Realtor Safety Report 2011 – violence against REALTORS on the rise

State of the industry
September marks the National Association of REALTORS, REALTOR Safety month and the industry is currently introspective about the topic, sharing tips and tricks of the trade. While we find it important to prevent crime against real estate professionals, we believe preparation is the best way to fine tune your gift of instinct. For the first annual Realtor Safety Report, we have teamed up with Moby and SAFE to investigate the rise in violence against real estate professionals.

Our industry has lost some amazing people this year, and countless others have been assaulted, and in conversation with leadership at Moby, we all felt that the actual crimes are not being analyzed in depth, rather associations are limited to sharing tips on heightening Realtor awareness.

We set out to see if we could learn more about crimes committed against real estate professionals in the past year and teamed up with Realtor safety expert Andrew Wooten, President of SAFE who said, “The past 12 months have been the most violent I have seen in twenty-six years working in the real estate industry. We’ve seen an increase in attacks, murders and suicides.”

Given Wooten’s note that violence is on the rise, and our mutual feeling with Moby that the why is not being investigated, we dug deeper to learn whether or not the crimes against Realtors had a common theme in an effort to discover something to look out for, something for Realtors to be aware of, for hope of a safer industry.

REALTOR Safety Report 2011