Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

31, 2023, the Gibson lawsuit pits three Missouri home sellers, Don Gibson, Lauren Criss and John Meiners, against National Association of Realtors , Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors , United Real Estate , Howard Hanna and Douglas Elliman. Its agents also offer buyer broker compensation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A home seller plaintiff in California filed an antitrust lawsuit on Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California, accusing the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 8, 2019, and the present.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

had no involvement in the issuance and or enforcement of NAR rules and that it did not impose those rules, including the Cooperative Compensation Rule, upon its franchisee brokerages or their affiliated independent contractor agents,” attorneys for Keller Williams wrote in the motion that both NAR and HomeServices joined.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just hours after securing a victory for his home seller clients in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit, Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, filed another class action antitrust lawsuit against some of the real estate industry’s biggest players, in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Compass agents are more likely to work in upper-echelon markets where buyers and sellers would work with agents, he said. Compass also requires their agents to ensure buy-side clients sign buyer-broker agreements. Reffkin cited the Seattle market as reason for optimism.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The lawsuit accuses its 29 defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 13, 2019, to the present. The lawsuit was filed on Monday by plaintiffs QJ Team, LLC. , a Texas-based homebuilder, and Five Points Holdings, LLC. , a holding company headed by DS News founder Mark Hulme, in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More home sellers on the East Coast are getting in on the commission lawsuit action. Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 4, 2019 and the present.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel concurred with a lower district court’s decision that HomeServices is not permitted to enforce arbitration agreements signed by seller clients of franchisees under its authority. billion in commissions they paid to buyers’ agents in the past eight years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Olufolajimi Abegunde, a Nigerian citizen living in Atlanta, and Javier Luis Ramos-Alonso, a Mexican citizen living in Seaside, California, were each convicted in 2019 in federal court in Tennessee of participating in a sophisticated international email-hacking scheme that bilked its targets out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. according to the company.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 10, 2023

So, if you’re purchasing a home that was built after August of 2004, it’s best to check with the seller and their agent about the drywall. Due to the potential financial implications, sellers may try to conceal the presence of defective drywall in their property in order to sell the home for a higher price.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 29, 2022

57 Weird Real Estate Agent Photos. Excerpt: Yes, many great real estate photos really capture the house. More Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos for Appraisers. But is it because sellers are rushing to list their homes? Data for those fixer homes (contractor specials). By Jonathan Miller.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

KEY RESOURCES: Study Of How Previous Pandemics Affected The Real Estate Market. Avoid 9 Costly Mistakes Sellers Make. From March to November of 2020, Americans made $1 trillion more than they did from March to November of 2019. 2020 ended favoring sellers. Do You Want To Buy A Home Now? Need To Sell? Jones, PhD.

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Raleigh Realty

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So whether you're a first-time home buyer or an experienced seller, stay tuned, because we’re going to tell you everything you need to know. In North Carolina, the buyer and seller are both responsible for a portion of the closing costs, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any wiggle room.In Table of Contents: How Much Are Closing Costs?

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Hood Homes Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Updated 9/23/2019; Originally published 4/9/2018. The Seller’s Disclosure is required by law, but ultimately not very useful Do your own due diligence on a property, including a third party inspection ! The seller is responsible to keep the seller’s disclosure updated. Texas Seller’s Disclosure Law.

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But one thing that jumped out at us because of course, we talk about real estate, fintech, which includes the wonderful world of proptech. billion has been invested in terms of funding in 2021, which exceeds the previous record in 2019 of $9 billion when extra $0.5 So there’s this real estate agent, right?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In 2019, White families had 8 times the wealth of Black families ($188,000 vs. $24,100), and five times more wealth than Hispanics ($36,100). With home equity accounting for a quarter of total U.S. The typical agency financed nearly 3,000 loans that averaged about $7,200 in DPA, amounting to about 4.5% of the average home price.

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