Tag: Redfin

More Brokerages Leave Powerful Realtor Group

Several of the country’s largest real estate brokerages, including Coldwell Banker, Century 21 Real Estate, Sotheby’s International Realty and Re/Max, are severing their allegiance to the National Association of Realtors, a powerful trade organization whose grip on the real estate industry appears to be loosening. The Chicago-based N.A.R. is the largest professional organization in the […]

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Redfin, the Online Real Estate Broker, Leaves the National Association of Realtors

N.A.R.’s grip on the housing industry is such that not all Redfin agents can be asked to cut ties just yet. In many major U.S. cities, including Houston, Las Vegas, Nashville and Phoenix, N.A.R. so thoroughly controls access to listing databases that, without it, Redfin explained in an email, “it’s impossible to be agent.” Still, […]

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