Real Estate Agent Salary Guide
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You might have just found a way to make it all work. A flexible work environment is the key reason many choose a career in real estate.
- Schedule work around your child's school and activities
- Extra income to support your whole family
- A professional community that understands family and ambition
This Salary Guide will help you uncover the realities of a real estate career. It will also offer up ideas and action plans to create a profitable new career that works for you and your family.
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Understanding the Real Estate Licensing Process
2021-11-24Before you can become a real estate agent, you need to understand the real estate licensing process. Depending on the pre-licensing program you choose and your dedication to your studies, the process of obtaining your real estate license could take weeks or months. The…
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2021-11-10Real estate agents come from all different backgrounds and ages. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) finds that 95 percent of agents chose a career in real estate after leaving one or two previous careers—usually in business, finance, or management. Regardless of your background,…
How to Handle Ups and Downs in the Real Estate Market
2021-10-11Working as a real estate agent sometimes feels like you’re playing craps in Vegas. If the housing market is hot, your phone never stops ringing, and you rake in the chips. If the market is cold, every deal seems to fizzle out. How can…
9 Ways to Turn Your Social Media Addiction Into a Successful Real Estate Career
2021-09-22Before he had a successful real estate career, Steven David Elliot was running bookstores in Florida and North Carolina. These were the early days of social media, he filled downtime surfing Facebook and other sites, connecting with friends, reading articles, “killing the monotony.” “If…
7 Costs to Consider When Starting a Real Estate Career
2021-09-01When you launch your real estate career, as with any small business, you’ll need to budget startup costs into the total cost of being an agent. You’ll have to cover some of these expenses before selling your first property. If you prepare for these…
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Hybrid Real Estate Brokerages: Are They for You?
2021-10-25Before Redfin and Zillow and 3-D video tours became the techno-tools for finding a property, real estate agents guided clients through the minefields of buying and selling a house. Today, 90 percent of home buyers rely on the internet as a primary research tool,…
7 Costs to Consider When Starting a Real Estate Career
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The Easiest Way to Make More, According to Science
2021-07-28Learning how to make more in real estate takes time and commitment, but recent research shows there’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your earnings: be happy. If it sounds too simple, it’s not. We surveyed agents across the country to uncover how…
Commercial Real Estate Agent Salary: More Training Can Mean Bigger Rewards
2021-06-16There’s a reason the typical commercial real estate agent salary is six figures. The learning curve to become a commercial agent is six months to six years and comes with an expectation of increased education, said Thomas Riley, a New Hampshire commercial agent and treasurer…
30 Real Estate Jobs and Their Salaries
2021-06-02Today there are more than 5 million people working in various parts of the real estate industry in the United States. Real estate has many wide-ranging career opportunities associated with it, both directly and indirectly. Many real estate jobs require licensing—such as a real…
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Trick of the Trade: Networking for Real Estate Professionals
2022-01-05Networking. A delight for some, a nightmare for others. Whatever your feelings are about networking, it is an essential part of being a real estate agent. However, just because it’s necessary, doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun and personally fulfilling as well. We…
7 Do’s for Open Houses During the Holidays (And 4 Don’ts)
2021-12-29Selling a house around the holidays can be a difficult task for your clients. There’s a traditional assumption that this is when the market slows down. Despite that, many real estate agents earn more by capitalizing on less inventory to drive demand for buyers…
Working With Real Estate Investors? Here’s Why They Make Great Clients
2021-12-15This story is part of our contributor series. Daniela Andreevska is Marketing Director at Mashvisor, a real estate analytics tool that helps real estate investors and agents quickly find traditional and Airbnb investment properties. A research process that’s usually 3 months now can take…
Lead Guru Provides Tips for Generating Real Estate Leads
2021-11-22A “lead,” in real estate, is any person or company who might want to work with you—now, in the near future, or maybe years from now. A lead might be someone currently in the market for a home, or someone looking ahead to retirement…
Working With First-Time Homebuyers in the Luxury Real Estate Market
2021-11-03Barbara Fox specializes in the luxury real estate market in Manhattan, selling apartments and townhomes. Manhattan is New York City’s most expensive and densely populated borough. Since New York City is a renting town, the founder of Fox Residential Group often works with first-time…
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