Real Estate Brokers

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Broker, Managing Broker, Real Estate Broker, Realtor

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What they do:
Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.
On the job, you would:
  • Sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others.
  • Obtain agreements from property owners to place properties for sale with real estate firms.
  • Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers over property prices and settlement details and during the closing of sales.

Knowledge

Business

  • sales and marketing
  • customer service

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

  • bringing people together to solve differences
  • talking people into changing their minds or their behavior

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • notice when problems happen

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Integrity
  • Initiative
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Attention to Detail
  • Persistence
  • Achievement/Effort

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Data base user interface and query software

  • Microsoft Access Hot Technology
  • Yardi software Hot Technology

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Internet browser software

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Web browser software

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
some college
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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