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Rick Davidson

Chair and CEO, 
Cairn Real Estate Holdings
2025 Rank: 94
Davidson leads Cairn Real Estate Holdings with a portfolio that includes the large brokerage and franchise operator JP and Associates Realtors (JPAR), which operates a fee-based brokerage model and has more than 4,200 agents who do over $7 billion in annual sales. In 2024, JPAR revamped its agent revenue model — dropping its cap fees from 23 to 16 sides — and hired Agently for agent training to further support brokerage growth. Davidson, a more than 35-year industry veteran, formerly led Century 21 Real Estate as CEO from 2010 to 2017.

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