According to a CNN article in August 2005, there are approximately 2
million licensed real estate agents in the United States. (see below)
So, you want to sell real estate?
Everybody thinks it's easy to sell houses, but not everybody doing it
is getting rich.
August 17, 2005
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Sell real estate for fun and profit. It sounds
almost too easy. You drive clients around for a day or two. You show
them several nice houses. Then -- boom -- hello fat commission.
No wonder there are now some 2 million licensed real estate agents in
the United States, according to estimates from the National
Association of Realtors, and more signing up every day.
Not all licensed real estate sellers are members of NAR, but that
organization has, nationally, 12.7 percent more members today than it
had a year ago, a total of 1.2 million.
California has 172,320 NAR members, more than any other state and up
16.6 percent in the past year. Florida, with less than half the
population of California, has nearly as many NAR members, with
131,052. That's up 16.8 percent over 2004.
The fastest growing market for agents is Arizona, where there are 18.4
percent more than a year ago.....................
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/06/real_estate/buying_selling/real_estate_reality_check/index.htm
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As you say, the NAR website indicates a total of 1,265,569 members by
month-end January 2006. This would mean approximately 734,500 real
estate agents in the US are NOT NAR members.
The source for latest monthly report from the NAR (January 2006):
http://www.realtor.org/referral.nsf/4d17f6fc6fe8ee0a86256ae90078733e/28f7d35ea8c116ca86256620005dadb6/$FILE/mr12006.pdf
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