The Housing Market Has New Rules. Realtors Are Evading Them.
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as posted by the channelLast year, a historic legal settlement resulted in sweeping rule changes that were supposed to lower the price of buying and selling a home across the country.
But those changes would cost real-estate agents money, and so those agents, it turns out, have found ways around the new rules.
Debra Kamin, who reports on real estate, explains how they did it.
GuestDebra Kamin () , a reporter for the real estate section of The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Home sellers and buyers have accused realestate agents of blocking lower fees () .
• The rule change was the result of a legal settlement last year by the National Association of Realtors () .
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