• NAR faces new antitrust suit over alleged steering,Brooklee Han

    NAR faces new antitrust suit over alleged steering

    A broker in Florida is suing the National Association of Realtors (NAR), along with state and local associations and MLSs, for alleged antitrust violations and steering homebuyers into using buyer’s agents.  Filed late last week by Jorge A. Zea in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of

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  • Ex-GSE risk chief makes case for Fannie-Freddie merger,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    Ex-GSE risk chief makes case for Fannie-Freddie merger

    Clifford Rossi speaks from the vantage point of someone who has been inside the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). In different periods during the 1990s and 2000s, he served as a senior financial economist at Fannie Mae and as senior director of single-family risk management at Freddie Mac. Ro

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  • First American launches monthly rent automated valuation model,Jonathan Delozier

    First American launches monthly rent automated valuation model

    First American Data & Analytics has released an automated valuation model that estimates monthly rent for residential properties nationwide. The product — called Procision Rental AVM — updates daily on roughly 100 million properties, including single-family homes, condominiums and homes in planned-u

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