One of our favorite Chicagoland brokers, Judi Bryan, offered some interesting data today on the RealTalk list serv.
Current real estate licensees in United States: 2,636,783
Total U.S. population: 298,823,815
Assuming that the average household size is 4 people, there is 1 licensee per 28 households.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice thinks that the industry is not competitive enough. Perhaps they should spend a little more time on their basic math exercises and a little less time on more prurient interests. --Frances Flynn Thorsen
Assuming that the average household size is 4 people, there is 1 licensee per 28 households.
For the record, there were about 105M households in the US as of the 2000 Census and that number's only gone up.
Posted by: dbt | May 30, 2006 at 08:25 AM