Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® was founded by Richard A. Smith as Richard Smith Company on July 1, 1970, in College Station, Texas. Originally a commercial brokerage company, it entered the resi...
Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® was founded by Richard A. Smith as Richard Smith Company on July 1, 1970, in College Station, Texas. Originally a commercial brokerage company, it entered the residential market in 1971. By the mid '70s, the company had become the volume sales leader in Bryan-College Station with two offices and 16 sales agents handling residential, commercial, industrial, and farm and ranch sales. In 1986, the company affiliated with Coldwell Banker, the nation's largest real estate company, and operated as Coldwell Banker Richard Smith, Realtors®. Since affiliating with Coldwell Banker, the company has grown rapidly. In April of 2015, Coldwell Banker United, Realtors (the franchise) was acquired by Coldwell Banker NRT, but is still operating under the name Coldwell Banker United, Realtors. The reach of Coldwell Banker United, Realtors is now tremendously stronger with over 88,000 sales associates/representatives worldwide and 727,415 transactions completed in 2016 with an average US sales price of $315,324. Locally, Coldwell Banker United, Realtors consists of 8 Austin and Killeen area offices and 320 agents in 2016.