The plaintiffs in a class action antitrust suit challenging the real estate industry’s commission structure took to the stand Wednesday and Thursday to make the case that the practice of homesellers paying buyer agents is “unfair.”
Source: Inman News
Under their thumbs: The enigmatic homesellers behind Sitzer | Burnett
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