The 6% Real Estate Broker Commission Could Soon Be Gone. Here's Why

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> NAR owns the trademark to the word Realtor, with only dues-paying members permitted to use the title professionally.

I don't know whether i should be surprised that someone managed to trademark a job title or that there don't seem to be that many job titles held hostage under trademark law.

It's a made-up word, specifically intended as a trademark for the NAR. The surprising thing is that people willingly adopted the trademark to describe themselves. Maybe it's similar to people calling themselves "Googlers".

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