by Calculated Risk on 6/13/2025 02:09:00 PM
Way back in 2005, I posted a graph of the Real Estate Agent Boom. Here is another update to the graph.
The graph shows the number of real estate licensees in California.
The number of agents peaked at the end of 2007 (housing activity peaked in 2005, and prices in 2006).
Click on graph for larger image.
The number of salesperson’s licenses started increasing again in 2014 (after house prices bottomed), and peaked again in early 2024 (ignoring weird pandemic distortion).
The number of salesperson’s licenses is down 1.4% year-over-year.
Brokers’ licenses are off 21% from the peak and are still slowly declining (down 2.3% year-over-year).
