On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) published a Consumer Alert with three recommendations to help buyers and sellers with the new Realtor rules and practices going into effect on August 17 due to the NAR settlement.
Today, the Consumer Federation of America released “Proposed Criteria for Evaluating Home Seller Contract Forms,” which outlines recommendations for new real estate forms.
In a letter to Colorado Association of Realtors CEO, Marcia Waters of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies brought up concerns about buyer representation forms, specifically in regards to agents misrepresenting the forms as required for consumers.
Today, the Consumer Federation of America released “Proposed Criteria for Evaluating Home Buyer Contract Forms,” which includes four criteria for understandable contracts and 11 criteria to ensure fairness to homebuyers.
On July 2, 2024, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) released its Report on C.A.R. Proposed Seller Listing Agreement, authored by Tanya Monestier, who also wrote the report, released June 25, on the C.A.R. Proposed Buyer Representation agreement.
A new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) highlights the benefits of recent changes in real estate agent compensation resulting from the uncoupling of real estate agent commissions.
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) issued a report titled, “A Surfeit of Real Estate Agents,” identifying “marginal agents” with five or fewer sales per year as the number one threat to the industry.
Byron Lazine and Nicole White discuss a CFA report on a surfeit of agents—and marginal agents claiming a quarter of commissions in three markets—jealous home research, and what they think of Instagram’s new Threads app.
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