Real Estate Jobs and MBA Programs in Tennessee

For a real estate broker, Tennessee is a land of educational and employment opportunities. For real estate brokers in Tennessee, the job pool is currently 950 and climbing. A 14 percent bump in the number of jobs is projected to put the figure at 1,170 by 2016. This exceeds the national growth trend for real estate brokers. National projections show a rise of just eight percent over the next 10 years. Real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

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The income for real estate brokers is $27 per hour or $57,000 per year on average in Tennessee. Nationally, their income is $37 hourly or $77,000 per year on average.

Home to 6,296,254 people, Tennessee, known as Volunteer State, has grown by 10.7 percent in the last 10 years. The capital is Nashville. In 2008, the total number of jobs was 3,759,569 and the average annual income in Tennessee was $34,833, which is up from $34,156 the previous year. In Tennessee, the unemployment rate went up by 3.8 percentage points to 10.5 percent in 2009 from the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 19.6 percent, which is under the national average.

In Tennessee, the top employers are in bakeries manufacturing, bread product manufacturing, commercial bakeries and household cooking appliance manufacturing.

One of the many things Tennessee is known for, The Tennessee Aquarium is the largest facility of its kind to focus on fresh water habitat. It features 7,000 animals and 300 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Tennessee has many unique characteristics, but one fun fact in particular is the only person in American history to be both an Admiral in the Navy and a General in the Army was Samuel Powhatan Carter who was born in Elizabethton.

Real Estate

Real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

They regularly sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others and maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws.

They are required to negotiate with others and try to resolve differences. Also, they must manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources.

Real estate brokers should be able to articulate ideas and problems and listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, real estate brokers must be thorough and dependable and be reliable.