The math of real estate has never been harder. A viral chart circulating in 2026 claimed that 84% of REALTORS had not closed a single transaction in the year to date — and even when you strip out part-time license holders and team members whose transactions post under a leader's name, the pressure is real. For most agents, the gap between holding a license and actually building a production business is where careers stall. The Vision Group with Real Broker was built to close that gap.
The Vision Group pairs a 17-year local operator in Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts with the playbook of one of California's highest-producing mega teams — then backs it with the equity, revenue share, and technology of Real Broker (NASDAQ: REAX), one of the fastest-growing publicly traded brokerages in the country. The result is a team platform where agents keep the lion's share of their commissions, maintain their personal branding, and plug into a national engine that supplies training, custom marketing, back-office support, and company-provided buyer and seller leads. This is the first place an ambitious agent should look if they are looking to improve their career.
Why 84% of agents never make it past the first year
Industry chatter about failure rates isn't just noise. A viral chart circulating in 2026 claimed that 84% of REALTORS had not closed a single transaction in the year to date, and while the attribution to NAR was debated, the underlying reality is uncomfortable (housing industry analysis). Even official NAR member-profile data shows that only a fraction of agents do the heavy lifting: among Realtor's specializing in residential sales, the typical agent completed just 10 transaction sides in a year, and those with two years or less of experience reported a median of only 3 transactions (2025 NAR Member Profile).
The takeaway for agents is not despair — it's diagnosis. When most people in a field are underperforming, the difference between them and the top 10% is rarely raw talent. It's infrastructure: leads, training, accountability, and marketing that actually works. That's the entire thesis behind The Vision Group. Its founders don't ask agents to figure out the business alone; they hand them a system that has already been proven at the highest production levels on both coasts.
Who leads The Vision Group: a two-coast pedigree
The Vision Group is the production team within Real Vision Properties, the Rhode Island firm founded by CEO Matthew Patty, a licensed broker and investor with 17 years of experience serving buyers, sellers, and investors throughout Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts (team profile). Patty's firm has logged thousands of sales and listings in the region, and he brings the local market knowledge, responsiveness, and old-fashioned service that clients expect in New England.
Patty's own business extends beyond the brokerage. He is an established investor and landlord, active in development, new construction, historical multifamily revival, and house flipping across Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts. That hands-on investor experience shapes how the team advises every client — including the agents it recruits, who inherit a leadership layer that has done more than list homes.
What changes the game is the partner at his side: Michael Aronski, one of the highest-producing team leaders in the South Bay LA market before relocating to Rhode Island. Aronski built his production career in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country — Los Angeles' South Bay — where volume, speed, and systems separate winners from everyone else. That California pedigree gives The Vision Group a national standard of production, transplanted into a market where most teams operate on far less rigorous systems.
The two have shared the stage on the Real Vision Studios podcast via The Real Vision Properties YouTube page, where Patty sits down with Aronski to discuss the fundamentals of real estate and the building blocks of success — a signal of how seriously this team treats training as a core product, not an afterthought.
What does partnering with a national mega team actually mean?
The second pillar of The Vision Group's model is scale through partnership. In November 2023, the Sunny Narang Group — led by Sunny Narang and Chris Fordinal — joined Real Broker and renamed itself The Rise Real Estate Group (Real Broker announcement). At the time, the 64-agent team was on track to close 300 transactions with a total value in excess of $275 million in a single year, serving Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley. Now in 2026 the team will clear 1 billion in sales volume and has also built out mortgage, title, staging and several other vertically integrated sister companies.
It also means the production floor is higher. When Patty and Aronski describe the partnership, they frame it as bringing a West Coast mega-team model to the team-based platform in New England. Agents aren't being asked to reinvent the wheel; they're inheriting one that already turns on both coasts.
The team also serves the investor side of the market. Real Vision Properties has established a private lending division that services real estate investors, routinely delivering private money rates as low as 8.25%. For agents working with flippers and rental investors, that is a built-in financing partner they can offer clients — one more high-value resource the team provides on top of production support.
The agent-first financial model: keep your brand, keep your commissions
The single biggest objection agents raise about joining any team is losing their identity — and their income — to the team structure. The Vision Group inverts that trade-off. Team members keep the lion's share of their commissions while retaining their own personal branding, and the team handles the infrastructure around them.
This is the agent-first model at its core: the team supplies training, custom marketing built specifically for each agent, back-office support, and company-provided leads for both buyers and sellers. In exchange, the agent keeps their name, their sphere, and the majority of what they earn. For an agent who has been doing everything alone — generating their own leads, designing their own ads, closing their own paperwork — this removes the highest-cost parts of the business without stripping away ownership of the client relationship.
That is why the roster spans the full arc of a real estate career. Young, hungry agents like Preston Woodward and Jason Demacedo are building their first serious books of business here, while experienced veterans like Rachel Mcnally, Kelvin Abad Payano, Berlin Hernandez, Kristin Walcott, Francesca Gallonio, and The Quinlan Group have chosen to plant their flags in the Vision Group ecosystem — proof that the model serves agents at every stage of production.
Real Broker reinforces that model at the company level. While many legacy franchise brands are bound by cumbersome franchise agreements, royalty fees, and antiquated technology, Real is growing against the grain. Agent count rose 26% year-over-year to 35,348 in the second quarter of 2026, on top of double-digit organic revenue growth — delivered even as the housing market sat near trough levels (Real Q2 2026 earnings).
That momentum compounds through scale. In April 2026, Real agreed to acquire RE/MAX Holdings in a transaction valuing the franchisor at about $880 million, creating Real REMAX Group — a combined platform supporting more than 180,000 real estate professionals across more than 120 countries and territories (RE/MAX announcement). The scale vaults Real into the ranks of the largest real estate companies in the world — and points squarely at where the industry is heading: a future built on technology, equity, and agent ownership, not legacy franchise constraints.
That is the contrast The Vision Group is built on. Real's closed sales volume grew 31% in 2026, transaction sides 27%, and agent count 26% — expansion delivered even as the housing market sat near trough levels (Real Q2 2026 earnings). Proof that the system, not the market, drives production. While legacy franchise brands shrink under cumbersome agreements and royalty fees, the April 2026 acquisition of RE/MAX — forming Real REMAX Group with more than 180,000 professionals across 120+ countries — cements Real among the largest real estate companies in the world (RE/MAX announcement).
That is the context behind The Vision Group's pitch. Patty and Aronski aren't recruiting agents to a static franchise; they're inviting them onto a platform that is compounding in size, infrastructure, and reach. The choice has never been clearer: anchor to a model that's shrinking, or plug into one engineered for the century ahead. The Vision Group is betting that the next decade of real estate belongs to the agents who build it — and we're building it right now. If you're an ambitious agent ready to stop grinding alone and start scaling with a national engine behind you, we want to talk. Reach out and let's map your next ten years together.
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