The Case the Industry Forgot — Part 1 of 8
The decree’s core principle fits in one sentence: a broker may not decide what a rival broker’s customers are allowed to see. Display decisions belong to the seller. Data flows to every cooperating broker on cost based, equal terms.
Industry at a Crossroads — Living Update #1
On June 15, 2026, MLex reported that Stanley Woodward, the Associate Attorney General, has been placed in charge of running the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The step matters because of who Woodward is and how he reached it. It matters more because the division he now controls has spent the better part of a decade as the principal federal antitrust threat to organized real estate.
“Hey, you’ve got Email!”
if you are not retaining emails and texts in a centralized, supervised system, let’s make 2026 the year that gets corrected. Pronto.
New California Disclosure Law For Digitally Altered Images — AB -723
If an advertisement or promotional material described in paragraph (1) is posted on an internet website over which the real estate broker or salesperson, or person acting on their behalf, has control, they shall include the unaltered version of the images from which the digitally altered images were created in the posting
Anatomy Of A Real Estate Lawsuit
The one stage of the litigation that we haven’t covered is the DISCOVERY Stage – It’s the fun part where you get to see all the juicy facts that have been conjecture up to this point, but now the facts are presented in detail and made under oath.
A compliance expert quizzed ChatGPT. Here’s what it got wrong.
The goal of this piece isn’t to spotlight what I know, but to illustrate what AI might not (at least not today). Ultimately, it’s the user behind the screen who must think critically before relying on AI for crucial information.