While some industry leaders feel that the MLS is both “anti-consumer” and “anti-competitive,” punishing brokers who dare to do things differently by levying fines against rule breakers, others in the industry share a very different view on the MLS. “The whole purpose of the MLS originally was to be an open marketplace where brokers could […]
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America Online, Inc. (AOL) was one of the most powerful companies in America. For millions of people, it was “The Internet.” While AOL produced some of its own proprietary content, its primary play was that of a master aggregator. It didn’t write most of the news, produce the sports scores or build the vast majority
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While Freddie Mac’s weekly mortgage rate survey may show rates moving slightly lower this week, today’s rates are actually higher than they were at the same time last week (6.76% vs 6.69%). Financial news continued to focus on yesterday’s announcement of Treasury buybacks after Secretary Bessent spoke on CNBC this morning, but today’s bump in
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