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Christie’s International Real Estate affiliate expands in Michigan

Birmingham, Michigan-based brokerage @properties REMI Christie’s International Real Estate is opening its 10th office in the state in July by expanding into the lakeside resort town of Traverse City. The brokerage was launched in 2021 by Detroit-area natives Eric Walstrom and Alex Irrer, and it has grown from an initial operation of two offices. Leading […]

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A financial planner shares her journey to understanding reverse mortgages

Rachel Gustafson serves as a certified financial planner with the Financial Investment Team, a firm based in Portland, Oregon. Over the course of a 12-year career in the field, she has a specialty for helping her clients figure out the best and most efficient ways to retire. When reverse mortgages first showed up on her

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Are settlement rules pushing down agent commissions? New survey says the opposite

Few events in recent real estate history have rattled the industry more than the antitrust lawsuits filed against major brokerages and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), accusing them of artificially inflating agent commission rates. NAR settled the Sitzer-Burnett case for $418 million and agreed to rules that the plaintiffs believed would help bring down

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