A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The other day, I saw a headline from a Connecticut newspaper that declared: “TikTok star Nara Smith, model Lucky Blue Smith go house hunting in CT.” And my reaction to the headline was: “Who and who?” We don’t do a great deal of celebrity-related...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: On Friday, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc., the Richardson, Texas-based property management software company, which was accused of being at the center of a grand cabal of...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: We are two days into what some media outlets have dubbed as the “seismic shift” in the real estate world – specifically, the practice changes that were part of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) $418 million settlement in the Sitzer/Burnett...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: It is extremely rare for a government agency to publish anything that is even vaguely negative in connection with green energy, which makes last Thursday’s announcement by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding solar financing...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: President Biden teeter-tottered back into the spotlight today with a ghostwritten article and a TelePrompTer speech that outlines his ideas to “reform” the Supreme Court. (In case you’re wondering what this has to do with real estate, be patient and...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last week, I came upon two posts on X (formerly Twitter) that called out real estate agents who took to social media to share vile thoughts. The conservative-focused account Libs of TikTok called out Colleen Payne, who identified herself as a...