Intero Real Estate Services / Intero Resorts
Bottom line
- Total investment $210K – $855K including a $25K franchise fee, 5.0% ongoing royalty.
- No Item 19 financial performance data disclosed — the franchisor chose not to publish revenue figures.
- Rated CAUTION with a risk score of 72/100.
- System contracting at -21.2% CAGR over 3 years. Investigate whether closures are franchisor-driven (consolidation) or franchisee-driven (economics).
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Yale framework · single-unit ROIC
Returns Analysis
Pulls Item 7 (investment) and Item 19 (revenue) from this brand's FDD into the Yale unlevered-ROIC formula. Override any input to stress-test it against your own assumptions.
The model · Yale framework
What would one Intero Real Estate Services / Intero Resorts unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
17%
Below typical band (30–60%)
Overview
About
Intero franchisees operate residential real estate brokerage offices, managing agents who list and sell properties, managing transaction coordination, and handling buyer/seller relationships. Revenue depends entirely on commission splits from agent productivity and market conditions. Franchisees must recruit and retain licensed agents in an increasingly commoditized brokerage market.
Item 7 · what it costs
The Vitals
Item 19
Financial Performance
This franchisor did not disclose financial performance representations in Item 19, or our extractor could not parse them.
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 20 · 4 states with active franchisees
The Territory Map
Derived from franchisee contact records. Shows states with at least one current operator — not where the franchisor is registered to sell new units (that data is re-extracting in a future refresh).
States derived from franchisee phone area codes (Item 20). Approximate — ported numbers may show the original state, not the franchisee's current location.
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
No SBA loan data available for this brand.
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 5, 6, 12, 17
Risk & Legal
Contracting franchise system facing material antitrust litigation, zero financial transparency, and unprotected territory creates elevated risk of franchisee underperformance and legal exposure.
Score breakdown · what drove the 72 / 100 rating
- 01MINORUnit count declining 10.3% YoY (40 units) indicates system contraction and potential franchisee underperformance or attrition
- 02MEDMultiple active antitrust and commission-fixing lawsuits with jury verdict against parent companies creating ongoing legal/reputational risk and potential operational disruptions
- 03MINORNo Item 19 (average revenue/net income) disclosure prevents assessment of actual franchisee profitability and ROI on $210k–$855k investment
- 04MINORUnprotected territory creates direct competition risk from other Intero franchisees and company-owned locations in same market
- 05MINORHigh upper-end investment ($855k) paired with declining unit economics suggests franchisees may be struggling to justify capital outlay
- 06MED10-year term is long-duration commitment in volatile real estate market with no clear exit liquidity or buyback provisions disclosed
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
FDD Items 5, 6, 12, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
Item 11
Training & Operations
Item 20
Franchisee Contacts
Phone numbers extracted directly from this brand's FDD Item 20. After purchase, you'll also receive a list of validation questions tailored to this brand.
Franchisee contacts
33 numbers
One-time purchase · CSV download · Validation questions included
FDD download
Intero Real Estate Services / Intero Resorts · FDD (2025) PDF