How Many Real Estate Agents Do We Need?The DOJ Needs A Lesson In Basic Arithmetic

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

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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.