Despite business practice changes, a housing market slow, stubbornly high mortgage rates and continued housing affordability challenges, REMAX Select and REMAX Select Partners grew transaction sides by 67% between 2021 and 2025. This growth, which included 7,005 transaction sides in 2025 alone, earned the firm a spot on the top-10 of RealTrends Verified 2026 GameChanger rankings.
According to Rob Lyszczarz, the president of REMAX Select, it is all of these changes and challenges that actually helped fuel the growth of his firm over the past five years.
“The changes and challenges have created opportunities within our ecosystem because we have a lot of experienced agents, who are very collaborative, and they have been able to share a lot of ideas, so others have been able to benefit from the successes that they have had,” Lyszczarz said.
A collaborative culture
According to REMAX Select Partners’ managing owner David Haller, this collaboration has also helped by creating an internal referral network within the company.
“Our network has so many agents in different markets, and they communicate with each other so well, so if someone has a client in New Jersey that is looking for a place in Florida, they are able to connect them and keep that client serviced in both places,” Haller said. “That alone has really helped fuel the organic growth of the company.”
This collaborative culture, Haller said, is fostered by the company’s leadership team, which hosts regular check-ins and masterminds with the brokerages, teams and top-agents, making sure everyone is prepared for current market conditions.
“We are helping our agents close multiple deals per month right now at a time when other agents are wondering where their next buyer or seller is going to come from and that brings us so much joy,” Haller said.
According to Lyszczarz, the care that the leadership team shows its agents and team leaders is extended back to them by the agents and team leaders who then refer other agents and teams to REMAX Select that they feel would be a good fit for the firm. As the company continues to grow, Lyszczarz said the firm is able to maintain its culture thanks to the welcoming experience all of their agents create.
“Once you have momentum with a collaborative culture, it becomes this thing that everybody wants to participate in and agents are going out of their way to share successes, challenges, failures and the things they have done to support themselves and their team members to deliver and elevated experience for their clients,” Lyszczarz said. “So at some point the culture has kind of taken on this life of its own. It isn’t just on me or David or the leadership team to carry that weight of the culture, as everybody is collaborating and helping each other.”
Leadership brings agents together
While Haller agrees with this, he added that the leadership team curates several events each year to bring together team leaders and top producers for collaborative experiences.
“They get to come together, build relationships, pour knowledge and guidance into each other in person and then those relationships come back to offices and markets, other agents hear about them and they want to be included, so they come join the firm,” Haller said.
While they are always excited to welcome new teams and agents to the company, Lyszczarz said they don’t always accept everyone.
“We look for synergistic opportunities to grow,” Lyszczarz said. “Over the years there have been an exponential number of opportunities that come our way. [It’s] given us the ability to be a bit more selective in making sure that there is a strategic alignment in the opportunity for growth and that it isn’t just growth for growth’s sake. That has been really important for culture — we don’t want everybody, and we don’t want to corrupt our culture.”
As the market continues to remain challenging, Haller and Lyszczarz say they are working to make sure their agents are anticipating what is going to happen instead of reacting to it.
“That has been a core principle that we’ve adopted to help our agents maintain or grow their level of business, while maintaining a quality of life that keeps them in the business. I think because we don’t play defense, and we are always staying in front of what’s going on, the moment that something happens our agents are on top of it,” Lyszczarz said.
