We live on a nice medium priced street here in Mississauga. One agent sold 7 homes for an average of 1 million per sale. Times that amount of sales by 5% and he took home gross, $350,000.00. He owns the brokerage as well. By our reckoning each sale was over asking and the longest sale took two weeks. We know he staged a couple of homes at about $3,500.00 per home. All of his sales were as a result of referrals because he told us. 
Did this agent merit a $350,000 payday for this amount of work? Clearly not. I'll give the agent credit for working his contacts but all of his sales were to Asian families and this agent was not Asian. But he does advertise in Asian newspapers. Some people are lucky because of circumstances. It's been this way in Mississauga for 35 years. Used to be the fastest growing city in Canada. Now its almost built out so real estate sales are mostly second or third upgrades. Talk about good timing.