The Trump administration is demanding access to the ongoing renovation project at the Federal Reserve’s headquarters as part of its ongoing campaign against the central bank’s chairman, Jerome Powell. The New York Times reports Russell T. Vought, the director of the...
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 US Department of Justice (DOJ) told the US Supreme Court that it never committed not to reopen its investigation into the National Association of Realtors (NAR) despite its 2020 consent decree that settled a probe of the organization. According to a Law360 report,...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Dark clouds have formed around the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy, with many prominent figures within the real estate industry calling for it to be jettisoned. However, it seems like an equal number of prominent...
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...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
