1st Class Real Estate
Franchise Overview
1st Class Real Estate operates as a virtual real estate brokerage franchise, eliminating the need for a physical office and enabling franchisees and their agents to serve residential buyers and sellers entirely from a flexible, remote operating model.
Just the Facts
For most complete information, see Franchise Disclosure Documents
1st Class Real Estate FDDs and Analysis Reports
These 1st Class Real Estate FDDs, as filed, contain 23 sections of federally mandated disclosures such as franchisee obligations, franchisor litigation, and financial performance. FDD's are typically 100+ pages long and are critical to evaluate when researching a franchise. Multi-year analysis reports track how these disclosures change across consecutive FDD filings.
Available Documents
Instant download after purchaseMulti-Year Analysis Packages
Year-over-year comparison of consecutive filings. Every figure cited to its filing, Item, and PDF page. Source FDDs included.
1st Class Real Estate 5-Year FDD Analysis Package (FY2021–FY2025)
Analysis report (21 pages) • 4 year-over-year transitions • 5 source FDDs (2022–2026 filings) included
What's insideSee a full sample report (PDF)
The report covers, in order:
- Executive summary
- Change index
- Consolidated unit summary
- Geographic summary
- Turnover, transfers & closure rates
- Franchisee investment and fees
- Financial performance representation
- Franchisor financial condition
- Franchisor entity & leadership
- Litigation & bankruptcy
- Method, limits and disclaimer
- What this report does not include
- You receive — one analysis report PDF and the 5 source FDD PDFs, 6 downloads in total, available immediately after purchase.
- Every figure is checkable — each carries a citation to its filing, FDD Item, and PDF page, and the filings it cites are in the package.
- Restatements are shown, not overwritten — where a later filing revises an earlier year's figures, both numbers appear with a note.
- Calculated figures are labeled — anything the report calculates rather than quotes is marked as calculated, with its formula published in the report.
- Gaps are explicit — a closing “What this report does not include” section separates what the franchisor didn't disclose from what this report doesn't collect, so an absence is never ambiguous.
Individual FDD Filings
Complete filings as submitted, including exhibits and financial statements.
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2026
September 2026
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2026
March 2026
1st Class Real Estate Area Rep FDD 2025
April 2025
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2025
April 2025
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2024
April 2024
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2023
April 2023
1st Class Real Estate Area Rep FDD 2023
April 2023
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2022
April 2022
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2021
March 2021
1st Class Real Estate Area Rep FDD 2021
March 2021
1st Class Real Estate FDD 2020
April 2020
FDDs are reproduced as filed and are current only as of their filing dates. The FDD Document Processing Fee covers acquisition, storage, organization, and digital delivery of an individually purchased FDD.
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