A day in the life of Ben Caballero, the top US real-estate broker - Business Insider

Ben Caballero is the top real-estate broker in the US.He sold $2.2 billion worth of homes in 2018.Caballero lives in Frisco, Texas, and oversees a team of more than 22 people, some of whom work remotely and some of whom work from the office in Addison, Texas.He wakes up at 5:00 a.m., watches the news with his dog, spends the day in client presentations and meetings with his team, and works out three times a week with his personal trainer.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Ben Caballero is the top real-estate broker in the US, according to REAL Trends, a residential brokerage industry publication. He sold $2.2 billion worth of homes in 2018.The Texas-based broker has been ranked as the top real-estate agent for nearly a decade by REAL Trends for both total sales and number of transactions. In 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, he sold 5,793 homes — an average of 111 homes a week.He only sells new-construction residential properties and he works with volume builders only — or companies that build several hundred homes a year, sometimes up to 3,000.Caballero created an online platform, HomesUSA, exclusively for volume home builders to track these hundreds of homes. The platform streamlines the process of creating a listing, tracking the progress of a house's construction, and updating the listing when photography is added and when the home is complete. Caballero manages listings for more than 60 builders in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio areas.He lives in Frisco, Texas, with his fiancée, Linda, and his dog, Sammy. Caballero has a son and a daughter.Here's a look at a typical day for Caballero.