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Agent-to-agent referrals: one agent brings the client, one agent takes it — we make the match
Realtors hand each other clients across city lines every day. This program is how it runs inside the Realtor Referral Hub: every request is graded, routed to one agent, and gated — the receiver signs the finder’s fee agreement before any client information moves. At closing, the receiving agent pays the standard 25% referral fee to the sending agent plus a 10% finder’s fee to the network. Both fees exist only at a closing. Nothing up front, nothing monthly.
The split, at a glance
- Sending agent (brings the client): receives 25% of the receiving side at closing — whole, never cut.
- The network (makes the match): receives a 10% finder’s fee at closing, paid by the receiving agent.
- Receiving agent (takes the client): pays both — 35% of their side in total — and keeps 65% before their own brokerage split and costs.
- On a $400,000 sale (3% side = $12,000): sender $3,000 · network $1,200 · receiver keeps $7,800.
Easy by design
- Right in your thread. We message you the request — metro, side, and how strong the lead is. Reply, and the agreement comes right back in the same thread. No website trip, no account, nothing to install.
- Pre-filled. The 10% finder’s fee agreement arrives already filled in with your name, your brokerage, and your metro. You don’t type your life story — you just sign.
- Sign once. Sign it on your phone in under a minute — that one standing agreement then covers every agent-to-agent lead we send you. No new paper per lead, ever.
- Details in the same thread. Sign, and the client’s details arrive right there in that same thread. No waiting on us, no back-and-forth.
What is the agent-to-agent referral program?
It is how realtors in this network hand clients to each other across city lines. One realtor brings a client who is buying or selling outside their own area, and another realtor takes that client in the city where the client is headed. The network makes the match: each request is routed to ONE agent — the territory owner for that metro first, and if they pass, the next area agent. The routed agent gets the request messaged to them in the thread they already use — email or DM — as a graded lead: the metro, the side, and the grade. We never send agents a link to our website; the whole flow runs in that thread. There is no blast to the whole metro, no lead auction, and no bidding.
How does an agent-to-agent referral work, step by step?
First, a realtor brings a client — or a request lands in our Facebook group or on this website. Second, the desk grades the lead and spreads the request at teaser level: it is posted in the group and DM’d showing the metro, the side, and the grade only — never the client’s information. Third, the request is routed to one agent — territory owner first, next area agent second — and we message it to them in the thread they already use, email or DM: the metro, the side, and the grade, nothing more. Fourth, they reply, and the 10% finder’s fee agreement arrives right back in that same thread — pre-filled with their name, brokerage, and metro, so they just sign it, on their phone, in under a minute, with no account, no app, and no website trip. It is a standing agreement: sign once, and it covers every agent-to-agent lead routed to you afterward — no new paper per lead. Fifth — and only then — the client’s details are sent in that same thread, and the desk makes the introduction personally. At closing, the fees settle under the signed paper (see Policy 13 of the Referral Policies).
What do soft, average, and good leads mean?
Every agent-to-agent lead is graded honestly before it is routed. A SOFT lead is a need we have sighted: the city and the side (buying or selling) are known, and nothing is confirmed yet. An AVERAGE lead has an identified sender, a known side and timeline, and a contact we can reach. A GOOD lead is confirmed and ready: a near timeline, the client’s contact in hand, and the client ready to be introduced. The grade travels with the lead — in the post, the DM, and the email — so you know what you are looking at before you take it.
What does the receiving agent pay at closing?
Two fees, both at closing and both under the signed paper: 25% of the receiving side’s commission goes to the sending agent, and a 10% finder’s fee goes to this network for making the match — 35% of the side in total. Nothing is owed up front, nothing is owed monthly, and if the client does not close, nothing is owed at all. Both fees flow broker-to-broker, the way referral fees are legally paid.
What does the sending agent receive?
The full standard 25% referral fee at closing, paid by the receiving agent. The network’s 10% finder’s fee is paid by the receiving agent on top of it — it never comes out of the sending agent’s 25%.
What does an agent-to-agent referral cost on a $400,000 home?
On a $400,000 sale with a 3% commission side, the side is $12,000. The sending agent receives $3,000 (25%). The network receives $1,200 — the 10% finder’s fee. The receiving agent keeps $7,800 before their own brokerage split and costs. For that, the receiving agent got a graded, routed client with no monthly fee, no per-lead charge, and no cost at all if the deal never closes.
Why does the network charge a 10% finder’s fee?
Because the network does the finding. We watch the referral groups and our own website around the clock, read every request, grade it, route it to one agent instead of blasting it across a metro, hold the client’s information until the agreement is signed, and run the paper and the tracking behind the placement. The 10% is paid once, at a closing, by the agent who received the client — it is the only charge in the agent-to-agent program.
Why must the agreement be signed before the client’s information is released?
That is the gate that protects everyone. Until the routed agent signs the 10% finder’s fee agreement, every surface — the group post, the DM, and the email — shows the metro, the side, and the grade only. No client name, no contact details. The agreement is a standing agreement — sign once and it covers every agent-to-agent lead routed to you afterward — and signing takes under a minute, right in the message thread, on your phone. The moment it is signed, the client’s details are sent in that same thread and the desk makes the introduction. The request itself stays open and visible at teaser level the whole time — the gate is on the information, not on spreading the request.
Can realtors see each other’s names, or a client’s details, on this website?
No. This website never publishes realtor names to each other or to the public, and it never shows a client’s or a sender’s contact details. Realtors do not message or engage with each other on this site at all. Every introduction is made personally by the desk, run by Steven Mock — the only name on this site is his, as the operator.
How is an agent-to-agent referral different from a homeowner referral?
One line: when the homeowner is ours — they came to us through this website or our homeowner group — the network is the referring side, the receiving agent pays the standard 25% to us at closing, and there is no separate finder’s fee.
How do I bring a client, or start receiving agent-to-agent leads?
Join the network — it is free, with the form below. To bring a client, tell the desk their city and timeline; we grade the lead and route it to one agent there. To receive leads, claim your metro: territory owners get first routing on every lead in their metro, before the next area agent is offered it. Every placement runs on the same written Referral Policies — the finder’s fee is Policy 13.
The full program: Referral Chase
The whole chase on one page — the 10 steps every referral runs, and the every-channel surround that works it from all sides until it closes: Referral Chase →
The rules it runs on
Every agent-to-agent placement runs on the same written Referral Policies as every other placement in this network — the finder’s fee is Policy 13, alongside paper-first, the title-company and closing-notice deadlines, the invoice, and the non-payment steps. Read them before your first match.
Join the network — free
Bring your next out-of-area client here, or claim your metro and start receiving routed leads. Listing is free, matching is free, and the only money that ever moves is at a closing.