Don’t Be A Real Estate Agent

The following is an item appearing in The Arizona Daily Wildcat. Although it is an article about the real estate industry in America, its predictions are very relevant in Australia – Peter Mericka (Editor Australian Real Estate Blog).

Don’t Be A Real Estate Agent by Ryan Johnson Arizona Daily Wildcat

(Ryan Johnson is a senior majoring in economics and international studies. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu)

“How many of you want to go to into real estate?” the English-accented professor asked one regional development course on the first day of class this semester. About half the hands went up.

Warning, warning regional development majors: listen up. You’re about to go into an overcrowded field that has over the last two years become much more so. You’re going into a field with bleak future growth prospects, and you’re going into a field that is gradually being replaced by technology.”

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