Real Estate Agents

Go Beyond Referrals To Find Real-Estate Agent

(Source: The wall Street Journal By Amy Hoak) – We’re in a buyer’s market, yet Americans who recently purchased a home are even less satisfied with their real-estate companies than last year.


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Real Estate Firm Implodes Amid Allegations of Improprieties

(Source: Herald Tribune By Michael Braga) – A former Century 21 Advantage franchise in the region is shutting down amid allegations that its financially troubled broker has been using money from escrow accounts to pay agent commissions.


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Real Estate Agents Shoulder Small-Business Owner’s Burden

(Source: By ALAN J. HEAVENS The Philadelphia Inquirer) – Eight out of 10 real estate agents are independent contractors, not salaried or commissioned employees.


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Real Estate Agent Faces Drug Trafficking Charge

(Source: Daily Commercial MILLARD K. IVES) – One of Lake County’s most successful real estate agents has been jailed under a half-million-dollar bond for trafficking in methamphetamine, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said.


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Evidence In Dumpster Indicates Foul Play In Florida Woman’s Disappearance

(Source: Nancy Grace) – Police continued searching waterways and wetlands near the home of a missing Pembroke Pines real estate agent Tuesday after finding evidence that they say suggests foul play.


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Many Real Estate Agents are Small Businesses, Facing Costs and Uncertainties

(Source: Philly By Alan J. Heavens) – Eight out of 10 real estate agents are independent contractors, not salaried or commissioned employees.


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Virginia Real Estate Agent Sentenced for Fraud

(Source: Bloomberg Business Week) – A Richmond, Va. real estate agent and investor has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for a $2.4 million mortgage fraud scheme.


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Title Insurer Pays $4.5 million to Settle Kickback Allegations

(Source: Wall Street Journal By Alan Zibel) – Title insurance firm Fidelity National Financial Inc. will pay $4.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to real-estate agents who referred business to the company.


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Fort Worth Real Estate Agent Facing Jail Time in 2002 Case

(Source: Star Telogram By Darren Barbee) – A Fort Worth real estate agent is facing up to five years in prison for faking rental histories and paycheck stubs for home buyers to obtain HUD loans, according to a federal criminal [...]


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Texas Real Estate Agent Convicted in 1986 Killing

FORT WORTH, Texas (Source: The Associated Press) — A Dallas real estate agent who allegedly posed as a buyer has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1986 killing of a woman at her for-sale home.


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Agents and Owners Turn Increasingly Pessimistic on Values

(Source: By Steve Cook Real Estate Economy Watch) – Half of agents and 42 percent of homeowners in a second quarter survey expect home values to decrease or stay the same through the end of the year. Thirty-eight percent of [...]


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Home Warranty Fees Coming Under Scrutiny

(Source: The Washington Post By Kenneth R. Harney) – The settlement of a major class-action lawsuit is shedding new light on a controversial real estate practice that home buyers and sellers typically know little about: fees paid to real estate [...]


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Pioneering real estate agent killed in motorcycle crash

(Source: WLBT-TV by Roslyn Anderson) A motorcycle accident near the reservoir Monday claimed the life of a prominent real estate agent. Ann Jensen moved from New York to Jackson in 1969 and soon began changing the local landscape for women. [...]


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Discouraged by Scheming Real-Estate Agents

WASHINGTON (Source: MarketWatch By Lew Sichelman) — Question: I’m trying to buy my parents’ house after taking care of my mother for eight years, until her death three years ago at age 93. My dad died more than 20 years [...]


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Phoenix-Area Real-Estate Agents Subdued, Report Says

(Source: The Arizona Republic by J. Craig Anderson) – An apparent breakdown in the basic economic law of supply and demand has shaken Phoenix-area real-estate agents’ confidence in the local housing market, according to a report issued Thursday. Despite several [...]


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What Do Realtors Do When They Are Not Out Selling Real Estate?

(Source: Clinton Patch) – Happy summer to everyone! I am glad to see the sun and the beach and flowers.


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Checkout Lane: Your Real Estate Agent Can Make or Break a Sale

(Source: By Shaunna Gately GateHouse News Service) – Whether you are buying or selling a house, getting a good real estate agent can save you a lot of time and frustration.


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The World’s Number One Real Estate Agent Just Filed For Bankruptcy

(Source: Business Insider Robert Johnson) – John McMonigle claims to be the world’s number one real estate agent. With $2.5 billion in residential sales over the past six years, this 46-year-old realtor may well have been.


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Real Estate Agents Now Renting Hard to Sell Homes

SPOKANE -(Source: NWCN Katie Utehs) – National home prices hit another low. The Standard and Poor’s Case Shiller Index shows home prices in major cities are at their lowest level in nine years. Prices are down 33% from the 2006 [...]


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Newark Man Admits to Sexually Threatening Real Estate Agents

DELAWARE -(Source: Newark Advocate) – A Newark man admitted to making sexually threatening phone calls to Westerville-area Realtors.


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