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Zillow to list housing discrimination protections

Housing Wire

The app also lists any local laws protecting renters who use veteran’s benefits or Social Security insurance payments to pay their rent. The update expands Zillow’s Local Legal Protections tool, which was created in 2018 to help LGBT home searchers identify if their rights were protected by local laws in certain jurisdictions.

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The Proposed NYC "Pied-A-Terre Tax" Looks Catastrophic to NYC Real Estate

Miller Samuel

January: The closing of the $238,000,000 Manhattan condo sale in January (2015 contract). If you said you are going to impose a special surcharge on apartments that are worth more than $20 million, that would be perfectly legal,” said Peter L. November: Control of the New York State Senate flipped.

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Welcoming All Colors of the Rainbow to Homeownership

Will Springer Realtor

In 2006, the Legislature added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes for a range of areas from employment, real estate transactions and insurance coverage. The legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 helped to improve homeownership opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community. Overall, there are 1.2M

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RESPA enforcement is back — are you ready?

Housing Wire

For lenders and brokerages, the risks of LOs or agents overstepping are high. More vexing for lenders and brokerages is that RESPA rules remain unclear, despite recent guidance from regulators and the existing consent orders. That’s because real estate agents and loan officers are in survival mode and desperate to close new business.