Amidst all the furor and negativism surrounding the real estate industry, the mortgage banking business and the nation’s entire financial sector because of the alleged problems confronting the real estate industry, for the National Association of Realtors (and most of its members) there is one quite favorable offshoot. The hubbub about national banks entering the real estate brokerage business has been silenced. Quite obviously, the big boys of the banking industry have had their fill of the real estate profession – at least for the moment.