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A groundbreaking $418 million settlement announced Friday by the powerful National Association of Realtors is set to usher in the most sweeping reforms the American real estate market has seen in ...
The seismic settlement announced by the National Association of Realtors earlier this month has not yet been approved, but it is already sending shockwaves through the real estate industry.
In a statement to CNN, an NAR spokesperson said it was “pleased that the Court has preliminarily approved the settlement because it is in the best interests of all parties and class members.”
The settlement comes months after a federal jury in Missouri found the NAR and two brokerages liable for $1.8 billion in damages for conspiring to keep agent commissions artificially high. The NAR ...
The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 was introduced in the United States Congress on September 25, 2007, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2007. This act offers relief to homeowners who would have owed taxes on forgiven mortgage debt after facing foreclosure .
The settlement must get court approval, then if approved any changes would go into effect in mid-July, NAR said in a March 19 news release. ... the rule shake-up has been met with some positive ...
In the United States, most homes [1] are bought and sold using real estate agents affiliated with the National Association of Realtors (NAR), an industry lobbying group with over 1.5 million individual members. [2] NAR permits only its members to call themselves Realtors.
The NAR has long said having sellers pay the buyer’s broker as well makes it cheaper in terms of upfront costs and more accessible for homebuyers to hire an agent.