The 2026 State of Real Estate Transaction Coordination

Transaction coordination has quietly become one of the most consequential parts of the real estate industry. Not in a flashy way — nobody's livestreaming TC work on TikTok — but in the structural sense. The way deals get managed, tracked, and closed has shifted meaningfully over the last three years, and 2026 is the year those shifts stopped being edge cases and became the norm. This is a snapshot of where the industry actually is right now: what's changed, what's driving it, and what it means for agents, brokerages, and the coordinators doing the work — from AI adoption to the rise of virtual TCs to the ripple effects of the NAR settlement.