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Opinion
From small-town listings to picture-perfect homes, these holiday movies follow characters whose real estate decisions lead them home for the season
At its heart, the company is a brokerage, but with twice the number of coders and designers than advisers, it's more of a 'technology company' than Keller Williams and Compass
After months of beta testing, loanDepot's melloNow underwriting engine can analyze credit reports, detect fraud, and validate income and employment data without human assistance
Christina Grace, a California resident who sold her home in Marin County, filed suit Friday against NAR, Compass and Keller Williams, among others, claiming she paid $50K in commissions
Sean O’Dowd and his partners are betting they can generate healthy returns by buying single-family homes in the best school districts. They're buying hundreds of homes in just 21 ZIP codes
Fannie Mae said that computer vision enabled them to identify appraisal defects much more efficiently than other processes, including many that were previously impossible to triage
The company's longtime vice chairman died Tuesday. He was credited with building Berkshire Hathaway into a behemoth with an expansive portfolio of real estate and insurance companies
Surge in Q3 home prices pushes mortgage giants' conforming loan limits in high-cost housing markets to $1,149,825 for single-unit properties, and up to $2,211,600 for 4-unit properties
Opinion
According to compliance expert Summer Goralik, it's time to ask important questions, adopt new business protocols and engage in different types of conversations or scripts with clients
Opinion
More must be done to keep agents from paying for the National Association of Realtors' mistakes, NAR Accountability Project founder Jason Haber writes upon the conclusion of recent NAR NXT
The trade group installed its 2024 leadership during its annual NAR NXT conference. Kasper started her term 3 months early, after the resignation of former president Kenny Parcell
At a Friday board meeting, a member of NAR's board of directors predicted 'less authority' in 2024 as the embattled trade group's growing Executive Committee shoulders more responsibility
Compass' chief real estate strategist speaks this week at the Compass RETREAT on 'The Future of the Industry and Client Representation.' In a recent conversation, he shared his insights
At a forum for reps of 50 large brokerage firms, The Realty Alliance CEO Craig Cheatham asked why the nearly 1.6M-member trade group can't use its political influence for an 'existential threat'