Ben Caballero

Ben Caballero is an American entrepreneur and real estate agent, and the founder and CEO of HomesUSA.com, a Dallas-based real estate brokerage that serves as the exclusive listing agent for production homebuilders in Texas. He holds three Guinness World Records titles for the most annual home sale transactions through MLS by an individual sell-side real estate agent.

In 2015, he became the first individual real estate agent to exceed US$1 billion in annual home sales. He surpassed $3 billion in 2022. In a 2025 profile, Commercial Observer reported his cumulative career transaction volume at approximately $27 billion.

Early life and military service Caballero is a second-generation Cuban American from Tampa, Florida, where both of his parents were real estate brokers. Unlike traditional real estate agents, Caballero does not represent buyers or individual home sellers and works only on the sell side; he told Inman in 2025, "We don't have any agents helping buyers or listing consumer homes." His brokerage charges builders a flat fee per closing rather than a percentage commission. Each listing is recorded under his individual agent license rather than a team, a structure that The Real Deal and The Hustle have identified as central to his ranking performance. He became the first individual real estate agent to exceed $1 billion in annual home sales in 2015. His production declined in 2021 to approximately $1.98 billion across 4,671 sales before rebounding to $3.06 billion in 2022, when he became the first individual agent to exceed $3 billion in a single year. He broke his own record in 2018 with 5,801 sales totaling $2.27 billion, Dallas Innovates reported in 2024 that the platform uses strategic automation and generative AI to help create listings and manage listing workflows.

Recognition Caballero was named Most Innovative Real Estate Agent by Inman News in 2013, was a finalist for the award in 2016 and 2018, and was named an Inman industry influencer in 2017. In 2024, he was named a Real Estate Newsmaker in the Achievers category by RISMedia, and HomesUSA.com was named to the HousingWire Tech100 Real Estate list, which recognizes technology organizations in the housing industry.