Is Agent Ranking Really NAR’s Job?

Had to put my 2 cents in since I read your post.  Was saving it when I had time.  Wow, lotsa comments on a very powerful topic.  I"m sure you've read a lot of these comments and the consensus is most likely, "they shouldn't treat us like Redfin!"

Short answer: No.

I will succeed no matter what NAR, R dot com, Move, trulia, Zillow etc decides to do.

They may anger me but that just adds to my motivation to succeed.

But stop me?

Never!

Slow me down?

Maybe but only temporarily.

Do not go on extended vactions. Imagine taking some time off and seeing your ranking drop.

Thank you for bringing this up, Laura! Always an important subject!

This is why forums like ActiveRain are all the more important. Blog, blog, Blog!

I'm with those who think that we pay the same fee to NAR and should be treated equally. If they want to give realtors who already have the most listings even more listings, I'd call it discrimination.

Bad idea.   Number of transactions alone doesn't tell the whole story. 

There was an article by Lani Rosales on AGBeat this week about it. She cites the dissenting agents as appearing "anti-consumer" but acknowledges in her OpEd many of the issues with NAR we reference here. It's probably too late to pull the horses back into the barn, but if the site is to go national, NAR's members should push for disclosures about the system, how teams are ranked, what data doesn't include (such as new home sales, FISBO transactions, etc.) and a paragraph on quantity vs quality. Site visitors will not think of these things without prominent disclosures. Also, there should be a process for agents to submit error corrections. 

True Isaacs team. Yes this is true, BUT why should I have to spend a good deal of time, energy and money to show why the problem occured. I should never have to fill out more documents on this sort of thing to provide them with accurate info when they are the ones that caused the problems. I pay dues just like the rest!

Like a credit union run by it's members and with rates lower than a bank, everything kept small, tight, connected it works. But when David becomes Goliath you see a shift of the members working for HQ and not the other way around, the tilt light comes up and iceberg ahead bells start ringing. You fix it by creating a big local grassroots marketing blaze first. Your state MLS pulls back so the folks after your state get your state and not herded into a big box of chocolates of your own listings brought to the party for free. And then like a plantation owner a few years back, keeps you under his thumb and whip cracks to squeeze you for any profit. Runaway from that and take a different approach from your end up, not the top down.

Really disappointed in NAR for this idea. It's just wrong on so many levels. 

I was a bit dissapointed paying for the membership in Realtor.com and seeing that my listings were showing what the buyer paid for it, etc. I am dissapointed as well extremely. This is not helping my sellers at all. 

Great post. We should petition the removal of the items. Seriously!!! 

We all need to keep up fighting the good fight. Looks like a lot of agents do not like this "service" at all. It's up to all of us to get involved and keep balance.

~Angelia

Think on good things 

We don't have that here in Canada... yet and hopefully never. Numbers do not define a great agent. I can't see how this would benefit anyone especially the seller who may be disappointed with performance expectations. 

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There are so many holes in this idea, I can't imagine whose idea this was, but certainly one more hole is in their head.  I work alone and yet I compete with an agent that has a team of 10.  The team is as big or bigger than some brokerages.  But, ALL sales go in the name of the team leader.  Yet, their sales per team member is less than my individual production.  They do quite fine without Realtor.com making her, the team leader, as a giant individual.

Funny thing, we all pay for NAR services equally, but they try to rank us differently.