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The real estate industry is rolling out new rules for paying buyers' and sellers' agents beginning Aug. 17 in a move that advocates say could lower overall commissions, but also put pressure on ...
The new rules “should lead to commissions falling 25% to 50%, which we view as benefiting online real estate brokers,” Seiberg wrote, but he warned it’s too early to declare “the end of ...
The Real Estate Consumer Protection Enhancement Act, which is meant to create a more transparent and buyer-friendly housing market, officially went into effect in New Jersey Aug. 1, resulting in ...
As of 2014, the Restatement's failure to address basic doctrines like adverse possession and real estate transfers had never been corrected over 75 years, three Restatements series, and 17 volumes. [2] In the 1970s, the Uniform Law Commission's project to standardize state real property law was a spectacular failure. [3] [4] [5]
Owners of commercial real estate benefited under the original rules of Proposition 13: If a corporation owning commercial property (such as a shopping mall) was sold or merged, but the property stayed technically deeded to the corporation, ownership of the property could effectively have changed without triggering Proposition 13's reassessment ...
A real estate license is an authorization issued by a government body to give agents and brokers the legal authority to represent a home seller or buyer in a real estate transaction. Real estate agents and real estate brokers are required to be licensed when conducting real estate transactions in the United States and in a small number of other ...
A federal jury in Kansas City ordered in October that the association and several brokerages, such as Keller Williams Realty and RE/MAX, pay $1.8 billion for intentionally inflating real estate ...
Equitable conversion is a doctrine of the law of real property under which a purchaser of real property becomes the equitable owner of title to the property at the time he/she signs a contract binding him/her to purchase the land at a later date.