eXp World completes AGNT name change, relocates to Texas

eXp World Holdings, Inc. has completed its corporate transformation to AGNT, Inc., including a formal name change and a move of its legal domicile from Delaware to Texas, the company announced Thursday.

The holding company for eXp Realty, NextHome, FrameVR.io and SUCCESS Enterprises now trades on Nasdaq under the AGNT ticker and will operate under the AGNT, Inc. name going forward. The shift follows the May 2026 adoption of the AGNT ticker and the addition of NextHome to the platform, which the company describes as a multi-model, agent-focused ecosystem spanning cloud brokerage, franchise and ancillary services.

Glenn Sanford, founder, chairman and CEO of AGNT, said the new corporate identity is intended to formalize the company’s longstanding strategy of building economic and technology models around independent real estate agents. At the brokerage level, eXp Realty CEO Leo Pareja pointed to the firm’s scale — it bills itself as the world’s largest independent brokerage — and said the AGNT structure is designed to give that agent-first mission “a permanent home” at the holding company level.

Redomestication to Texas

As part of the transformation, AGNT has completed its redomestication from Delaware to Texas. The move was recommended by a special committee of independent directors after a review process that lasted more than a year and was supported by outside counsel, according to the announcement. Shareholders approved the change at the company’s May 8, 2026, annual meeting.

The company said Texas law better matches its agent-driven business model because it expressly allows directors and officers to consider the interests of constituencies such as agents when exercising fiduciary duties. That framing is notable for broker-owners and shareholders watching how public real estate platforms navigate pressure to balance agent economics, profitability and litigation or regulatory risk.

This move comes despite New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who is a trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, an AGNT shareholder, calling on investors to block the firm’s attempt to move its place of incorporation to Texas. 

Critics of the firm claimed that it was trying to reincorporate to dodge allegations that the company and its executives enabled the drugging and rapes of women attending recruiting events. 

AGNT has repeatedly told HousingWire that it “has zero tolerance for abuse, harassment or misconduct of any kind — including by the independent real estate agents who use our services,” and that it believes the claims against Sanford and the firm “are without merit.”

In mid-April, an AGNT spokesperson told HousingWire that the decision to reincorporate in Texas reflected “the Board’s considered judgment about the long-term operational and governance interests of the company and its shareholders. “

“Any characterization of the timing as ‘suspect’ misrepresents a lengthy, good-faith process and a misunderstanding of the reincorporation impacts on existing litigation,” the spokesperson said. 

AGNT said it will continue to use its website, www.agntinc.com, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, press releases, calls, webcasts and social channels as primary outlets for investor information.

This article was written by Brooklee Han and generated with the assistance of HousingWire Automation, then reviewed by a HousingWire editor before publication.