Real Estate Broker Fees, Rise of Zillow, and the Structural Challenges of the Market

A verdict in Missouri portends big changes in the real estate industry, why real estate is a natural fit for an aggregator, and divergent outcomes from two tech-adjacent price-fixing cases. At the end: The NBA and streaming, and Ronald Reagan’s version of Mission: Impossible.

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The Way You Pay to Buy or Sell a Home Is About to Change — Wall Street Journal

Atlantic City Hotels Turn Attention to Vegas Courthouse in Pricing Algorithms Case — The National Law Review

An Interview with Opendoor CEO Eric Wu About Building a Marketplace in a Real Estate Slowdown — Stratechery Interview

Opendoor Earnings, Opendoor’s Pricing, Opendoor’s Scalability — Stratechery Update

Are Broker Commissions Too High? — New York Times

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