Relitix Agent Movement Index
How Fast Real Estate Agents Switch Brokerages
The Relitix Agent Movement Index—published exclusively by Relitix—provides a trendline for how fast experienced agents are switching brokerages, compared to prior years. Powering all Relitix software, the metric is a nationally-utilized benchmark, giving real estate brokers a clear picture for knowing when to recruit new talent and when to focus on retaining agents.
Latest Agent Movement Index (AMI)
Relitix’s AMI™ Reflects Accelerating Decline as Industry Exits Prime Recruiting Season
The latest update to the Relitix Agent Movement Index™ (AMI) through May 31, 2025, shows that agent movement continues to decelerate sharply as the industry exits the spring recruiting window. Despite May traditionally being a strong month for agent switching…
Relitix’s Agent Movement Index™ Reports Continued Subdued Mobility Through April 2025,…
Relitix’s latest Agent Movement Index™ (AMI) through April 30, 2025, underscores continued caution in agent mobility within the real estate brokerage industry. While April showed an expected seasonal uptick from March, it fell significantly short of historical norms for this…
Relitix’s AMI™ Reflects Muted March Mobility Amidst Continued Market Caution
Relitix’s latest release of the Agent Movement Index™ (AMI) through March 31, 2025, indicates a continuation of the cautious environment shaping agent mobility trends in the real estate brokerage industry. While March typically stands out as the peak month for…
What is the Agent Movement Index (AMI)?
The Agent Movement Index (AMI), published by Relitix since 2017, is a robust, industry-standard metric that tracks agent movement dynamics using extensive national data from major MLS systems. It is released monthly and includes both raw monthly figures and seasonally adjusted data to provide a transparent view of underlying trends. Trends in the relative movement of experienced real estate agents between brokerages are an important strategic consideration for brokerage and franchise leaders.
The relative amount of movement fluctuates over time on a seasonal and long-term basis. To capture these trends and report them to the industry, Relitix is proud to introduce its Agent Movement Index™. The AMI is published monthly and features monthly and seasonally adjusted, and 12-trailing-month values. The index is calculated using national-level data from a large sample of the nation’s most prominent MLS systems.
Why should real estate brokerages pay attention to this metric?
The Relitix Agent Movement Index acts as a real estate industry weather forecast, signaling when agents are most likely to be on the move. When the index is high, it’s a sunny day for recruiting—agents are actively looking for new opportunities, making it the perfect time for brokers to aggressively seek new talent. Conversely, a low index indicates a calm, cloudy day where agents are staying put. During these times, it’s best for brokers to shift their focus from recruiting to strengthening their current team by making sure their agents are happy and retained. Ultimately, a declining index is a clear signal that agent retention should become the top priority.
The science behind the AMI
The agent movement reflects the relative mobility of experienced agents between brokerages. The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. To be counted, the agent must be a member of one of the analyzed MLSs and change to a substantially different office name at a different address. M&A-driven activity and reflags are excluded, as are new agents and agents who leave real estate.
Efforts are made to exclude out-of-market agents and those which are MLS system artifacts. The number of agents changing offices is divided by the number of agents active in the past 12 months in the analyzed market areas. This percentage is normalized to reflect a value of 100 at the level of movement in January 2016 (0.7313%). The seasonally adjusted value divides the monthly result by the average of the same month in prior years. Analyzed MLSs represent over 800,000 members.
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