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Gary Keller, Bob Goldberg, Gino Blefari depositions on commissions shared with the jury

Housing Wire

The second day of the trial for the Sitzer/Burnett bombshell class action buyer broker commission class action lawsuit included plenty of insights into how the plaintiffs are approaching what is expected to be a battle royal. When you reduce the commission, you reduce the incentive for that agent to bring a buyer to your house.

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Commission lawsuit: HomeServices files motion for judgment as a matter of law

Housing Wire

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The second week of the Sitzer/Burnett class-action buyer broker commission antitrust lawsuit kicked off with a bang. She also said that HomeService’s guidelines state that listing brokers need to compensate buyer brokers only when the property is in the MLS. Goldberg testified that while there are roughly 2.5

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Are you prepping for worst-case commission lawsuit outcomes?

Housing Wire

With the scrutiny of The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and multiple lawsuits concerning how buyers’ brokers get paid, many brokers say it feels like an all-out war on the real estate industry. billion in commissions they paid to buyers’ agents in the past eight years.

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

This means all those men and women since 2012 who have been saying its housing 2008 all over again on their YouTube , Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets simply don’t have the proper training to talk about housing economics. crash, especially from 2012-2019. It hasn’t worked since 2012 for a reason.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” It re-emerged in the AI scene in October 2012. It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses. will identify which buyers require immediate contact from the listing agent.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for December 2021

Lamacchia Realty

He is skilled in many facets of Real Estate including both Buyer & Seller Representation, Commercial, Investment, Relocation & Luxury Properties. To learn more about Sarah, click here: Sarah Schouler Joselin Malkhasian is a REALTOR® working with both buyers and sellers in the Greater Boston Area.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for December 2022

Lamacchia Realty

Lisa Hayford began her real estate career as a residential sales agent in 2012 and has created an impressive business that continues to dominate in the markets she serves. Accordingly, Lisa was named a real estate All-Star in the Northshore Magazine for being able to expertly assist both buyers and sellers on the North Shore.