30 answers, before the call.

You keep 90% of the commission on every transaction and Local Market keeps 10%. That includes your own clients and every deal the platform finds you.

No. The split stays 90/10 for every deal, every year.

Local Market is paid through its 10%. Anything else you would pay is written into the independent contractor agreement, which we go through line by line before you sign.

Your own E&O insurance and the marketing you send: letters, postage, printing and ads. The desk prepares and sends them; you decide how many.

Through escrow, on a commission demand signed by the broker. You don’t wait on an office to cut a check.

No. A lead the desk finds in your city is your lead, split 90/10 like any other deal.

They close at your current brokerage. Moving doesn’t disturb a deal in progress.

A listing agreement is between your seller and your current brokerage, so it moves with your broker’s release and your seller’s agreement. We prepare the paperwork; the seller decides.

No. The change of responsible broker is filed with the California DRE online, and Local Market certifies it. Your license number stays the same.

Your desk is live the morning after you sign. Your license moves the day the broker certifies it in DRE eLicensing, and your first outreach goes out on day one. See the schedule.

Yes. Agents carry their own E&O insurance and send the certificate when they sign.

Your listings go with you, subject to your sellers’ choice, and your city opens for another agent.

Each city has one Local Market agent. While you hold it, no other Local Market agent works its leads. Exclusivity is a term of the independent contractor agreement.

Search for it on Cities. Open cities can be reserved; held cities link to the agent’s live market site.

Ask Tim on the call. It depends on the cities and on whether you already work both.

Very large cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento may be split into neighborhoods. We settle that on the call.

A reason to reach out to someone: an expired listing, a rental owner, a lot a builder would buy, a probate filing, a neighbor of a sale. See Lead sources.

County public records, licensed data providers and the MLS, loaded for your city: parcels, owners on record, sales history and listings.

The desk drafts them from tested campaigns, on your letterhead and in your name. You approve before anything goes.

No. You choose which run in your city and how often.

Yes. Build your city’s desk: real addresses in your city, invented people, and nothing you click sends anything.

Yes. The Docket, the Scoreboard, calls and approvals all work on a phone.

Yes. A Local Market agent can become a Lead Agent and add Team Agents in their city. See Teams.

Local Market keeps 10% of every team deal. The Lead Agent sets a team fee out of the remaining 90% in a signed Team Schedule, and escrow pays every share.

Yes: “[Surname] Team, powered by Local Market”, with Local Market shown as prominently as the team name, as California’s team-name rules require.

Local Market Brokerage, Inc. is the responsible broker. Tim McMullen (CA DRE #02016832) is its broker and designated officer.

No. Agents are independent contractors under a written agreement, paid by commission, as California law allows for real estate licensees.

The broker. Every transaction is reviewed before close, as California law requires of a responsible broker.

We usually work with agents who closed $10 million or more in the last year. If you’ve done it before and want to get back there, book a call anyway.

No. It’s arithmetic on the numbers you enter. Nothing on this site is a representation of earnings.