A slippery definition of “reopening,” an unlikely grant and a merger’s messy failure. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Dec. 9-13. Miss: An Unsettled Settlement. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)...
The New York Times has published another investigative feature on the National Association of Realtors (NAR), this time focusing on the political donations of its nonprofit affiliate, the American Property Owners Alliance. Unlike NAR’s political action committee that...
An outrageous claim to a landmark property, an overlap of real estate and politics, and a tuneful agent begins his new job. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of May 20-24. Miss: Beyond Belief. The weirdest real...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: As the proverbial dust is settling on the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) $418 million settlement, a growing number of voices are starting to complain loudly that the changes being enacted on the home selling structure will not bode well for...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed:Â Ever since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced its $418 million settlement to settle the charges raised in the Sitzer/Burnett case, there has been a flood of bizarre articles, interviews and opinion pieces in the mainstream media...
Mortgage Rates Reach 7.40%, Highest Since November 2023
