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The largest brokerage office in Calgary is Urban Realty with 364 agents on its roster, out of 2,550 agents across 29 offices we track in the city. Size tells you which rooms are busy, not which one is right for you.
Nobody publishes this, so we counted it. Every office below is read from the brokerage's own public directory and re-read every week, so the numbers move when the rosters do. Updated 2026-10-11.
Brokerage offices in Calgary, by how many agents actually work there
| # | Office | Agents | Share of city |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urban Realty | 364 | 14.3% |
| 2 | Real Estate Professionals Inc | 326 | 12.8% |
| 3 | CENTURY 21 Bravo Realty | 227 | 8.9% |
| 4 | CENTURY 21 Bamber Realty Ltd. | 205 | 8% |
| 5 | REMAX First | 186 | 7.3% |
| 6 | Royal LePage Benchmark | 165 | 6.5% |
| 7 | REMAX House of Real Estate | 156 | 6.1% |
| 8 | REMAX Innovations | 112 | 4.4% |
| 9 | REMAX Real Estate (Mountain View) | 109 | 4.3% |
| 10 | REMAX Realty Professionals | 107 | 4.2% |
| 11 | Royal LePage Metro | 106 | 4.2% |
| 12 | REMAX Complete Realty | 97 | 3.8% |
Full ranking for the city, including the smaller offices, is on the Calgary Brokerage Index page.
What the agent count actually tells you
It is the one fact about a brokerage you can check from the outside, and it is the one nobody will quote you on a recruiting call. It is not a measure of quality and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it reliably tells you is which situation you would be joining.
A big office usually means a training program that exists, floor time and in-house referrals to compete for, an administrator who knows the paperwork, and a name a seller has heard of. It also means you are one of 364 people in Calgary with that same card, and the good leads have a queue.
A small office usually means the broker of record actually knows your name and answers the phone, a bigger share of what you bring in, and room to build something that is yours. It also means less to lean on in your first year, which is the year most licences quietly lapse.
In Calgary the top three offices hold 36% of the tracked agents, so no single brokerage dominates. That usually means more real choice on split and desk fees, because no office can assume you have nowhere else to go.
The questions the count cannot answer
Ask every office on this list the same four things and the differences show up fast: what the split is and when it caps, what comes out of your pocket monthly whether you sell or not, where leads come from and who gets them first, and who trains you in the first ninety days. Then ask for two agents who joined in the last year and call them.
The list above tells you who to ask. It is deliberately every office we can measure in Calgary, not a shortlist somebody paid to be on. We do not take money from brokerages and no office can buy a position here.
Cite this data
“Urban Realty is the largest brokerage office in Calgary with 364 agents, of 2,550 across 29 offices.” — AgentRoster Canadian Brokerage Index, agentroster.ca, 2026-10-11.
Working the other side of this market? Every Calgary agent we hold, with a verified email — 2,550 of them, filterable to brokers, top producers or agents who own a website.
How we count, and what we deliberately do not count, is written up in the Index methodology. Counts come from published office rosters, so an office whose directory lags behind reads low. If a number looks wrong, tell us and we will check it against the next scan.