SPECIAL FEATURE
WOMEN TO WATCH
THINK REALTY SPOTLIGHTS JUST A FEW OF THE MANY DESERVING WOMEN WHO ARE SHAPING THE REAL ESTATE INVESTING INDUSTRY TODAY.
by Carole VanSickle Ellis
BACK IN 2011, TRULIA conducted a state-by-state analysis of female activ- ity in real estate, and it concluded that women literally painted the country pink insofar as every single state had “more women than men in the business of buy-
ing and selling homes for a living.” In that study, it became very evident that women were a rising force in the real estate sector, but with a very big caveat: Trulia’s study only considered real estate agents and only factored in women
listing properties and making sales. Not to diminish the gender-specific accom- plishments of female agents who were, in large part, listing more and selling more and higher than their male counter- parts, according to the study, but Trulia’s
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