An acute lack of affordable homeownership opportunities, another lawsuit challenging broker commissions and a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house that changed hands for the first time since 1955. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the hits and misses...
The level of pending home sales in November was unchanged from October and down by 5.2% from one year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings...
As the National Association of Realtors (NAR) rings out its problem-plagued year, there is a report of two new endeavors to create a national-level trade association for real estate professionals. The New York Times reported Jason Haber, a Compass real estate broker...
For the second time in a month, a lawsuit has been filed in Texas claiming the state’s real estate industry is engaged in a “conspiracy” related to broker commissions. The new putative class action lawsuit – Martin, et al., v. Texas Association of Realtors, Inc., et...
Existing home sales inched up in November, breaking a five-month streak of consecutive declines, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Total existing home sales rose by 0.8% from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.82 million in...