Marti Realty Group and New Home Buddy Join KW to Expand Nationwide

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 6, 2026--

Marti Realty Group (MRG), a top teamerage-style, independent brokerage, is now affiliated with Keller Williams® City-View, a KW-affiliated brokerage in San Antonio, Texas.

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Co-founded by Chris and Meredith Marti, MRG has closed 1,038 transaction sides representing $301.4 million in sales volume year-to-date. In 2025, MRG generated $260.9 million in sales volume across 735 transaction sides.

“We're proud to welcome Marti Realty Group to KW, where our technology, education, and nationwide network will help accelerate an already exceptional business while creating even greater opportunities for affiliated agents,” said Wendi Harrelson, Divisional Leader, Keller Williams Realty, LLC.

Beyond brokerage, Chris and Meredith Marti have built an entrepreneurial ecosystem that delivers a powerful new construction real estate experience. It includes New Home Buddy, a technology platform that connects home builders, agents, and buyers.

New Home Buddy currently displays new construction homes for a majority of the national production builders operating within Texas and will now expand their offering across the U.S.

The ecosystem also includes Numouve, which is powered by Homeward and serves as its Builder and New Construction division, helping agents directly unlock buy-before-you-sell and cash-offer solutions for clients purchasing newly built homes.

“We didn't join KW simply to grow our team,” said Chris Marti. “We joined because KW believes in entrepreneurship, has unmatched scale, and a culture that supports everything we believe.”

With KW's large affiliated-agent base and national scope, Chris and Meredith intend to expand the success of their platform across the U. S. and create more opportunities for consumers, builders, and entrepreneurs.

“KW is the place where entrepreneurs thrive, and I couldn't be more excited to make their platform, models, and systems accessible to our KW family,” said Harrelson.

MRG currently has 16 affiliated agents and 24 staff members.

“We've built an incredible business independently, but we reached a point where the next stage of growth required us to live as Gary Keller does – thinking big, acting bold, and succeeding through others. That's exactly what we’re going to do, and that's who KW truly is,” said Meredith Marti.

About Keller Williams

Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams Realty, LLC is the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count with a global network of offices and affiliated agents. The franchise is No. 1 in units and sales volume in the U.S.

Since 1983, the company has cultivated an agent-centric, technology-driven, and education-based culture that rewards affiliated agents. For more information, visit kwri.kw.com.

Chris Marti, Co-Founder of Marti Realty Group

Hundreds of flights were canceled in the U.S. Northeast due to technical problems at a key regional air traffic control center, as every major airport in the New York City area ground to a halt for several hours Monday just as numerous foreign leaders were flying to the United Nations General Assembly.

However, President Donald Trump's flight from Washington to New York was able to depart as scheduled.

The technical problems happened at the same Federal Aviation Administration facility in Philadelphia that caused numerous disruptions at Newark Liberty International Airport in the spring of 2025.

Regional control centers like these have two lines that carry data in and out: the primary and the backup. The FAA said a circuit on the primary failed Monday morning, and when the system tried to switch to the backup, workers discovered that the fiber optic line had been cut. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said an Amtrak construction crew was to blame.

The outage affected flights for Philadelphia as well as Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports.

By early afternoon, some flights were starting to resume at LaGuardia, Kennedy and in Philadelphia. However, significant delays were expected through the rest of the day.

Some airlines were allowing their customers to change flights without charging them fees. The FAA advised travelers to check the status of their flights with their airline before heading to the airport.

FAA administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters that the agency is working to restore the primary connection as soon as possible by installing a new circuit on the primary line, while also working to repair the backup fiber optic line. He said it’s not clear how long that will take. Verizon said its technicians are working to restore service as soon as possible.

“That fiber break is probably 13 hours to repair. It’s massive,” Bedford said, according to a video posted online by a CBS transportation reporter. He said that the FAA may be able to install a new circuit to get the primary line working again even before the fiber line is fixed.

The primary circuit that failed is due to be replaced as part of the overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system.

Also Monday, the FAA began testing a new computer system that uses AI to help predict schedule conflicts and weather issues to help air traffic controllers reroute traffic. But that system is initially being tested only in the Washington, D.C., area, so it does not appear to be linked to the outages.

FILE - A traveler with a smartphone walks past an air traffic control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)