With real-estate inventory down by more than half compared to last year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2021’s Best Places to Be a Real Estate Agent, as well as accompanying videos.
To determine the best markets for real-estate agents, WalletHub compared more than 170 U.S. cities across 22 key indicators of a healthy housing market, ranging from sales per agent to the annual median wage for real-estate agents to the housing-market health index.
| Best Places to Be a Real-Estate Agent | |
| 1. Seattle, WA | 11. Vancouver, WA |
| 2. Pearl City, HI | 12. Reno, NV |
| 3. Sacramento, CA | 13. West Valley City, UT |
| 4. Salt Lake City, UT | 14. Billings, MT |
| 5. Denver, CO | 15. Portland, ME |
| 6. Nashville, TN | 16. Portland, OR |
| 7. Washington, DC | 17. San Diego, CA |
| 8. Huntsville, AL | 18. Atlanta, GA |
| 9. Austin, TX | 19. Boston, MA |
| 10. San Jose, CA | 20. Irvine, CA |
Best vs. Worst
- Stockton, California, has the most homes sold in the past year per real-estate agent, 103.66, which is 25.5 times more than in Nashua, New Hampshire, the city with the fewest at 4.06.
- San Francisco has the highest median house price, $1,097,800, which is 22.3 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at $49,200.
- Aurora and Denver, Colorado, have the highest annual median wage for real-estate agents, $90,180, which is 3.4 times higher than in Salem, Oregon, the city with the lowest at $26,850.
- San Jose, California, listings have the fewest days on the market, 37, which is 4.8 times fewer than listings in New York, the city with the most at 178.<
- Memphis, Tennessee, has the highest share of home flips, 11.95 percent, which is 6.1 times higher than in Portland, Maine, the city with the lowest at 1.95 percent.
