This article is the personal opinion of MT Realty Advisors, a Long & Foster team, and does not reflect the views of Long & Foster, it's ownership or affiliates. By now, most of us have read the mainstream headlines around the proposed settlement between the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the Plaintiffs in the Sitzer Burnett case.
While opinion pieces abound, they tend to repeat a click-bait narrative almost as though they’ve been written with the same AI copy. “Realtor commissions are going away”, “Consumers stand to gain a windfall of savings”, and “real estate is forever changed”. The devil is in the details, and many of the articles arguably fall short of details. Anyone who knows our team’s approach to real estate – informed by my past career in hedge and private equity funds – knows we use data to shape our real estate outlook. Get the data, and let the data do the talking. Seems simple enough. Since analytics are noticeably absent from most opinion pieces, allow me to shed light on the recent turn of events using data while trepidatiously accepting the challenge of compressing this synopsis in a ten-minute read to accommodate our typical attention span. Start your clocks! This article will get to the heart of answering the very pointed and personal question we are all asking. “How does this news potentially impact my investment in the housing market?” At the end of this article, I’ll dive into some of my predictions you may or may not find a repetitious read. First, let me get into the story that no one is telling. It starts like this, “once upon a time…”
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