Real-estate agents may be forced to charge home buyers less, thanks to a new $1.8 billion verdict

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A judge's gavel and a house.
Beyond the eye-popping damages, a recent verdict against the National Association of Realtors and the country's biggest brokerages could also fundamentally change how we buy and sell homes.

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On Tuesday afternoon at a courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri, the collective nightmare of the real-estate industry became reality.

Yes, it's possible to get a 4.8% mortgage today — here's how

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A construction worker eyeing the wooden skeleton of a new-construction house wearing a hard hat and tool belt while holding plans.
Homebuyers may have better luck getting a low mortgage interest rate if they buy a new-construction house.

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From rates to inventory, here's where the US housing market stands in 4 charts

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The housing market in the US has been hobbled by decades-high mortgage rates and stubbornly high prices.

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America's cities are vying for a hot new title: best place to ride out the coming dystopia

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Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.
Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.

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A tech worker shared his 'housewarming registry' online, and people he'd never met bought him $600 worth of plates and plant stands

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A screenshot of John Anderson's housewarming registry on Amazon.

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UK household wealth has tanked and it's a sign of what could happen in the US

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Properties for sale in Scotland.
Properties for sale in Scotland.

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Brace for 8% mortgage rates to drag the US housing market into a 1980s-style recession, Wells Fargo warns

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The Federal Reserve's aggressive interest-rate hikes could trigger a 1980s-style recession for the US housing market, according to Wells Fargo.

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Janet Yellen made the worst mistake in Treasury history when she failed to lock in cheap debt, elite investor Stanley Druckenmiller says

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

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10 smaller US cities with booming tech scenes

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Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Wealthy movers to South Florida have pushed the real-estate market to new highs. See 6 homes for sale only the rich can afford.

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The front of a home in Miami Beach.

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