They Left eXp. They Got Courted by Every Major Brokerage. They Came Back.
A team joining a brokerage is a weak signal. A team that left, spent time as an independent, took meetings with everyone else, and then came back is a stronger one. That is what The Victorica Group did in August 2025.
The figures and quotes below are from eXp Realty's announcement of the return.
What eXp reported
- A network of 100+ agents, with a 30-agent mega team at the core
- 900+ units closed in 2024
- $103 million+ in sales volume
- #1 team in the San Antonio chapter of NAHREP
They actually shopped
Most agents evaluating a move compare their current brokerage against one alternative, usually the one whose recruiter called most recently. The Victorica Group had already done the harder version: they had left, run their own brokerage, and then fielded offers across the industry with real production numbers and real leverage.
"We were courted by every major brokerage, but the decision ultimately came down to values. Leadership isn't just about being at the top. It's about lifting others up with you." — Mario Victorica, quoted in eXp Realty's announcement of the return.
"When a team of this caliber chooses eXp, it reinforces what makes our model so powerful: agents thrive here not just because of the numbers, but because of the culture and long-term vision we share." — Leo Pareja, CEO of eXp Realty, in the same release.
Both quotes are from a recruitment release and should be weighted accordingly. The verifiable fact is the round trip itself, and round trips are unusual enough to be worth noticing.
The Culture Center detail
eXp reported that the group's return included opening a Culture Center. These are physical hubs inside a cloud brokerage — training space, meeting space, somewhere to bring a client. Bean Group runs one at 1150 Sagamore Avenue, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which is what makes "local sponsor" a place rather than a phrase. Ours is described on the culture center page; theirs is in Texas and unrelated to it.
What to take from it
If you are considering going independent, the Victorica Group ran that experiment with more scale and more leverage than most agents will ever have, and chose to come back. That is not proof that independence is a mistake. It is a data point about what the overhead of ownership costs at 100 agents.
Bean Group's team structures are on the eXp teams page, and the split and cap detail — a $4,000 eXp cap on the Mega Team, with a separate uncapped Bean Group team split by level — is on the plans page.
We date our figures rather than assume they hold. eXp maintains the current set at exptoolkit.com/revenueshare.