This Month In Real Estate Investing
Jul 27, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
This special Best Of episode of This Month In Real Estate Investing revisits some of the show’s most revealing conversations about surviving a rapidly changing property market. The panel examines…
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With home sales falling in Colorado, real estate agents will have to fight over a shrinking pie.
During the pandemic, thousands of people in Colorado lost or left their jobs and got licensed with the common misperception that being a real estate agent was easy money.
But with the high interest rates, sales have fallen by a fifth and are expected to slow even more, reducing the number of agents needed.
There are already about a thousand realtors that have dropped out, at least as being realtors, which is another thing.
designation, another layer above being an agent with extra ethics training and stuff involved.
But they were tracking how many people were realtors and a thousand dropped out already just recently.
and the change in this market is going to make it even more difficult for them to hang on.
There are a lot of agents that don't do many deals or have enough to make a living wage.
Companies like Redfin, a quarter of its agent employees, their agents are actually employees, cut a quarter of them.
With home sales falling in Colorado, real estate agents will have to fight over a shrinking pie.
During the pandemic, thousands of people in Colorado lost or left their jobs and got licensed with the common misperception that being a real estate agent was easy money.
But with the high interest rates, sales have fallen by a fifth and are expected to slow even more, reducing the number of agents needed.
There are already about a thousand realtors that have dropped out, at least as being realtors, which is another thing.
designation, another layer above being an agent with extra ethics training and stuff involved.
But they were tracking how many people were realtors and a thousand dropped out already just recently.
and the change in this market is going to make it even more difficult for them to hang on.
There are a lot of agents that don't do many deals or have enough to make a living wage.
Companies like Redfin, a quarter of its agent employees, their agents are actually employees, cut a quarter of them.
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