The Department of Justice has made its first foray into the growing number of lawsuits regarding real estate commissions by asking a federal judge in Boston to reject a consumer settlement between a group of home sellers and a multiple listing service. Reuters is...
The MBA chief’s calling out the Biden administration’s housing policies, the Toronto mayor’s contemptuous defense of a massive residential property tax and an unlikely setting for weddings. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the Hits and Misses for...
Clever Real Estate has launched Clever Title, a title and escrow company. According to the St. Louis-based company, Clever Title’s online portal offers real-time tracking, online document storage, and full digital encryption. Tony Chahal, formerly senior vice...
California existing home sales reached their highest level in six months during January, according to new data from the California Association of Realtors (CAR). Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted...
Single‐family housing starts in January were at a rate of 1.004 million, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 4.7% below the revised December figure of 1.054 million. Privately‐owned housing...
Two months after he jacked up the listing price of his Beverly Hills mansion from $70 million to $80 million, British music icon Rod Stewart cut the asking price to $72 million. Mansion Global reported the 33,000-square-foot property was first listed last June. When...