America could fire 1.2M realtors and still sell every house

America could fire 1.2M realtors and still sell every house professionlens.com

The US has 1,439,163 Realtors for 4.06 million existing-home sales, 2.8 homes each a year; Sweden's 7,465 registered agents sold 171,200 homes, 22.9 each, so at the Swedish rate the US would need about 177,000 agents.

2 points•simonengel21•about 4 hours ago•1 comment•

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MiroslavPokornyabout 3 hours ago

I think it was Napoleon who said the British was a nation of shopkeepers, applies to America today.

Everyone wants to be a sales person and earn commission, and the economy can only have so many until everything becomes very expensive because of the cake of commissions means the prices of everything skyrockets.

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