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...
The United States has long seen itself as an open-for-investment free-market bastion. But concerns about national security–and some political grandstanding–...