Realtor.com expects that 2021 home sales to measure approximately 6.0 million sales, a 16-year high. The portal’s economist team expects 2022 will see a 6.6 percent increase in sales as well. Increasing sales, along with increasing home prices, are fueling a boom market in the residential real estate brokerage industry. These productive times are helping fuel industry investment and helping give smart brokerages the revenue to innovate and build the systems and models that will sustain them when the market turns.