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Skills employers ask for in sales jobs in real estate

In 1,834 sales jobs in real estate in the SkillDrift job index, the most requested skill is Negotiation, named in 47.1% of postings. Sales follows at 29.1%, then Lead generation at 28.8%.

Based on 1,834 job postings in the SkillDrift job index, read on 1 October 2026.

Most requested

The 8 skills named most often

Each share is the part of all sales jobs in real estate that name the skill. One posting usually names several skills, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

  1. 1Negotiation47.1%864 of 1,834 postings
  2. 2Sales29.1%533 of 1,834 postings
  3. 3Lead generation28.8%528 of 1,834 postings
  4. 4Client relationship management24.2%444 of 1,834 postings
  5. 5Real estate sales23%421 of 1,834 postings
  6. 6Business development13.8%253 of 1,834 postings
  7. 7CRM13.7%252 of 1,834 postings
  8. 8Market research8.2%151 of 1,834 postings

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Where these numbers come from

The SkillDrift job index collects live job postings and reads the skills each one asks for. This page counts the postings in the sales role group within the real estate industry, and shows the share that name each skill. Skills appear as employers write them, so close variants such as Excel and MS Excel can both appear, because a posting may use either. The page is refreshed from the index, and the date above shows the last read.

FAQ

Questions people ask

What is the most requested skill in sales jobs in real estate?

Negotiation. It is named in 47.1% of the 1,834 sales jobs in real estate in the SkillDrift job index on 1 October 2026.

How many job postings is this based on?

1,834 postings, read from the SkillDrift job index on 1 October 2026. Each share is the number of postings that name the skill, divided by all postings in this group.

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