Real estate: the least trusted profession 

In 2006, Harris Interactive published a poll listing the most (and least) trusted professions. Doctors topped the list, and were "completely trusted" by only 50 percent of respondents. Real estate agents neared the bottom of list, again, barely beating out stockbrokers and lagging auto mechanics, lawyers and insurance agents.

Musings, press clippings and polls taken in the United Kingdom show estate agents are viewed in a similar light there.

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