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

2,500+ Florida Condos Show Structural Damage, Just 5 Evacuated, State Report Finds

A new state report reveals that more than 2,500 Florida condominium and cooperative buildings showed signs of significant structural deterioration, and dozens were deemed "unsafe and uninhabitable"—yet only five were evacuated.  The 24-page report, released this week by the Florida Legislature’s Off

Forget Avocado Toast: Gen Z Is Taking on a New Kind of Debt—and It Could Lock Them Out of Homeownership

It starts innocently enough… You put the concert tickets on your credit card, your friend books the Airbnb, and someone else covers dinner.  Everyone promises to settle up later. Except “later” turns into next payday. Then next month. Before long, not only are you floating your friends, you’re carry

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