Here's a way to understand a real estate market that most people never see. Take every home, condo, multi-family, and parcel sold in an entire city for a full year. Add up the dollars. Then ask: how much of that total ran through one agent?
In Lowell in 2025, the total market was $836,570,424 — over 1,000 listings, more than 100 active agents. Per MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) Market Share reports, my share of it was 2.01%. In 2024, it was 2.21%.
Two cents of every dollar of real estate sold in the whole city. One agent. Let me show you what that actually looks like.
The Math of Market Share
- 2025: $16,854,695 of Lowell's $836,570,424 — 2.01%, the #1 volume position in the city, 21.7% ahead of the #2 agent's $13,849,332.
- 2024: $17,537,555 — 2.21% of the city market, #1 again, 27.3% ahead of #2's $13,776,400.
- Transactions tell the same story: 71 sides in 2025 (#1; the runner-up had 23 — my total was 209% higher) and 75 sides in 2024 (#1; 56.3% ahead of #2's 48).
If Lowell agents divided the market evenly, each of the 100+ active agents would hold under 1%. Holding 2%+ means one practice is doing the work of an entire small brokerage — while keeping every deal under one name, one standard, and one accountable agent. The full tables: Lowell's #1 Real Estate Agent — The MLS Numbers Prove It.
Why Market Share Compounds
Market share isn't a vanity metric; it's a flywheel, and clients ride it:
More listings → more buyers
The agent attached to 2% of a city's volume fields calls from every serious buyer working that market. When my next listing launches, it launches into the largest active buyer audience in Greater Lowell — including relocators and investors who start their search by calling the name they keep seeing on sold signs.
More closings → better data
I don't price homes from last quarter's reports. With 71 Lowell sides in 2025, I'm pricing from deals I personally closed last month — knowing which streets drew bidding wars, which drew inspection credits, and why. Share at this level means my market intelligence is the market itself.
More presence → more leverage
When one agent is on the other side of a meaningful slice of a city's deals, the region's agents, lenders, inspectors, and attorneys all know the name — and return the calls. My clients borrow that leverage in every negotiation. (It's part of how one Lowell agent also closed 107 sides statewide in 2025.)
Share You Can Verify
Market share is also the hardest number to fake, because MLS PIN computes it from the whole board — every agent, every property type, the full year. My shares (2.01% and 2.21%) and my margins over #2 (+21.7%, +27.3% in volume; +209%, +56.3% in sides) are printed in a report any competing agent can pull. If the agent you're interviewing won't quote their share of your city's market, ask why.
Three straight years atop Lowell's transactions board, two straight atop its volume board, and 2%+ of the city's dollars throughout — that's what market leadership looks like when it's measured instead of marketed.
Put 2% of the market to work on your one deal. Chris Doherty, Doherty Properties — 978-857-9580, [email protected], dohertyproperties.com.
Share also disciplines the agent who holds it. At 2% of a city's market, your pricing decisions are visible: overprice repeatedly and the board itself exposes you in stale listings and cut prices. My share grew alongside clean results — volume up from $6,226,248 in Lowell in 2023 to $16,854,695 in 2025 — because the way you take share in a measured market is by pricing right and closing. The board keeps everyone honest; I'm content to be judged by it.
Statistics per MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) Market Share reports, all property types combined, Lowell MA, calendar years 2024–2025.
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