Realtor

Noun

 * 1)  A person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner.
 * 2) * 1919: United States Senate, U.S. Housing Corporation. Hearings Before a Subcommittee
 * Mr. Shannon (witness): It was composed of an engineer, if I remember correctly, a town planner, a realtor, and occasionally an architect ...
 * 1) * 1922: Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
 * First place, we ought to insist that folks call us ‘realtors’ and not ‘real-estate men.’ Sounds more like a reg’lar profession.
 * 1) * 1975: Jerzy N Kosinski, Cockpit, New York, Grove Press, 1998, p.189
 * Intrigued by the prospect of an additional commission, the realtor hurriedly assured me he foresaw no problem in obtaining the lease.
 * 1) * 1997: Douglas A. Gray, Canadian home buying made easy, 2nd edition, p.72
 * The terms agent, broker, and realtor are often used interchangeably.
 * 1) * 2003: Gary Andrew Dresden, Confessions of a Gynecologist, Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, p.111
 * The realtor was like a carnivore, ready to spring. He was originally from New York and he seemed like the kind of guy who could smell a deal.

Synonyms

 * estate agent
 * real estate agent

Related terms

 * real estate

Thesaurus
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Etymology
Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, from real: (in real estate:) and -or:, based on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor:, creator:), to refer to real estate professionals who are members of the, a trade association in the United States.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 房地產經紀人, 房地产经纪人
 * French: agent immobilier
 * German: Immobilienmakler
 * Japanese: 不動産屋


 * Macedonian: агент за недвижности, агент за недвижнини
 * Russian: агент по продаже недвижимости, риэлтор
 * Spanish: agente inmobiliario

Anagrams

 * relator