Inflation approaching 2% Target…Interest rates expected to decline next year.
If mortgage rates decline, will that drive home prices higher in light of limited inventory?
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The proposals now competing disagree about almost everything except the starting point. The listing database is valuable because working brokers build it, one listing and one represented client at a time. Every proposal on the table is, at bottom, an argument about how to honor that fact
Arguments about real estate data are conducted in a specialized vocabulary, and the vocabulary is doing real work. These terms decide who may see your home listing, who may build products from your sale price, and who pays whom for what.
That trade has broken down, because some firms now take data out without putting listings in, and others want to hold listings back while staying in. In the summer of 2026, three documents from three organizations proposed three different repairs. Here they are, in plain language.
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