• Who decides where listings show up, Zillow, Compass or the MLS?,Darryl Davis

    Who decides where listings show up, Zillow, Compass or the MLS?

    The briefs are in. The witnesses are done. A federal judge in Chicago now holds the question the whole industry keeps asking: who controls where a listing gets seen? Here is the part no ruling will answer for you. Zillow, Compass and Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) spent the first half of July tradi

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  • How Compass used technology to chart its course to the top,Brooklee Han

    How Compass used technology to chart its course to the top

    In 2017, Kyle Talbott and his wife Karen Talbott, who make up the Corcoran-brokered Talbott Team, were considering a move to Compass, after talk about the then 5-year-old brokerage’s technology had caught their attention. “We had a preview of the system that Compass started putting together back the

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  • Fed hawks are on the war path, sending mortgage rates higher,Logan Mohtashami

    Fed hawks are on the war path, sending mortgage rates higher

    Today the 10-year yield hit a yearly high of 4.74% and mortgage rates rose six basis points to 6.83% (as of this writing), as all the Federal Reserve hawks came out to play, and they were not taking a page from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s playbook. They want their voices heard loud and clear — and they

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