Real-estate class action lawsuit against realtors: Attorney says it costs homebuyers $60 billion per year in commissions
A series of court challenges seek to upend longstanding real estate industry practices that determine the commissions agents receive on the sale of a home — and who foots the bill. A federal jury in one of those cases on Tuesday ordered the National Association of Realtors along with some of the nation’s biggest real estate brokerages to pay almost $1.8 billion in damages, after finding they artificially inflated commissions paid to real estate agents. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2019 on behalf of 500,000 home sellers in Missouri...
