Matt Widdows, HomeSmart – Swanepoel Power 200 | Real Estate Almanac
Matt Widdows
Matt Widdows
Founder and CEO
HomeSmart
Scottsdale, AZ
21
SP 200 Ranking
Last updated January 23, 2026
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Matt Widdows
Founder and CEO, HomeSmart
Scottsdale, AZ
21
SP 200 Ranking
Last updated January 23, 2026
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Executive Biography
Widdows runs Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart, the fee-based brokerage he founded in 2000 that allows agents to pay transaction and membership fees in lieu of splitting commissions with the brokerage. HomeSmart, the 12th-largest real estate enterprise in the US, has approximately 64,500 agents at company-owned and franchised offices who do approximately $31 billion in annual sales. In 2025, the firm unveiled a full rebrand to mark its 25th anniversary and entered a national marketing agreement with mortgage lender Lower Mortgage.