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Measuring the Efficiency of Residential Real Estate Brokerage Firms

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  • Randy Anderson
  • Robert Fok
  • Leonard Zumpano
  • Harold Elder

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This article measures overall, allocative, technical, pure technical and scale efficiency levels for a sample of residential real estate brokerage firms using data envelopment analysis, a linear-programming technique. The results suggest that real estate brokerage firms operate inefficiently. Inefficiencies are primarily a function of suboptimal input allocations and the failure to operate at constant returns to scale rather than from poor input utilization. Regression analysis is employed to determine which firm and/or market characteristics affect efficiency levels. The results show that increasing firm size increases efficiency while choosing to franchise, adding an additional multiple listing service and increasing operating leverage decreases firm performance.

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  • Randy Anderson & Robert Fok & Leonard Zumpano & Harold Elder, 1998. "Measuring the Efficiency of Residential Real Estate Brokerage Firms," Journal of Real Estate Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 139-158, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjerxx:v:16:y:1998:i:2:p:139-158
    DOI: 10.1080/10835547.1998.12090946
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