real estate agents

Can Botox be a business expense? Maybe not, but for some luxury real estate agents, looking their best is just part of the job.

Stuart Thompson, reporter at the New York Times, tried selling his house using a chatbot instead of a realtor. The result? A higher sale price than he was expecting.

When mortgage rates dipped to 6%, experts anticipated a big year for homebuyers who had been sitting on the sidelines. But then came the war in Iran, which drove rates back up.

First-time buyers are going in one direction, while experienced buyers and sellers with equity are going in another.

The National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for February that exceeded economists’ expectations. But regional markets vary.

Properties sold through a dual agent tend to move faster, but for less money, research shows. In some states, the practice is illegal.

Agents typically split the 5% to 6% commission when a home is sold. Rates could go lower in the wake of class-action litigation.

Despite the world going digital, homebuying is still a highly analog process. James Rodriquez of Insider discusses the quest for a superapp.

The jurors found that the National Association of Realtors and a couple of big brokerages conspired to inflate commissions.

“The average days on market has gone from less than a week up to about 89 days,” says broker Amanda Pohlman of Keller Williams Living.