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2. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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   Blockbusting was a business practice in the United States in which real estate agents and building developers convinced residents in a particular area to sell their property at below-market prices. This was achieved by fearmongering the homeowners, telling them that racial minorities would soon be moving into their neighborhoods.

3. Racial steering - Wikipedia

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   Racial steering refers to the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race. The term is used in the context of de facto residential segregation in the United States, and is often divided into two broad classes of conduct:

4. ‘Incredible distortions in our marketplace’: 45% of real ...

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   According to a monthly report by Alignable, 45% of real estate agents who own their firms said they had trouble paying rent on their offices in November. That’s 5% higher than in October and 10% ...

5. Real estate agent - Wikipedia

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   Flat-fee real estate agents charge a seller of a property a flat fee, $500 for example, [11] as opposed to a traditional or full-service real estate agent who charges a percentage of the sale price. In exchange, the seller's property will appear in the multiple listing service (MLS), but the seller will represent him or herself when showing the ...

6. Real estate agent commission rules change Saturday. Here's ...

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   For example, a buyer can offer to pay $850,000 for a house if the seller gives them $30,000 back, which the buyer would then use to pay their agent and other closing costs. Will these new rules ...

7. Buyer brokerage - Wikipedia

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   A buyer brokerage or buyer agency is the practice of real estate brokers and their agents representing a buyer in a real estate transaction rather than, by default, representing the seller either directly or as a sub-agent. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the most common term is buying agent.

8. Multiple listing service - Wikipedia

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   A multiple listing service (MLS, also multiple listing system or multiple listings service) is an organization with a suite of services that real estate brokers use to establish contractual offers of cooperation and compensation (among brokers) and accumulate and disseminate information to enable appraisals.

9. Principal–agent problem - Wikipedia

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   If the agent receives a fixed fee, the agent may nonetheless act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principal's interests. The agent may adopt this strategy if they believe the negotiation is a one-shot game. The agent may adopt a different strategy if they account for reputational consequences of acting against the principal's interests.