Bidding wars, record mortgage rates and lots of Keller Williams news dominated the conversation, and Inman’s headlines, in 2020.
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- The inventory surge is sputtering. See how your market stacks up
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- ‘He didn’t even say he was sorry’: Brooklyn investor gets prison time for 12-year deed fraud scheme
- Falling home prices leave nearly 1 million Americans ‘underwater’
- NAR’s Kevin Sears: We need to ‘show everybody that we as Realtors are pro-consumer’
- 15% of homebuyers ‘ghosted’ homesellers in September
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- Realty 1 Georgia adopts new name after joining Century 21 network
- Buy now; hesitation creates opportunity, Barbara Corcoran says
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- Douglas Elliman dragged back to court over wrongful termination allegations
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- Zillow may be surrounded, but it’s not checkmate just yet
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- New Opendoor CEO’s plan: ‘Buy more good homes and get more good sellers through our funnel’
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