{"id":20925,"date":"2019-09-06T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=20925"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T21:34:04","slug":"there-are-more-realtors-in-america-right-now-than-ever-before-heres-what-it-really-takes-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/there-are-more-realtors-in-america-right-now-than-ever-before-heres-what-it-really-takes-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are More Realtors in America Right Now Than Ever Before. Here’s What It Really Takes to Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Realtors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year 55-year-old Jill Ballantyne took a big chance. She left the stability of a 27-year career in education to pursue a long-time passion: Selling real estate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something I really believe in,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Ballantyne isn\u2019t alone in making the leap. A decade after housing crisis, Americans are once again in love with buying, remodeling and selling homes. Cable television shows like \u201cHouse Hunters\u201d and \u201cMillion Dollar Listing\u201d attract millions of viewers. Nationally, home prices\u00a0are again at record highs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In June, membership in the\u00a0National Association of Realtors<\/a>\u00a0reached an all-time high of 1.373 million, eclipsing the pre-financial crisis peak set in October 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a trend you always see when the market is doing well \u2013\u2013 the number of licensees increases,\u201d says Ken Johnson, a real estate economist at Florida Atlantic University who was a real estate agent before moving to academia in 1995. He recalls an expression from his own real estate days: \u201cWe always said the rookies are here to take the icing off the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first glance, working in real estate seems like an attractive proposition, with competitive pay and the promise of setting your own hours. And let\u2019s face it: Who doesn\u2019t like looking at homes? Still, pros caution it may not be as easy as it looks. Commissions look fat at first glance, but agents are typically required to work\u00a0under more highly-credentialed<\/a>\u00a0brokers \u2013\u2013 who might take a significant cut. While there is money to be made in real estate, most of the big paychecks go to the top-producing agents.<\/p>\n

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