Why Choose Coldwell Banker in the Midlands? Work With South Carolina’s #1 Team
Why the brokerage you choose still matters
If you are buying or selling a home on Lake Murray or anywhere in the South Carolina Midlands, the agent you hire matters most. The brokerage behind that agent still matters, too. Brand, technology, and the resources behind a listing all shape how far your home can travel.
We are The Patrick O’Connor Team at Coldwell Banker Realty. This post explains why we choose this brand in our market, what a strong recent quarter says about the company behind it, and why families who want that combination should work with us.
We are the #1 Coldwell Banker team in South Carolina.
A brand built on service, now local across the Midlands
Coldwell Banker was founded in 1906, after the San Francisco earthquake, when Colbert Coldwell set out to build a company around honest, knowledgeable service instead of taking advantage of people in a difficult moment.
In 1913 he invited Benjamin Arthur Banker to join that work, and the firm that became Coldwell Banker was grounded in honesty, integrity, and service.
A familiar brand does not replace local judgment, but it can make the first conversation easier, especially for someone moving here who has already seen the Coldwell Banker name in another city.
That presence is local as well as national. Coldwell Banker Realty has company-owned offices serving the greater Columbia area, including locations in Columbia, Lexington, Irmo, and Chapin.
Our Lexington and Lake Murray office is at 607 Columbia Avenue in Lexington.
For a seller, that means your listing is represented by a team that works this market every day and is backed by a brokerage with nearby offices and a recognized name. For a buyer, it means you can work with people who know the difference between a Lake Murray waterfront home, a neighborhood in Chapin, and a property closer to downtown Columbia.
What a strong quarter says about the company behind the brand
Coldwell Banker Realty is part of a larger organization. In January 2026, Compass, Inc. completed its combination with Anywhere Real Estate, the former parent of Coldwell Banker, and the brands continue to operate under Compass International Holdings.
The Coldwell Banker name did not disappear. Company-owned Coldwell Banker Realty offices are owned by a subsidiary of that parent company, and the brand remains the one our clients see on signs, listing materials, and our website.
On November 5, 2026, Compass reported its third-quarter results. Those figures belong to the parent company as a whole, not to Coldwell Banker Realty by itself. They matter because they show the financial strength behind the network that supports our work.
The company set third-quarter records for revenue, profitability, and cash flow while the broader housing market remained challenging.
Third-quarter revenue reached $3.9 billion.
That revenue was up 11.6 percent year over year on a pro forma basis that treats Compass and Anywhere as a combined company.
Adjusted EBITDA, a common measure of operating profitability, was $306 million, a record for any third quarter in the company’s history.
Operating cash flow was $248 million, also a third-quarter record.
The company ended the quarter with $841 million in cash.
Its owned brokerage business, measured on an organic and pro forma basis, also outpaced the national market. Organic brokerage sales volume grew faster than the overall U.S. residential market by 680 basis points.
Organic brokerage transactions outperformed the national market by about 150 basis points.
Those numbers do not mean every Midlands listing sold faster than the national average. They do show a parent company that grew, stayed profitable, and generated cash even while industry transaction counts were down, which gives it room to keep investing in agents, technology, and the brand.
What that strength can mean for buyers and sellers here
When you hire a Coldwell Banker Realty team, you are hiring local people who can also draw on a national brand, a wider referral network, and technology the parent company is putting in front of its owned-brokerage professionals.
One example is the Home platform, which Compass describes as an end-to-end system built for real estate professionals, from first contact through closing. The company has been onboarding Coldwell Banker Realty professionals onto that platform and has also described a Client Dashboard meant to give buyers and sellers more visibility during a transaction.
Tools do not sell a house by themselves. Pricing, preparation, photography, negotiation, and honest advice still decide the outcome. The advantage is pairing those fundamentals with a brand people recognize.
That mix is especially useful when a buyer is coming from out of state. Relocating families often start with a name they already trust, then look for a local team that knows the water, the school districts, and the neighborhoods around the lake.
Why work with The Patrick O’Connor Team
There are many good agents under the Coldwell Banker name. If you want the strength of the brand in this market, here is why families choose our team.
We are the #1 Coldwell Banker team in South Carolina.
We have sold over 1,800 homes.
Our career sales volume is over $600 million.
Those totals come from years of representing buyers and sellers across Lake Murray, Lexington, Irmo, Chapin, Columbia, and the surrounding Midlands.
We also market homes in a way most listings never receive. We film authentic, full home-tour videos so buyers can walk through a property before they book a showing.
Some of those single videos have generated 20 or more calls from relocating buyers.
Our real estate YouTube channel has more than 100,000 subscribers.
In 2026, 37 of our clients came from YouTube.
One of those clients purchased a $1.3 million listing in Chapin.
This year we also took over more than a dozen listings that other agents had not sold. Some of those homes had sat for several months to a year or more.
Every one of those takeover listings sold.
A local example
You can see that kind of relaunch in a real Midlands sale. We took over the listing for 942 Battenkill Court in Saluda River Club after its first listing stalled, refreshed the marketing, and sold the home. Read the case study at https://www.scmidlandsagent.com/blog-patrick-oconnor-team/942-battenkill-court-lexington-sc-case-study.
For more on how we use video, search, and social media with that listing work, see our recent post on marketing homes with AI and social media: https://www.scmidlandsagent.com/blog-patrick-oconnor-team/how-we-use-ai-and-social-media-to-sell-homes-lake-murray-midlands-2026.
Does a national company’s earnings report change anything for my home?
It does not set your list price, and it does not replace a strategy built for your neighborhood. It does tell you whether the organization behind your agent is investing or retreating. The parent company’s third-quarter results show record revenue, profitability, and cash flow, which supports continued investment in agents, technology, and the Coldwell Banker brand you see in this market.
Is Coldwell Banker still Coldwell Banker after the Compass combination?
Yes. Compass completed its combination with Anywhere Real Estate in January 2026, and Coldwell Banker remains a distinct brand within that larger company. You will still work with Coldwell Banker Realty here in the Midlands. What changed at the corporate level is the parent organization and the resources behind the brand, not the local name on our listings.
Why should I choose your team instead of another Coldwell Banker agent?
The brand is the foundation. The team is how that foundation gets used. We pair Coldwell Banker’s reach with local marketing that already reaches Midlands and relocating buyers, including full home-tour videos and a YouTube audience built around this market. If you want the strength of Coldwell Banker here and a team that puts that strength to work, we would be glad to talk through your next step.
Ready to buy or sell? Call The Patrick O’Connor Team at 803-243-0224.