Why do CRE brokerages refer to CRE agents as brokers? Also any info on Kidder Matthews?
Are “brokers” in CRE just real estate agents called brokers? Or do they actually have their broker license? Brokerages referring to their agents as brokers.. 

I’ve seen real estate agents ONLY as CRE brokers. It gets confusing 

Is it normal? 


Also anyone have info on kidder Matthews brokerage?
[{"id": "iqziwah", "text": "Yes, commercial agents call themselves brokers. \n\nI work at Kidder, happy to answer any questions.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ir011v3", "text": "So we can continue to look down our noses at the Resi agents.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ir0rnqp", "text": "You get a brokerage license or a sales person license in California because you represent the fiduciary interests of your clients. Most people have a salesperson license and someone at the shop has their brokerage license on the line if these kids screw up. If you are doing certain things, like being the executor of an estate or doing real estate trusts, you need a brokerage license.  \n\nRealtors is a licensed trademark of the national association of realtors, a primarily residential trade group. \n\nLet me help you out. Everyone is a broker and everyone is a Vice President, or a senior Vice President, or an executive Vice President in this business. \n\nKidder matthews is a franchise so some spots are weirdly really good, like Bay Area life sciences, and the rest is meh. \n\nThey are like nai. Not big enough to get inbound work and not small enough like lee and associates to offer really good splits.", "replies": [{"id": "ir12sv5", "text": "Their splits are 90/10 after you get 100k commission from any deal (even when you only get half of that). \nI ask the reason bc there are job postings and positions also that say real estate broker and then sales associate. It\u2019s confusing at times lol", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ir283p4", "text": "I think people outside the business generally use the term broker as they don\u2019t know the difference, however I always referred to myself as a CRE agent until I obtained my Brokers license. \n\nMost of the CRE guys I know also happen to have brokers licenses in some form or another (broker-salesperson, broker-officer, etc.), but that\u2019s anecdotal.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ir2znn7", "text": "Because we \u201cbroker\u201d deals", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]