For organizations
A no-cost home-buying and relocation benefit your people will actually use
When your employees, members or alumni buy or sell a home with a vetted partner agent from our national network, 20% of the agent's commission comes back to them as cash back, usually as a credit on their closing statement.
Subject to lender approval and state law; not available in every state (see disclosures).
Sending this to legal or finance? How the partnership works
- Cost to your organization
- $0
- No setup fee, subscription or per-person charge, and nothing runs through payroll.
- Through your organization
- 20%
- Twice the 10% they'd receive on their own
- Example cash back for one person
- $3,000
- A $500,000 home at a 3% commission ($15,000). Illustrative; commissions are negotiable.
Real money on one of the biggest financial moves of their lives
Examples at a 3% commission
- Home price
- $250,000
- Commission
- $7,500
- Through your organization (20%)
- $1,500
- On their own (10%)
- $750
- Home price
- $750,000
- Commission
- $22,500
- Through your organization (20%)
- $4,500
- On their own (10%)
- $2,250
- Home price
- $1,000,000
- Commission
- $30,000
- Through your organization (20%)
- $6,000
- On their own (10%)
- $3,000
- Home price
- Sell and buy at $500,000
- Commission
- $15,000 per side
- Through your organization (20%)
- $6,000
- On their own (10%)
- $3,000
Illustrative. Cash back is a share of the commission the agent is actually paid on each side, and commissions are negotiable.
Where it helps
- Recruiting. A benefit with a dollar figure attached: a new hire who moves for the job gets cash back on the home they buy.
- Relocations. For moves your relocation policy doesn’t manage, such as lump-sum packages, new hires and later moves, your people get a partner agent where they’re selling and where they’re buying, and cash back on each side. Moves your relocation company manages stay with it.
- Retention. First homes, growing families, downsizing, moving closer to work: real help at a stressful moment, years into someone’s tenure.
- Financial wellness. Cash back can lower closing costs or buy down a mortgage rate, subject to lender approval.
- Member value. For associations and alumni groups: a member benefit with no cost and no dues impact.
No cost, and about an hour of your team's time
Who pays for it
- Cash back is funded from the referral fee a partner agent's brokerage owes Pointe Advantage when a transaction closes.
- Your organization receives no payment, fee or other compensation. Federal and state real estate laws restrict payments for referring real estate business, so no money flows to your organization.
What your team does
- A 20-minute briefing and a short partnership agreement.
- Send us your email domain. We never ask for an employee list, and nothing connects to your HR or payroll systems.
- Send one announcement. We write it for you, so it takes about 10 minutes.
- After that, people register on their own. Each person's partner agent reaches out within 24 hours of the introduction.
The fine print
- People register before they contact an agent.
- Cash back may also be unavailable where a reduced commission or none is paid, such as some new construction, For Sale by Owner and iBuyer sales.
- Participation is voluntary for your people.
See the benefit working, person by person
Your organization portal
- Everyone who registers and where each move stands, with program totals and CSV exports for your own reporting
- Automatic approval for people on your email domains, a notification for each registration, and the ability to remove anyone who isn't one of your people
- A registration page branded for your organization, available on request
- Escalations, colleague invitations and notes, available on request
- Rules for your program, such as price caps and disclosures, available on request
- A named contact at Pointe Advantage
What your organization sees
For each person: their name and contact details, whether they're buying or selling, where they live now and the area they're moving to, their timeline and price range, their progress and expected closing date, their partner agent's name, updates Pointe Advantage and their partner agent share with you, and, once recorded, their home's purchase or sale price and the amount and status of their cash back. You never see their agent's commission, any fee, their loan, credit or income details, or their conversations with their agent. People are told the same list before they register.
Oversight on every file
- We identify partner agents in the markets your people are moving to and confirm each one's license status and production.
- We introduce each person to a partner agent who works their market. We aren't tied to any franchise.
- We stay on every file from registration to closing. Partner-agent performance data informs our introductions, and we audit assignments every quarter.
- Anyone can ask us for a different partner agent at any time.
Participating agents remain independently licensed real estate professionals operating under their respective brokerages.
Who you’ll work with
Jacob Davis, founder and Principal Associate Broker of Pointe Advantage LLC, licensed in Michigan since 2015. He ran the relocation and referral division of one of Michigan’s largest brokerages, where national relocation companies called him when a transferring employee needed an agent.
See it in a 20-minute briefing
We'll show you what your people get, what your team does and what you'll see in your portal. No cost and no obligation.
Questions first? Read the HR FAQ