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Anywhere Real Estate, Inc. RE/MAX, LLC; Jurors found that all the defendants in the case "knowingly and voluntarily" engaged in a conspiracy with the goal of "raising, inflating, or stabilizing broker commission rates paid by home sellers" by following and enforcing NAR's cooperative compensation rule.
Shares of Zillow have dropped nearly 20% since Thursday as investors feared that lower commission rates for agents could lead to less business for the real estate platform.
On Aug. 17, rules surrounding real estate commissions are set to change thanks to a legal settlement between the National Assn. of Realtors and home sellers. Proponents hope the new rules will ...
Changes may soon be on the horizon for real estate commission rates after a Kansas City jury determined – in a $1.8 billion judgement in October – that commissions had been inflated and that ...
[20] [21] Since the 2010 crisis, 62 million mortgages are held in the name of MERS, [22] and MERS has initiated thousands of foreclosures in the United States, claiming to be the mortgagee of record. Lawyers have contended in court that MERS has no legal right to initiate a foreclosure, because MERS does not own the loans in question.
Nevertheless, in an illiquid real estate market or if real estate prices drop, the property being foreclosed could be sold for less than the remaining balance on the primary mortgage loan, and there may be no insurance to cover the loss. In this case, the court overseeing the foreclosure process may enter a deficiency judgment against the ...
A change to the real estate commission structure is shaking the industry — and homebuilders and consumers appear to be the winners. This week, Compass agreed to pay $57.5 million to settle ...
Real estate owned, or REO, is a term used in the United States to describe a class of property owned by a lender—typically a bank, government agency, or government loan insurer—after an unsuccessful sale at a foreclosure auction. [1]