Assigning another party to take over a transaction from you before it closes can be smart. Be sure you do it right.

If it looks like a jointly held mortgage will be the answer to getting the transaction done, don’t sugarcoat the facts.

If you give clients a list of inspectors to contact, be sure all are qualified.

After months of NAR fighting for the right for multiple listing services to obtain copyright for their databases, the U.S. Copyright Office appears poised to accept listing databases as copyrightable if they’re sufficiently creative. The association created materials, which were reviewed and approved by the agency, to help MLSs demonstrate that creativity.