Buyers aren't crazy about signing a three-month contract just to see homes for sale - and neither are the buyer-agents. Every problem with home sales will get solved by cutting out the buyer-agent, even though it's bad for buyers....
Of the 3,122 detached-home listings in San Diego County, 672 of them (22%) include the word 'nestled'. It is followed closely by 'dream', which is in 19% of the listings. If you don't want to be replaced by robots, don't be so robotic.
A reporter from the New York Times accuses realtors of doing work-arounds to the NAR Settlement and steering buyers away from for-sale-by-owners. The 30-minute podcast tells stories about a realtor who started her own website to display the commission rates she was...
Robert Reffkin was in San Diego yesterday to talk Compass. He will be visting all the Compass regional offices to assure agents that we are on the right track. We're on the right track. Private Exclusives are permitted in the Clear Cooperation Policy. Nobody disputes...
They're not going to give it away! Amid growing economic uncertainty, recession fears, and continuing tariff turmoil, there's a glimmer of hope among homeowners who say that they are still feeling very optimistic about getting top dollar for their properties—with many...
https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/nar-ceo-nykia-wright-meets-with-house-speaker-mike-johnson-congressional-leaders We are in Dallas for two days only and we'll be back home tonight. We came to the inaugural Summit Event here last year and it was jammed...
The National Association of Realtors published their support of the Clear Cooperation Policy yesterday, and added a change they called Delayed Marketing Exempt Listings. As usual, they are trying to make everyone happy, resulting in nobody being happy. They can't even...
One year after the National Association of Realtors agreed, as part of a legal settlement, to change a key rule on real estate commissions — a rule that had long upheld a tradition of commissions between 5 and 6 percent, little has changed. What was hailed as a...
The Compass CEO, Robert Reffkin, is a vocal opponent of the Clear Cooperation Policy. Those in the business call him names and say his only motivation for opposing the CCP is to promote in-house sales. The point that gets trampled over is that consumers and agents...
