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Real Estate Brokers

Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.

US jobs
46,100
Median wage
$73,220 a year
Job family
Sales and marketing

Can agents do the work of real estate brokers?

We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Sales and marketing:

  • Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from 2025. On Salesforce's CRMArena-Pro, which tests sales, service, and configure-price-quote requests inside a CRM, the best recorded agent succeeds on 58.3% of single-turn tasks and on fewer multi-turn tasks (Gemini 2.5 Pro, May 2025). No newer results are published.
  • Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes sales managers among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests running a campaign or a sales pipeline over weeks.

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in sales and marketing, not always this occupation's tasks.

  • CRMArena-Proby Salesforce AI ResearchTask level · Single-turn task success (B2C org)
    58.3%gemini-2.5-pro (ReAct) · 24 May 2025
    Emerging
  • GDPvalby OpenAIProject level · Wins plus ties against experts
    84.9%GPT-5.5 · Apr 2026
    Strong
  • GDPval-AAby Artificial AnalysisProject level · GDPval-AA Elo
    1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026
    Unrated

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

  • Obtain agreements from property owners to place properties for sale with real estate firms.
  • Sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others.
  • Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.
  • Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers over property prices and settlement details and during the closing of sales.
  • Generate lists of properties for sale, their locations, descriptions, and available financing options, using computers.
  • Maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws, types of available mortgages, financing options, and government programs.
  • Rent properties or manage rental properties.
  • Monitor fulfillment of purchase contract terms to ensure that they are handled in a timely manner.
  • Check work completed by loan officers, attorneys, or other professionals to ensure that it is performed properly.
  • Appraise property values, assessing income potential when relevant.
  • Arrange for financing of property purchases.
  • Review property details to ensure that environmental regulations are met.
Other job titles for this occupation (27)

Broker · Broker Associate · Commercial Leasing Broker · Commercial Real Estate Advisor · Commercial Real Estate Broker · Designated Broker · Managing Broker · Real Estate Associate · Real Estate Sales Associate · Realtor · Buyer Broker · Buyers Agent · Closing Agent · Lease Administration Analyst · Lease Analyst · Lease Coordinator · Leasing Professional · Leasing Specialist · Licensed Real Estate Broker · Property Broker · Real Estate Broker Associate · Real Estate Closer · Real Estate Representative (Real Estate Rep) · Real Estate Specialist · Real Estate Transaction Coordinator · Realty Loan Specialist · Realty Specialist