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

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
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.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

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

Buying a home has become way too complicated

Tech Insider : Economy
Among a tangle of jungle plants and vines, a lane of houses appears, with eager real estate agents stand in front of the doorways. And the lane narrows, the horizons depicts the houses fragmenting, a lone orange house surviving in the large expanse of a starry night sky.
Two decades after companies like Zillow and Trulia revolutionized home search, the rest of the process remains pretty much the same.
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