The decline in sales took a chunk out of overall business activity for REALTORS® as well as their incomes in 2014, a new member survey shows.

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NAR says it’s a good first step that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has said it will be sensitive to entities’ good faith effort to meet all the new closing requirements.

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The Millennials, aged 20 to 34, are viewed by many housing analysts as the key to boosting home ownership — so where are they flocking to?

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Freddie Mac is offering mortgage relief options to borrowers in Texas and Oklahoma who have been affected recently by the massive amounts of rainfall and flooding throughout the states.

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Rental prices have skyrocketed so much in San Francisco that city supervisors recently tried to implement a 45-day moratorium on luxury housing in the city’s Mission District.

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The top court in Massachusetts yesterday affirmed a lower court decision that real estate practitioners may be classified as independent contractors, not employees, handing the real estate industry an important win on an issues that has come under challenge in recent years.
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