Realtor association program
CRS
Certified Residential Specialist
Matters to a sellerWho issues it
Residential Real Estate Council, a group affiliated with the National Association of Realtors
What it teaches
Listing systems, pricing, marketing, and running a residential sales business.
What an agent has to do to get it
Course work plus a production requirement. The agent has to show a real number of closed sales or a real dollar volume, verified, before the letters are granted. Yearly dues keep it active.
What it actually tells you
This is the one residential credential with a floor under it. An agent cannot simply pay for it. If somebody has it, they have actually closed homes. It still does not tell you if they closed homes like yours, in your city, this year.
Ask this instead
Show me your closed listings in my ZIP code in the last 12 months. Not company production. Yours.
Where I stand on it
I do not hold these letters. I studied the material behind a lot of them, because the subjects are real and a seller pays for what I do not know. I never bought the initials. If a credential is ever shown to get sellers more money, I will earn it that day and put it on this page myself.
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All designation, certification and program names on this page belong to the organizations that own them and are used here only to identify and discuss those programs. Nothing here is endorsed by, affiliated with, or approved by those organizations. Connor MacIvor does not hold the credentials described on this site and does not claim to. Requirements and program details change. Confirm current requirements with the issuing organization before relying on anything here.
Selling in the Santa Clarita Valley?
Sellers only. One agent, undivided focus, from the pricing conversation to the closing table.