NAR puts out a report every year with large builder self reported average price per square foot build costs (including materials, excluding land).  

Or they think the NAR and MLS run the industry, and their 'brokerage' (and by extension, they...) are to "report all earnings," and somehow a PROSPECT (vs. a CLIENT) is somehow "brokerage property."

It's simply a designation from NAR that you joined and agree to their ethics code and pay a fee each year.Except for political lobbying of issues on capitol hill that affects our industry I haven't seen value in NAR for about a decade.Their magazine went from quality articles a decade ago to where most of the publication was nothing but paid ad after ad.

Judge Orders Analysis of Zillow ComputersDAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015Court Puts More Pressure on Zillow in Move, NAR LawsuitRealtor.com® operator Move Inc. and the National Association of REALTORS® filed suit against Zillow last year, claiming two top Move executives shared confidential information with Zillow before accepting high-placement positions there.

As REALTORS, we definitely pay a lot of money to the NAR to convince folks that selling their house on the MLS will result in the highest sales price, don't we?!  

I read an article in Det News in October and they were interviewing landlords who admit to it because they can't get their taxes reduced, so they buy them back at auction.

But, the NAR (National Association of Realtors) says that the average flip grosses $67,000 with a net of $15,000 after supplies, carrying costs, labor and closing costs and takes 6 months from finding a property to getting cash out and is the highest taxed for real estate.

The numbers beg to differ... there more active real estate agents today than ever before: 3 million active licenses in the US, about half of which are Realtors (a trademarked term that refers to an agent who is a paying member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the largest trade association in the US).

A 2020 DOJ vs NAR actiion made it so agents of buyers can no longer lie and say their services are free. 

Just like Congress, NAR "leaders" don't represent the interests of the people they claim to represent - they represent the big money interests, in this case Zillow.