ALISO VIEJO, CA, November 15, 2006 – There has been a huge surge of real estate agents over the last five years – a 75% increase – growing the total number of agents from approximately 1.5 million to over 2.6 million.  Most real estate schools have been busy, in large part, meeting the needs of people seeking their real estate license. Many Realtor® Associations offer only NAR courses, thereby excluding their members from some 90% of all real estate courses available. While many large real estate brokers offer great training programs most small to medium size brokerage firms simply don’t have the resources or access to quality educational products. 

“With increased legal issues, the growth of the Internet and the development of tens of new real estate business models; I can without hesitation state that real estate industry is considerably more complicated than two decades ago,” says Stefan Swanepoel, author of the best-selling Swanepoel TRENDS Report. “These combined circumstances have caused real estate agents in general to be less qualified today than 10 years ago,” he said.

“If we truly wish to call ourselves real estate professionals agents will have to follow a planned real estate career development path,” says Bill Shue, President of RealtyU®, the largest real estate education and training organization in the country. “Survey after survey shows a huge void and pressing need for basic skills training, productivity guidance and online marketing skills training,” says Shue. 

According to Shue the void in the availability of a comprehensive suite of real estate career enhancing courses, mentoring, training, career information and support can now for the first time be addressed in an economical manner due to significant advances in technology. “Smart real estate brokers,” says Shue, “will grab this initiative to ensure that their agents will meet higher standards of expertise so as to better serve clients in the future,” he added.

During the last seven years RealtyU® has aggregated, authored and integrated the most comprehensive suite of educational courses and productivity tools in the industry. Available as a single turn-key service, brokers can obtain their own private label real estate career development website, assessable through secure login and password.  Agents receive unlimited free access to skills and productivity classes, can create their own customized real estate business plan as well as weekly marketing action lists, have access to an online dictionary, be able to surf a library of hundreds of tele-seminars, download marketing examples, industry reports and much more.  Agents will also be able to select from numerous licensing and CE courses as well as obtain many nationally recognized designations, while in the privacy of their broker’s website and in the comfort of their own home.

With “RealtyU Inside” power, similar to “Intel Inside” real estate brokers can now boost the clout of their real estate company’s educational services and increase the earning potential of the agents. To learn more about RealtyU’s new Real Estate Career Development Center for brokers contact Bill Shue at 949-600-7173 or at isucceedllc@gmail.com