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and three provinces of Canada (British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan).
LPT Realty is a cloud-based real estate brokerage that provides agents with tools, support, and a community to help them build their businesses. LPT Realty has been recognized by Inman as the 2024 Most Innovative Brokerage, and LPT founder and CEO Robert Palmer has been named by Swanepoel as one of the top 200 leaders in real estate. Visit lpt.com.
Robert Palmer, Founder and CEO LPT Realty
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powellsaid Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.
The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he's repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers. The renewed fight will likely rattle financial markets Monday and could over time escalate borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans.
The subpoenas relate to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June, the Fed chair said, regarding the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings, a project Trump has criticized as excessive.
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Stocks are falling on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Department of Justice had served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony about the Fed’s building renovations.
The S&P 500 fell 0.3% in early trading Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 384 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
Powell characterized the threat of criminal charges as pretexts to undermine the Fed’s independence in setting interest rates, its main tool for fighting inflation. The threat is the latest escalation in President Trump’s feud with the Fed.
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She says she had “a very good conversation” with Trump on Monday morning about topics including “security with respect to our sovereignties.”
Last week, Sheinbaum had said she was seeking a conversation with Trump or U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the U.S. president made comments in an interview that he was ready to confront drug cartels on the ground and repeated the accusation that cartels were running Mexico.
Trump’s offers of using U.S. forces against Mexican cartels took on a new weight after the Trump administration deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Sheinbaum was expected to share more about their conversation later Monday.
A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country’s fractured relations with the world’s second-largest economy — and reduce Canada’s dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until recently one of its most supportive and unswerving allies.
The push by Prime Minster Mark Carney, who arrives Wednesday, is part of a major rethink as ties sour with the United States — the world’s No. 1 economy and long the largest trading partner for Canada by far.
Carney aims to double Canada’s non-U.S. exports in the next decade in the face of President Trump’s tariffs and the American leader’s musing that Canada could become “the 51st state.”
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The comment by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson came in response to a question at a regular daily briefing. President Trump has said he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region of NATO ally Denmark, to prevent Russia or China from taking it over.
Tensions have grown between Washington, Denmark and Greenland this month as Trump and his administration push the issue and the White House considers a range of options, including military force, to acquire the vast Arctic island.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that an American takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO.
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Trump said Sunday that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.
“I didn’t like Exxon’s response,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One as he departed West Palm Beach, Florida. “They’re playing too cute.”
During a meeting Friday with oil executives, Trump tried to assuage the concerns of the companies and said they would be dealing directly with the U.S., rather than the Venezuelan government.
Some, however, weren’t convinced.
“If we look at the commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s uninvestable,” said Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company.
An ExxonMobil spokesperson did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment.
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Trump’s motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a “suspicious object,” according to the White House.
The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in advance of Trump’s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport.
“A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.
The president, when asked about the package by reporters, said, “I know nothing about it.”
Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for U.S. Secret Service, said the secondary route was taken just as a precaution and that “that is standard protocol.”
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Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544.
Iran had no direct reaction to Trump’s comments, which came after the foreign minister of Oman — long an interlocutor between Washington and Tehran — traveled to Iran this weekend. It also remains unclear just what Iran could promise, particularly as Trump has set strict demands over its nuclear program and its ballistic missile arsenal, which Tehran insists is crucial for its national defense.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking to foreign diplomats in Tehran, insisted “the situation has come under total control” in fiery remarks that blamed Israel and the U.S. for the violence, without offering evidence.
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Fed Chair Powell said Sunday the DOJ has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.
The move represents an unprecedented escalation in Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers. The renewed fight will likely rattle financial markets Monday and could over time escalate borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans.
The subpoenas relate to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June, the Fed chair said, regarding the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings, a project that Trump has criticized as excessive.
Powell on Sunday cast off what has up to this point been a restrained approach to Trump’s criticisms and personal insults, which he has mostly ignored. Instead, Powell issued a video statement in which he bluntly characterized the threat of criminal charges as simple “pretexts” to undermine the Fed’s independence when it comes to setting interest rates.
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump waves after arriving on Air Force One from Florida, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
