Real estate companies in Dallas: CBRE, the REITs on Crescent Court and LBJ Freeway, and the licensed market

Google's results for "real estate companies in Dallas" mix Dallas-Fort Worth home brokerages, commercial tenant-rep firms and a real estate CRM vendor, so this search comes from home buyers and sellers, businesses looking for space, people who want to work in real estate, and vendors who sell to the industry. This page covers each: the companies headquartered here, the market in Census and state licence data, how to vet a firm, what Texas requires of sellers' agents, and how to prospect. The Census figures cover Dallas County only; Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties are outside them.

Real estate companies headquartered in Dallas

SEC-registered listed companies with real estate codes and a Dallas County business address, ranked by 2025 revenue and checked against each latest Form 10-K:

The filings show how differently these firms are staffed. CBRE had more than 155,000 employees worldwide at the end of 2025, including Turner & Townsend. NETSTREIT had 29 full-time employees and FrontView 22. One company that EDGAR data places in Dallas, Fermi Inc., gives Amarillo on its 10-K cover, so it's left out. Compare them with the rest of the country in the biggest real estate companies in the US.

Dallas County in Census data

County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023, real estate (NAICS 531), Dallas County, Texas:

Average pay is our calculation: payroll divided by employees. The appraisers' employee count is published but flagged as high-noise: confidentiality noise moved it by 5% or more.

CBP counts establishments with paid employees, so a headquarters office counts once however many sites the company runs, and self-employed agents are left out. The small "other services" group has very high average pay, which suggests a few highly paid offices; treat it with care. Homebuilders and land developers are classified in construction. For the code a firm should use, see the NAICS code for property management.

Licensed brokers in Dallas County

The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) publishes its full licence register as open data. Active licences in Dallas County in the file updated 29 October 2026: 1,608 broker companies, 3,603 individual brokers and 11,942 sales agents, out of 13,809, 33,490 and 140,919 statewide. Against 1,297 brokerage establishments with paid staff, the register shows how many firms run on commission agents alone.

How to vet a Dallas brokerage or manager

1. Look up the agent and the company on TREC's licence holder search, and check both are active.
2. Expect the IABS notice. TREC requires license holders to give the Information About Brokerage Services form at the first substantive communication about a specific property (with exceptions such as short residential leases), and to link it from their website's home page. If it's missing, ask why.
3. Ask a manager about scale. Dallas residential managers run large teams; ask who your day-to-day contact is, how many doors that person handles, and how after-hours repairs work.
4. For office or industrial space, ask whether the broker represents only tenants or also the landlords whose buildings they'll show you.

Selling a home in Dallas

• Check the appraisal district record. The Dallas Central Appraisal District publishes appraised values and property records; know yours before you set a price.
• Fill in the Seller's Disclosure Notice. Texas sellers of a previously occupied single-family home must give the buyer TREC's form 55-1, which covers the property's condition and history.
• Negotiate the listing terms. Since 17 August 2024, buyer-agent pay can't be offered on a Realtor MLS, and buyers sign their own agreements before touring; the National Association of Realtors' settlement notes say compensation is "not set by law and is fully negotiable."
• Read the IABS notice your listing agent gives you, so you know whom they represent if they also show the home to buyers.

Prospecting Dallas real estate companies

Dallas is unusual in having head offices whose buying covers portfolios well beyond the county, so one Dallas account can open a national contract. Most of the market, though, is local brokerages and managers.

Illustrative example. The company, rates and results are invented.

Trinity Air Service (trinityair.example) offers HVAC maintenance plans to apartment managers. It targets the residential managers in Dallas County with 20 to 999 employees: 33 + 13 + 10 + 6 + 3 = 65 offices (the 1,000-plus cell for this type isn't published). With three contacts each (owner or president, director of maintenance, regional manager), that's 195 people. A 5% reply rate gives about 10 conversations, and if one in three agrees to a pilot community, about 3 pilots. Bebop finds managers like these and writes the account research for each. For brokerages, where agents often buy their own tools, see selling to real estate agents.

Subject: HVAC at [community]

Hi [first name], congratulations on taking over [community]. New portfolios usually come with a backlog of HVAC work orders before summer. We can survey every unit in the first two weeks and give you a fixed monthly plan, so your team isn't chasing vendors in July. Worth a 15-minute call this week?

Sources

For every industry in the county, see companies in Dallas, and for the Gulf Coast market, real estate companies in Houston.

Next step: find the right person at each account with how to find decision makers.