Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® was founded by Richard A. Smith as Richard Smith Company on July 1, 1970, in College Station, Texas.

On August 20, 2007, the company acquired Coldwell Banker JME Realty, headquartered in Pensacola, Florida. This company operated 20 residential and two commercial offices in the Florida panhandle and the Gulf coast areas of Alabama and Mississippi. In the first quarter of 2008, Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® purchased several offices in the Panama City, Florida area from NRT and Coldwell Banker Coastal Properties in Charleston, South Carolina.

CBUnited is Located throughout central, southeast and northeast Texas; the Gulf Coast regions of Alabama and Mississippi; the Florida panhandle; and North and South Carolina. All offices are managed by a Vice President - Branch Manager with a wealth of experience in residential real estate sales. Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® is the #1 company in the Coldwell Banker network of independently owned affiliates as measured in transaction sides.

According to "REAL Trends®" a leading industry trade publication, the company, in 2007, was ranked #5 nationally among all real estate companies in transaction sides and #9 nationally among all real estate companies in sales volume. The “REAL Trends®” report is a compilation of nationwide studies of leading real estate companies that represent a comprehensive collection of data assembled on the leaders of the residential brokerage industry.

Coldwell Banker United, Realtors® currently operates 77 residential branch offices and three commercial branch offices with a sales force of over 2,400 sales associates and over 450 employees. The company closed 27,953 transaction sides in 2007 with a sales volume of over $6.1 billion.

The company is a principal broker with Cartus Mobility, a company which provides relocation services to dozens of the nation's top corporations and has the largest market share of any relocation company.