The Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) is not technically dead. It is still a rule in NAR’s rulebook, still officially binding on every member MLS. But now, the rule is being ignored at scale. Brokerages are operating around it. MLSs are quietly declining to enforce it. And, in the last two weeks of April and the…
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Rate has added Scottsdale, Arizona-based loan originator Kelsey Marquardt to the company, the Chicago-based national mortgage lender announced Friday, as competition for high-producing loan officers continues across the mortgage industry. Marquardt, who has generated more than $85 million in loan production, joins Rate after a three-month stint at Universal Lending Corp. She previously built her…
Redfin has launched Redfin Early Access, a new search category on Redfin.com and its app that surfaces pre-market and “coming soon” listings that are not yet broadly available on other major real estate sites, the company said in an announcement Monday. The new category aggregates two kinds of inventory: Redfin Coming Soon listings that appear…
A buyer’s agent reached out to me recently with a situation that is happening in markets across the country — and most agents don’t realize they have both the right and the obligation to push back. Here’s the scenario: before our buyer’s agent — we’ll call her Susan — could present her offer, the listing agent [we’ll call her Betty] informed…