Following Friday’s announcement of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) $418 million settlement of the Sitzer/Barnett lawsuit and its pledge to change its commission structure in the home sale process, a lot of people had the overwhelming urge to voice their...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Housing affordability – or, perhaps more accurately, the lack thereof – has quietly become a major issue in this year’s presidential election. I am using the word “quietly” because for too long the subject has not been talked about by the White...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: This past weekend, I saw an interview in DailyMail.com with the media-prominent financial advisor Suze Orman regarding property insurance premiums. Orman complained about the $28,000 quote that her insurer gave on her 2,100-square-foot oceanfront...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: One of the most famous quotes to come out of the early 19th century was made by John Marshall, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in his 1819 ruling on the McCulloch v. Maryland case: “The power to tax is the power to destroy.”...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: If you’ve been following the kudzu-level spread of lawsuits regarding real estate broker commissions, you might have noticed something interesting regarding the reaction to this litigation. Or to be more precise, the lack of reaction – especially...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Here’s a question for the real estate brokers out there: What are the business challenges that will flummox you this year? Okay, that’s not an original question on my part – the folks at Delta Media Group asked that question of more than 130...
Trump Expects Rate Cuts with Warsh as Fed Chief, But Warsh Stresses Fed Ind…
