Our Story
In 1971, Jim Jackson founded the company, originally called Electronic Realty Associates, with the vision of utilizing the latest technology - then a fax machine - to provide the highest quality service. ERA Real Estate was founded on the premise of building a franchise system based on the principle of collaboration - the idea that by working together and helping one another, a stronger community of real estate professionals could be built. Each ERA office helps strengthen the communities where they work and practice real estate.
Our global community of real estate professionals combines local neighborhood experience with up-to-the-minute real estate resources to deliver the results home buyers and sellers need today. Buying and selling real estate is a process with many steps involved to complete a transaction. That's why we keep our approach as simple and straightforward as possible.
A leading residential real estate brokerage franchisor, ERA has approximately 2,300 franchise and company-owned offices and more than 41,000 independent sales associates located in 35 countries and territories.
Today, ERA Real Estate continues to be a pioneer in the industry by capitalizing on the power of the Internet to offer unique offerings to both sales associates and consumers.