To determine best markets for realtors, WalletHub’s analysts compared 150 of the largest U.S. cities across 14 key indicators of a healthy housing market, ranging from “sales per agent” to “annual median wage for real-estate agents” to “housing-market health index.”
Best Places to Be a Real-Estate Agent
1 Honolulu, HI
2 Seattle, WA
3 Denver, CO
4 Boston, MA
5 Aurora, CO
6 Madison, WI
7 Reno, NV
8 San Francisco, CA
9 Irvine, CA
10 Austin, TX
Worst Places to Be a Real-Estate Agent
1 Jackson, MS
2 Shreveport, LA
3 Fayetteville, NC
4 Springfield, MO
5 New Orleans, LA
6 Detriot, MI
7 Milwaukee, WI
8 Columbus, GA
9 Cleveland, OH
10 Toledo, OH
Best vs. Worst
- Oxnard, Calif., has the most homes sold in the past year per real-estate agent, 114.09, which is 14.2 times more than in Houston, the city with the fewest at 8.05.
- San Francisco has the highest median house price, $799,600, which is 18.9 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at $42,300.
- Bakersfield, Calif., has the highest annual median wage for real-estate agents, $89,890, which is 4.2 times higher than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the lowest at $21,060.
- Oxnard, Calif., has the lowest real-estate job density, 1.28, which is 19.7 times lower than in Orlando, Fla., the city with the highest at 25.16.
- Sioux Falls, S.D., has the lowest unemployment rate, 2.3 percent, which is 4.5 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 10.40 percent.
- Henderson, Nev., has the highest home turnover rate, 9.87 percent, which is 4.9 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at 2.00 percent.
- San Francisco listings have the fewest days on the market, 47, which is 3.4 times fewer than listings in New York, the city with the most at 162.
- Yonkers, N.Y., has the highest average ratio of home sale price to home list price, 2.03, which is five times higher than in Fayetteville, N.C., the city with the lowest at 0.41.
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