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At Vince Young Realty, a lease is charged exactly like a sale: no transaction fee, a 90/10 split, and one flat $250 monthly fee that does not change with your deal count. Close one lease or forty, the per-deal charge is $0.
For agents who lease, this is the single most important line in a brokerage agreement. Lease checks are small, and a flat fee per deal takes a large share of a small number. Many agreements treat leases as an afterthought. Ours treats them as real business.
Say you place a tenant in a home renting for a hypothetical $2,400 a month, and your side of the commission is $1,200. Lease commissions are negotiable in Texas and vary by listing; this is an illustration.
On one lease the gap looks modest. Leasing agents do not close one lease.
Now scale it. A hypothetical leasing agent closes 25 leases a year at $1,200 each, $30,000 gross.
Double the volume to 50 leases, $60,000 gross, and you keep $51,000 here. The 70/30 model leaves $42,000, and a $350 per-deal fee would cost $17,500. The more leases you close, the wider that gap gets, because our cost per lease stays at 10% with nothing fixed on top. If you split your time between leases and sales, see how no transaction fees play out across both.
Leasing is a steady line of business across Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, and many rentals are marketed through the ACTRIS MLS alongside homes for sale. Lease activity typically picks up in late spring and summer, when many leases turn over.
Tenants also become buyers. A renter you place this year can be a buyer in a few years, and the relationship you keep is what brings them back. That is where your tools matter:
Vince Young Realty reports $490M+ total sales, and the terms above apply to every lease you close.
Bring a count of the leases and sales you closed last year and we will show you what you would have kept here, deal by deal, with no per-deal charge on any of them. For a broader look at leasing-focused careers, read the best brokerage for Austin leasing agents. Or skip ahead and apply on our join page, or call (512) 785-7489.
A lease transaction fee is a flat dollar charge a brokerage takes each time an agent closes a lease, separate from the commission split. Under some models it is the same amount charged on a sale, even though lease commissions are usually far smaller. That makes it one of the most expensive terms in an agreement for leasing agents. Vince Young Realty charges no transaction fee on leases; the brokerage keeps 10% of the lease commission and charges a flat $250 per month.
Ten percent of the commission check, and nothing per deal. On a hypothetical $1,000 lease commission, the brokerage keeps $100 and you keep $900. The only other core cost is the flat $250 monthly fee, which stays the same whether you close zero leases that month or ten. Ask us for the complete fee schedule on a call if you want every line in writing before you decide.
Austin lease activity typically builds in late spring and runs heavy through summer, when many leases turn over. Many leasing agents prefer to change brokerages in the fall or winter, when fewer applications and move-ins are in progress. Any pending lease under your current broker stays with that broker under the existing agreements. The sponsorship change runs through TREC; check trec.texas.gov for current steps and timing.
For most leasing agents, yes, because lease checks are small. On a hypothetical $1,200 lease commission, 90/10 leaves you $1,080, while 100% with a $350 per-deal fee leaves $850. The per-deal model only comes out ahead once a single check is larger than $3,500, since 10% of $3,500 equals the $350 fee. Many lease commissions fall below that, although commission amounts are negotiable and vary by deal.
In Texas, a sales agent's compensation is paid through the sponsoring broker, who then pays the agent under the independent contractor agreement. At Vince Young Realty, a lease commission is split 90/10 with no transaction fee deducted. The lease listing agreement and any buyer or tenant representation agreement govern who pays the commission and when. Ask us on a call how we handle lease paperwork and payout timing, and review our agreement before you sign.
The minimum fee. Some models charge a percentage on sales but a flat minimum on every deal, which quietly becomes a large percentage of a small lease check. Another is a lease-specific admin or processing fee listed apart from the main fee schedule. Read every fee line in the agreement and ask directly whether leases are treated differently from sales. At Vince Young Realty, they are not: 90/10 and no transaction fee on both.
Many are. The ACTRIS MLS, used through the Austin Board of REALTORS, carries lease listings alongside homes for sale across Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, which is one reason leasing is part of so many Central Texas agents' business. Lease prices in the MLS are shown as monthly rent. At Vince Young Realty, MLS listings feed the IDX search on your website and the saved-search alerts your clients receive.
Suppose you close 18 leases at a hypothetical $1,100 commission each and 5 sales at $11,000 each. That is $19,800 plus $55,000, or $74,800 gross. At Vince Young Realty the 10% share is $7,480 and the monthly fees are $3,000, so you keep $64,320. Transaction fees: $0. At an illustrative $350 per deal, those 23 closings would have cost $8,050 in per-deal fees alone.
Yes. At Vince Young Realty your clients get a branded app experience with home search, saved searches and new-listing alerts, and the saved-search alerts are automated. For a renter, that means matching listings reach them quickly and under your name, which matters when good rentals do not sit long. The same app keeps you in front of them later, when they are ready to stop renting and start shopping for a home to buy.
Because the terms hold up at high deal counts: no transaction fees on leases or sales, a 90/10 split, and a flat $250 per month. You also get a custom website with IDX search and lead capture, free yard signs, listing print, agent and buyer apps, an AI CRM with automated saved-search alerts, and access to health and private club benefits (contact us for details). Fill out the form at vinceyoungrealty.com/join-us or call (512) 785-7489.
90/10 split, $250 a month, no transaction fees on sales or leases. Nothing goes to your current brokerage.