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...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $9 million settlement with Ameris Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ: ABCB) to resolve allegations that the lender engaged in redlining against predominantly Black and Hispanic communities in...
A dubious DOJ investigation into an irrepressible visionary, a property purchase mystery solved and the return of a glorious downtown Detroit mural that Dan Gilbert tried to hide. From the wild and woolly world of real estate, here are the hits and misses for this...