HomeServices of America
In a letter to agents and affiliates with Keller Williams, Gary Keller announced that the brand had negotiated a $70 million settlement in the class action suits that have rocked the industry and spawned a legion of copycat suits that could change the way residential real estate is bought and sold. The suits, referred to…
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It did not take long for a Kansas City jury to create a Halloween nightmare for real estate agents. The jury in the bombshell Sitzer/Burnett trial in Kansas City has found the National Association of Realtors, HomeServices of America, and Keller Williams guilty of colluding to inflate or maintain high commission rates through the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation…
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If you do something twice, it’s an annual event, right? Then it’s official. Real estate services behemoth HomeServices of America just wrapped up their second-annual ‘Stronger Together’ Conference – a swanky three-day soiree for top agents across the country. And it was fire. Not just because it was in Palm Desert, Calif., in August, but…
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Traditionally, real estate commissions work in a way that benefits all parties involved. In this scheme, home buyer commission fees are absorbed in the seller’s closing costs. However, last Friday, a federal court ruling threatening to rock the real estate world opened avenues for Missouri home sellers to sue buyer agents for commissions paid. The…
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In today’s world of real estate, success for a brokerage is ultimately determined by its agility. Its agility is determined by the vision of its leadership, and the leadership is put in place by a parent company that has risen to where they are by being agile and having visionary leadership themselves. Such is the…
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