Fort Worth · Texas
Real estate careers in Fort Worth
You are competing with 10,732 active licenses in Tarrant County. In June 2026, the strongest sales month of the year so far, 2,282 homes changed hands in the entire county. The market is healthy, but there are far more licenses than sales, so the brokerage you choose, and where its deals come from, matters. Both numbers are public, and both are below with their sources.
Written by the brokerage side of 6th Ave Homes, in Fort Worth, which recruits agents, so you should know that up front. Every figure below comes from the body that publishes it, and all of them are linked at the bottom. Checked 2026-09-24.
The two numbers
Agent licenses and home sales in Tarrant County
One comes from the state agency that issues the licenses. The other comes from the association that reports the sales. Both are free and public. The chart beside this divides one by the other.
Each mark is a transaction side, not an agent.
For every 100 active real estate licenses based in Tarrant County, the homes sold county-wide in June 2026 could have paid at most 43 transaction sides.
At most 43 paid sides.
A sale can pay two agents, one on each side, so 2,282 closings is at most 4,564 paid sides. It is a ceiling: some sales have the same agent on both sides, and builder-to-buyer and for-sale-by-owner sales pay no MLS agent at all.
The licenses
10,732
Active licenses with a Tarrant County address of record: 8,914 sales agents and 1,818 individual brokers. Counted from the Texas Real Estate Commission’s own roster, which TREC publishes as an open dataset and updates daily — last updated 2026-09-23, read 2026-09-24. It was counted two different ways, grouped and totalled, and both came back the same.
What it doesn’t count: people working in Fort Worth. TREC records where a licensee’s mail goes, not where they sell. Agents based in Dallas and Denton close here constantly, and Tarrant licensees work outside the county. If anything it undercounts the competition.
The sales
2,282
Homes sold across Tarrant County in June 2026 — 10.7% more than June 2025, at a median of $360,000, with 3.6 months of inventory and 45 days on market. From the Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS®’ own monthly report. The city of Fort Worth’s share of that was 1,067.
Why this month: it is the best month in the association’s 2026 reporting. We used the strongest month on purpose, so this is the best case. Any slower month looks worse.
Checked against every Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS® release from January through August 2026. One of them — May — prints 6,459 county sales, which is an error in the release itself: the city of Fort Worth alone was 1,057 that month and no other month of the year clears 2,282. June is the real high, and using the high is what makes the figure below a floor rather than a selective one.
2,282 sales, counted at two sides each, is 4,564 paid sides. Set against 10,732 active licenses, that is fewer than one transaction side for every two active licenses — in the strongest month of the year.
Run the same arithmetic across the whole year instead of the best month and it comes out at about four transaction sides a year for every active license — again at the ceiling, again assuming every sale pays two agents. That is the number to remember. It is a run-rate from the seven months of 2026 that have been published and reconciled, not a closed year.
This is a ratio, not a count of people. It doesn’t mean 43% of agents closed a deal. Neither dataset shows how deals are spread across agents, and we won’t guess. It does show the most work there could be per license, and that maximum is low. That’s worth knowing before you pick where to work.
How Tarrant compares
Tarrant County has one of the largest counts of real estate licenses in Texas.
The same TREC roster, the same night, grouped by county. Tarrant sits among the largest concentrations of license holders in Texas, alongside Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Travis. Here it is next to them, so you can see the scale.
- Harris 27,938
- Dallas 14,596
- Bexar 11,190
- Tarrant 10,732
- Travis 10,675
- Collin 9,845
Two things to read carefully. Tarrant and Travis are 57 licenses apart — half of one percent — so the order between them is too close to call. And 11,612 active licenses in this dataset carry no county at all, which is more than any county below the top three holds. This orders the counties TREC names; it is not a complete ranking of Texas.
June 2026, Tarrant County
10,732 licenses and at most 4,564 paid sides.
Seven agents, mid-laugh, on the day this was shot
Choosing a brokerage
Ask where the work comes from before you ask about the split.
A commission split is a share of work that already exists. In a county with 10,732 licenses competing for 4,564 possible sides in a good month, the work is the scarce part. A better split doesn’t help if there are no deals to split.
Here are three questions to ask any brokerage. All three have answers you can check.
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Question one
Where do this brokerage’s transactions actually come from?
Ask for the actual source, not just “we generate leads.” Often the answer is a lead-generation product that other agents pay for too. Some brokerages have a source of deals that isn’t the MLS at all. That is a real difference, and it’s worth asking about.
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Question two
Are you an MLS Participant, and when does my access start?
In North Texas your MLS access follows your broker rather than your association, so the answer decides whether you can work on day one or have to wait. It is worked through in detail on our Mansfield page, because Mansfield sits in three counties. Be careful with anyone who answers the first half and gets vague about the second.
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Question three
What did a new agent here close in their first year?
Ask for the actual number rather than the top producer’s. Against 10,732 licenses and 4,564 possible sides, an average is the only figure that means anything, and a brokerage that has the number will give it to you.
“But the market is growing”
“But Fort Worth is booming.” It is. Tarrant County sales in June 2026 were 10.7% more than June 2025, and the city’s were 5.2% more than June 2025. Growth doesn’t change the ratio. The 43 above was measured in that growing market, in its strongest month.
And one number not to over-read
5,609 Tarrant County sales agent licenses currently sit in TREC’s “expired less than six months” bucket, against 8,914 active ones. Don’t read that label literally. Checked again on October 14, 2026, the bucket held 5,970 records: most had expired more than a year earlier (the oldest in 1999), and only about one in ten in the previous six months. TREC does not publish why a license lapsed, so this is not a recent-lapse count and not a quit rate.
What we offer agents
How 6th Ave Homes helps agents win listings
6th Ave Homes is at 908 Bryan Ave, Fort Worth, and the brokerage sits inside a design-build company. Designers, drafters and builders are in-house. Here’s what that means for you: you walk into a listing appointment on a house that needs work and you can tell the seller what it would take, who would do it and roughly what it costs — in the room, that day. The next agent the seller interviews will probably say, “I can get you some quotes.” That’s how you win the listing.
It runs the other direction too. When one of your clients hires us for the construction or the design, there is a referral bonus in it for you — income that does not depend on a listing existing at all.
Our answers to the other two questions: Yes — 6th Ave Homes is an NTREIS MLS Participant, and your access starts as soon as you sign up. Our brokers are not agents, so they won’t take a lead from you to work themselves. And question three, the one about what a new agent here closed in their first year: we do not publish that number, and we are not going to put one on a page where you could not check it. Ask us in person and you will get it, along with who it was and what the year actually looked like.
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Common questions
Questions about real estate careers in Fort Worth
How many real estate agents are there in Fort Worth?
There is no published figure for the city of Fort Worth. What is published is the county: TREC's own license roster lists 8,914 active sales agents and 1,818 active individual brokers with a Tarrant County address — 10,732 active licenses, retrieved 2026-09-24 from a dataset TREC updates daily. That is an address of record, not a place of work: plenty of them work Dallas or Denton, and plenty of Dallas-based agents work Tarrant.
Is Fort Worth a good market to start a real estate career in?
It is growing, and it is crowded. Tarrant County sales in June 2026 were 10.7% more than June 2025, with 3.6 months of inventory, which is a healthy market. It is also among the largest concentrations of license holders in Texas, alongside Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Travis. So the market is healthy and the competition is heavy, so the brokerage you choose matters more here than it would in a market with fewer agents.
What should I ask a Fort Worth brokerage before I join?
Ask where the deals come from, and ask for specifics you can check. A commission split only matters once you have deals. Ask what a new agent's first six months actually look like, who else is chasing the same listings, and whether the brokerage has any source of deals besides the MLS every other agent is watching. If the answer is training and a CRM, those are tools for finding your own deals while competing with 10,732 other licenses.
Gaps in the public data
What we looked for and couldn’t find.
- What REALTOR® membership actually costs in Fort Worth. The Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS® publishes no dues figure — its join page is a contact form — and NTREIS publishes no public fee schedule. Checked both on 2026-09-24. No aggregator figure is used in their place.
- How many of those 10,732 licenses belong to someone actually working full time. TREC publishes license status, not activity, and the two are not the same thing.
- How many of June’s 2,282 Tarrant County sales were handled by an agent with a Tarrant County address. The two datasets are published by different bodies and do not join.
Aggregator sites quote a Fort Worth REALTOR® dues figure, but neither of the two organizations that would actually charge it publishes one, so ask them directly.
Sources, all read 2026-09-24
Start with the first one. It is the dataset the number at the top of this page came out of, it is free, and re-running the count takes about a minute.
- TREC — Broker and Sales Agent License Holder Information (updated daily)
- TREC — high value data sets
- Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS® — June 2026 housing report
- GFWAR — Fort Worth market reports
Related guides
- Getting a Texas license — what TREC requires, and what it costs.
- Changing brokerages in Texas — and how to keep the inactive gap short.
- Working part-time — what a license costs to keep if you barely use it.
- Working in Mansfield — three counties, four associations, one MLS.
- Working in Parker County — land, wells, and the forms that changed in July 2026.