Eighty per
cent of new agents have left the industry within two years.
Not exact matches
There is an entire group
of industries like wool, silk, cotton, and rayon weaving when the Jewish interest in production is small, being 5 to 10 per
cent in wool (for example, L. Bachmann
of Uxbridge Worsted, Austin T. Levy
of Stillwater Worsted, and Allen and Bernard Goldfine), 15 per
cent in silk (for example, Hess, Goldsmith & Co., David Silks, Inc., Widder Bros.), 5 per
cent in cotton (the Cone family
of North Carolina, Sigmund Odenheimer
of New Orleans, Elias Reiss
of New York), and 16 per
cent in rayon - yarn production (Industrial Rayon and Celanese Corp.) But in these same industries the Jewish interest in distribution is large, half the wool sales
agents and jobbers, three - quarters
of the silk converters, and three - quarters
of the cotton converters being Jews.
A
new report from Equifax Canada says high - risk and suspected fraudulent mortgage activity is on the rise, and also found that «44 per
cent of Canadians trust real estate
agents the least during the home - buying experience».
The
newer agents took up more than 60 per
cent of the office space.
In 2003, 1,209
agents joined Royal LePage as «
new to business» sales
agents, compared to 626 in 2002, an increase
of 93.1 per
cent, year - over-year.
Of those we surveyed, 79 per cent agreed that offering websites helps recruit agents; 76 per cent agreed that offering websites helps retain agents; and 79 per cent agreed that providing websites speeds the productivity of new agent
Of those we surveyed, 79 per
cent agreed that offering websites helps recruit
agents; 76 per
cent agreed that offering websites helps retain
agents; and 79 per
cent agreed that providing websites speeds the productivity
of new agent
of new agents.
When Liniger launched Re / Max, says Popow, he «issued a challenge to the standards in the industry (50/50 split) by letting
agents keep 100 per
cent of their commissions in exchange for a small fee for services provided by the
new Re / Max brokerage for office and desk space, tools, administrative support and brand advertising.
The government has also jumped on the
agent bashing bandwagon... first removing self - regulation from the industry, then imposing a 15 per
cent foreign buyer tax to attempt to cool down the market, and then mandating 28
new policies to tighten up control
of brokerages and their associates.
«Seventy per
cent of all sales take place on 30 per
cent of the streets,» says d'Ancona, so
new agents could target a high - turnover street with their marketing materials.
The majority
of agents surveyed indicated that
new home sales account for less than 10 per
cent of their business.