Your name out front. Our muscle behind it.

Build Your Name.Not Ours.

A brokerage built for agents who want their business to feel like their own — not a franchise, not a downline, not a "team" they're forced to belong to.

No Franchise Fees · One Owner Who Answers · 28173 Specialists

Real splits. Real tools. Real support.

Three things most brokerages promise. One that actually delivers.

90/10

Honest Splits

You keep 90% on self-sourced business. No caps — your split applies to all GCI. No franchise royalty. No monthly fees. No desk fees. Pay only when you close.

$400

Tools Included

Sierra Interactive CRM, Sierra School, AI Transaction Manager, CMA Generator. Saves the ~$400/month other brokerages charge agents to bring their own.

250

Marketing Done For You

Every closing comes with branded Just Sold postcards, door hangers, and thank-you cards — plus a Pre-Listing Power Pack on every listing. Your face. Your name. Your phone number. Not URE's.

Your face. Your name. Your contact info.

Every URE marketing piece is branded to YOU — not URE. Your headshot, your phone number, your story in front of the buyers in your market.

URE branded marketing kit — For Sale yard sign, Open House sign, Just Listed and Just Sold door hangers, postcards (front and back), property brochures, rack cards, 8.5×11 flyer, and the Pre-Listing Power Pack box, all branded with the agent's name and contact info
Most brokerages hand you a login and wish you luck. URE runs its own North Carolina print company — your signs, postcards, and mailers come straight from our press, branded to you, and you can order more at a discount any time. We put YOU in front of the buyers in your market — on every closing.

AI-powered social. Every listing. Every stage.

URE's AI social campaign builder — integrated with Sierra Interactive — drafts posts for every stage of your listing. Coming Soon. Just Listed. Just Sold. Your face, your name, your buyers engaging.

Pick the plan that fits how you work.

No tier hierarchy stunts. No quotas. Two plans, real splits, no caps.

90/10
Self-Sourced
Split90% to you
Per Deal10% split + $199
Annual CapNone
Best FitSOI producers
85/15
Pond + Marketing Plus
Split85% to you
Per Deal15% split + $199
Annual CapNone
Best FitLead-flow support

$199 flat Broker Admin Fee (BAF) per deal — all-in, no separate E&O (covers file storage and compliance). No caps: your split applies to all GCI. Transaction Coordinator services are separate.

Tools you'd pay $400/month for elsewhere.

Included. Not "available as an add-on." Not "negotiated separately." Just included.

1

Transaction Manager

Drop the OTP PDF. Get a 35-task NC-specific checklist with deadlines pre-filled. 7 ready-to-send deal-stage emails. Daily reminders. Saves $300-400/deal vs. hiring a human TC.

2

CMA Generator

Drop a Canopy MLS Quick CMA PDF. Out comes a polished multi-page CMA branded with your name and contact info. 60-second turnaround.

3

Sierra Interactive

Full CRM + branded IDX website. Lead capture, drip campaigns, follow-up automation. Other brokerages: agents pay $200-400/month themselves.

4

Sierra School

Hundreds of self-paced video trainings. Updated regularly. Available 24/7 from any device. Included free.

And then there's The Pond.

Our 14,000+ buyer database in 28173. Your new listing goes in front of buyers already actively looking here — not a generic MLS feed.

What URE isn't.

Some brokerages won't tell you what they leave out. Here's what URE deliberately doesn't have — and why.

NOFranchise Royalty Fees. You pay URE. URE doesn't pay a national brand.
NOMLM Downline Structure. Build your business. Not a pyramid.
NOMandatory Floor Time. You're a professional, not a clerk.
NORequired Motivational Meetings. Your time is for clients.
NOMonthly Fees, No Desk Fees. Pay-per-deal only.
NOLicense-Hold Lock-In. Sell or leave. Clean exit, no hostage situation.
NOFranchise-Mandated Branding. Your name on the postcards.
NOHigh-Pressure Quotas or Tier Hierarchy Stunts. One owner, two simple plans, real splits. Year 1 is a grace year.
What we DO have? Everything you actually need. Nothing you don't.
David Upchurch, Owner and Lead Broker, Upchurch Real Estate
From David, Personally

Real estate is a marketing business.

The agents who win in any market are the ones whose name comes up first — at the dinner table, in the school pickup line, in the neighborhood group chat — when someone is ready to buy or sell.

For 20+ years in Waxhaw, Weddington, and Marvin, I've worked at exactly that — building my name into this market through deliberate marketing every single year. I want to be the first name buyers and sellers in 28173 think of when they're ready to move.

What I've built — the marketing presence in this footprint, the buyer database, the local relationships — that's yours to build on the day you join URE. Your name on every piece, my groundwork under your feet. You don't start from zero. You build your business on the foundation I've spent two decades creating, and you put YOUR name on top.

If that's the business you want — to build YOUR name into the first one buyers and sellers in your area think of — let's talk. No pitch, no pressure. Just a candid conversation.

— David Upchurch, Owner & Lead Broker

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