Sibcy Cline Real Estate Review: Is it Worth It?

Overall rating | Customer experience | Agent quality | Brand visibility and reach | Service value | Locations | Methodology

Sibcy Cline is a family-owned real estate brokerage with 20 offices across the Greater Cincinnati and Dayton areas in Ohio, as well as parts of Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana. First founded back in 1930, it’s one of the most well-established real estate brokerages in the region.

But how does Sibcy Cline stack up against other brands? We did a deep dive and evaluated Sibcy Cline in four key areas to help you decide whether it's the right option for you.

Bottom line: Do we recommend Sibcy Cline?

Based on our assessment, Sibcy Cline is a reliable brokerage. It offers all the baseline services we’d expect of a conventional brokerage. Plus, it has a few bonus services, like an intuitive customer portal for managing your sale or purchase and an in-house creative marketing team to make your listing shine.

Sibcy Cline has a large team of 800+ agents across its 20 offices, which means you’ll have plenty to choose from. And its average agent experience is 17 years — more than double the median average among U.S. realtors. According to its customer reviews, the brokerage has a solid reputation.

The most important thing is the agent — not the brand. Whether you’re selling or buying, we recommend interviewing at least two or three agents to find the best fit.

Sibcy Cline: Our in-depth breakdown

Reputation and customer experience

We dug into Sibcy Cline’s overall reputation and customer ratings, and we liked what we saw. After compiling 240 total reviews for its 20 local offices, we found it has an average 4.3 customer rating. That’s pretty solid compared to other similar brokerages we’ve researched.

We also ran 96 of Sibcy Cline’s written reviews through a program that identifies emotional language. Here are some key themes from the report:

Overall, the reviews’ negative, neutral, and positive sentiment scores were pretty balanced, which is normal. People usually use third-party review sites to complain rather than to praise. No one registered complaints with the Better Business Bureau, but there were no positive reviews either.

Agent quality

Compared to other similarly sized brokerages, Sibcy Cline’s average agent quality seems high. We found that the average Sibcy Cline agent has over 17 years of experience, much more than the industry median of 8 years.

Sibcy Cline’s average transaction volume per agent in 2022 was 9.5. That number is fair compared to other brands, but it’s still solid enough to show that the team is good overall.

We had a hard time tracking down customer reviews for individual Sibcy Cline agents. That’s not a dealbreaker, but it does make it harder to vet the brokerage upfront.

Sibcy Cline is a legit, top-producing regional brokerage with a stellar reputation, but you’ll need to dig around to evaluate individual agents. Be thorough during the interviews: ask for sales numbers and even references from past clients.

Brand reach and visibility

Sibcy Cline has exceptional brand reach and visibility compared to other comparable brokerages, in terms of size and market coverage. More than 119,000 people search "Sibcy Cline" and other branded terms on Google each month. And Sibcy Cline says its website gets more than 35,000 visitors every day.

Both metrics signal a high degree of brand visibility and are pretty impressive for a regional brokerage of Sibcy Cline’s size. And because Sibcy Cline has a lot of agents in a relatively small area (831 active agents across 20 locations), its local network is strong.

Brokerages with strong local networks can help you find buyers or listings that fit your needs, making your sale or purchase go much faster and smoother.

Service value

Sibcy Cline has relatively good value. You get all the standard services you’d expect from a "full-service brokerage" (professional photography, pricing assistance, MLS listings), plus a little extra.

Sibcy Cline clients also get a customer portal to streamline communications, an in-house photo team, and staging.

Agents will also be there for open houses and showings, which is great news for sellers (and not always the case with other brokerages).

If you hire a Sibcy Cline agent to help you sell on your own, you can expect to pay full commission — whatever the local competitive rates are. Here are the state averages for the markets Sibcy Cline operates in, to give you a frame of reference:

» MORE: Average Commission Rates Across the U.S. 2022

Additional info about Sibcy Cline

General contact info (corporate office)

Sibcy Cline local offices and contact information

Other Sibcy Cline services

This review is focused on Sibcy Cline's core real estate agent service. We’ve listed its other services (mortgage, title, insurance, etc.) and links to their respective websites below.

Make sure you shop around to get the best fit and value. Don’t go with a Sibcy service just because of the convenience!

• Mortgage
• Insurance
• Title
• Relocation
• U.S. Military on the Move
• Home Services
• Home Warranty

Next steps: Start interviewing agents!

Interview multiple agents (ideally two to three) to ensure you get the best fit and value. Remember: always hire the agent, not the brand. When you’re ready to start searching, check out our guide on how to choose the right real estate agent. Clever’s free agent-matching service makes agent shopping fast and easy, and it can save you money.

Rating methodology

We evaluate brokerages based on four core criteria we think will help readers make informed decisions. We broke those criteria down into discrete metrics so we could make the score as objective as possible. Here’s a quick breakdown of that criteria and methodology: