GHREAA Ranking Methodology

How GHREAA turns market-specific public evidence into a transparent, comparable local ranking score.

How GHREAA ranks real estate agents

GHREAA rankings are market-specific. An agent can rank differently in Conroe, Willis, or another Greater Houston market because local evidence is evaluated separately for each city.

Current GHREAA Score

The current 100-point framework uses six components: 40 points for local activity, 20 for recent production, 15 for published review evidence, 10 for experience, 10 for local transaction and geographic evidence, and 5 for verification quality.

Team and individual records

When a source identifies production or reviews as team-level, GHREAA labels that scope and normalizes team-scale metrics before comparing them with individual-agent records. Payment, profile claiming, and Advice participation do not affect GHREAA rankings.

Evidence limitations

Displayed transaction rows are evidence records, not a complete career history. Published review counts are source-reported and are not presented as reviews collected by GHREAA. Source counts can change between checks and may use different definitions.

GHREAA Score v1.0

How the ranking score works

The GHREAA Score is calculated separately inside each local market. It is a comparative score, not a universal grade: an agent's score reflects the evidence available for that agent relative to the other published agents in the same city ranking.

40Local activity

Source-reported sales associated with the city, normalized across the current ranked cohort.

20Recent production

Published 12-month production, normalized across the city cohort.

15Review evidence

Published review volume plus rating quality. GHREAA does not treat third-party reviews as first-party reviews.

10Experience

Published experience, capped at 25 years so tenure does not overwhelm current evidence.

10Local evidence

Recency-weighted transaction evidence, ZIP coverage, and explicit service-area presence.

5Verification

License, source dates, review/transaction source labels, and structured transaction evidence.

Team metrics are normalized

When a public source identifies production as team-level, GHREAA applies a scope adjustment before comparing it with individual-agent production. Team production is not treated as one-for-one individual production.

Evidence records are not a complete history

Displayed transaction rows are corroborating evidence. The score does not claim that GHREAA has reconstructed every transaction completed by an agent or team.

Older evidence decays

Transaction evidence from roughly the last 18 months receives full local-evidence weight; older evidence receives progressively less weight while remaining useful for corroboration.

Scores recalculate when data changes

Public ordering is generated from the current evidence set. Adding or correcting source data can therefore change both an agent's score and rank.

Buyer, seller and ZIP lists are secondary evidence views

Market pages may show buyer-side, seller-side, ZIP and waterfront evidence leaders. These use the same agent profiles and transaction evidence but do not replace the overall GHREAA Score.

Waterfront signals require direct evidence

Lake and waterfront comparisons require an explicit specialty or named lake-area service signal, or multiple corroborating transaction records in designated lake-area ZIPs. Generic geographic proximity is not enough.