by Beth McGuire | Oct 26, 2023 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Real gross domestic product (GDP), the most accurate measure of a country’s broad economic growth, defied expectations in the third quarter, showing the economy grew at an annualized pace of 4.9%, according to the latest “advance” estimate from the U.S. Commerce...
by Beth McGuire | Oct 25, 2023 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
After a 6.9% decrease last week and hitting a 28-year low, mortgage applications dipped another 1.0% from one week earlier, according to the latest Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) for the week ending October 20, 2023....
by Beth McGuire | Oct 24, 2023 | Agents, Best Practices, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
KANSAS CITY—After the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) kicked off their defense in the Burnett class-action commission trial yesterday, Mike Ketchmark, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, took his best shots against NAR CEO Bob Goldberg—who gave as good as he got...
by Beth McGuire | Oct 20, 2023 | Agents, Best Practices, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier |
The Burnett case targeting buyer agent commissions hasn’t even wrapped up its first week of trial in Kansas City yet, but some people haven’t waited for the outcome to proactively make changes to so-called “cooperative compensation”—changes that are starting to seem...
by Beth McGuire | Oct 20, 2023 | Agents, Best Practices, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
KANSAS CITY—Tempers flared among legal teams yesterday as plaintiffs’ lead attorney Mike Ketchmark sought to drive home claims of economic conspiracy when he called expert witness Texas A&M professor and economist Dr. Craig Schulman to the stand on day four of the...