There are still plenty of opportunities for real estate sales agents, appraisers and home inspectors. Real estate markets expand and contract for a variety of reasons – all of which we have no control over. What we can control, is how we react to these cycles.
For metro Atlanta – FMLS shows closed sales to date in 2007 at 53,818 residences and we still have two weeks to go. That is down just 8% from the record sales year of 2006. Even with the decrease in activity and the decrease in the average sales price, there were still $700 million dollars worth of commissions in just the residential portion of the market that FMLS represents. That also translates into over $22 million dollars worth of appraisal fees and home inspection fees from just that one segment of the market.
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