Posts from July 4th, 2023
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Tens of Thousands of Real Estate Agents Are Leaving the Business. Will Your Favorite One Survive?
Real estate often seems like a fun, easy, high-paying career to outsiders. But it seems even more appealing to people when the market is hot, like it had been over the past few years. Couple that with a pandemic that caused people to either lose their jobs or simply look for something they'd rather do for a living, and the past few years saw the number of real estate agents swell to record numbers.
But now that interest rates have risen — causing many buyers to either hit the sidelines or get priced out of the market — a lot of real estate agents are calling it quits. In fact, 60,000 agents have left the business in just the last 6 months alone, according to