Real Estate · registry year 2024 · HQ NJ
Century 21 Franchise
A Anywhere Real Estate brand operating in the real estate sector, franchising since 1972. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Century 21, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- Up to $25K
- Initial investment
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 14,000
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry century-21 Century 21
Century 21 has its FDD financials below and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical real estate franchise.
- HI $25K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 14,000
- I19 Silent
- INV# #219/223
- UNT# #10/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: NextHome ($10K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Century 21 (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Century 21's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.0% net unit growth (YoY) 21/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Investment Overview
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
300 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Subsector
- residential
- Founded
- 1971
- Franchising Since
- 1972
- Headquarters
- NJ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Century 21
This Century 21 page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Century 21.
National footprint registry read for Century 21
Signature read: 14,000 locations · Item 7 low -
Century 21, a Anywhere Real Estate franchise, has been franchising since 1972 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1971 , currently with 14,000 total locations (14,000 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the real estate sector, headquartered in NJ. The registry summary does not carry a full investment range for this brand.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 8.0%. Century 21 has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
The registry records a net count only and does not attribute it to openings, closures, or other causes.
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Related reading for Century 21: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Century 21 has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
How Century 21's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Century 21 , both outside HQ state NJ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (14,000 here).
What to do with this
Century 21 at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Century 21 scores 11/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its Up to $25K entry cost runs below the typical real estate franchise.
- Ranks #219 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- NextHome sits at a comparable investment level ($10K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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