One of our basic reasons for being is in reaction to the raw growth in the number of Realtors. There are two-thirds more realtors to choose from than there were in 2000.

Bob Hagerty of the Wall Street Journal had an excellent article today on this very trend.

You may think to yourself that becoming a Realtor is a relatively lucrative profession - if you could just sell a few of those million dollar homes you’d be doing very well. Even though you get paid a lot more money per house, because there are more realtors than ever you get paid about the same. Indeed slightly less than a few years ago according to the article:

“The median annual income of real-estate sales agents in 2004 was only $37,600, down from $39,300 in 2002, according to the Realtors.”

As for us, we’d like to help homeowners choose the best one in and among this increasingly noisy landscape.