The average buyer’s agent commission was 2.37% for homes sold in the fourth quarter, according to a data analysis from Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN), a scant uptick from the 2.36% in the third quarter, when the new National Association of Realtors (NAR) commission rules took...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Do you recall the children’s tale of Chicken Little, where a barnyard bird who is hit on the head with an acorn that dropped from a tree limb? Chicken Little took the bonk to its noggin as evidence that the sky was falling and began to run around...
A new bill has been introduced in the Tennessee legislature that will limit contact by real estate developers making unsolicited inquiries to buy homes. WKRN.com reports the “Tennessee Homebuyer Harassment Protection Act” introduced by Sen. Charlane Oliver...
A bill that would codify federal disparate impact standards ahead of a possible rollback by President Trump of those standards has been introduced in the New York State legislature. The Gothamist reports the bill would ensure the disparate impact standard could be...
The president of a California mortgage company was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and causing the vehicular death of an 88-year-old man. ABC News reports that Serene Vernon, president of OCMBC Inc., was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and...
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