As the new year begins, brokerages, are more often teaming experienced professionals with entry level agents because deals in 2003 will be more complex, Livingston tells GlobeSt.com. "Clients are much more demanding and skills are much more specialized," says the founder/president of Realvest Partners Inc. in suburban Maitland, FL.

"The lone wolf model has been banished from public education and society and from the lexicon of most twenty-somethings," he adds. "The lone wolf caricature has been active since the (commercial real estate) profession came of age in 17th century England."

He says, "For most brokers, team concepts were almost anathema until just recently."