That's because most of those hours are inefficient A lot of time spent coordinating meetings and walking with people showing the things they could see/read them

That's because most of those hours are inefficient A lot of time spent coordinating meetings and walking with people showing the things they could see/read themselves. In most cases you only really need realtor at the very end, after you spend lots of hours seeing or showing homes, and now it's time to make the deal. It's not 1980s anymore, you can use internet to search for places yourself or to advertise your property yourself. If you remove those inefficient hours, there should be 5x less realtors but they might earn more and do better job.