Real Estate
David Giacalone, a good friend of Antitrust Review, has a very intersting post at his new blog, shlep - a blog devoted to pro se and self-help law - on real estate agents’ efforts to resist unbundling of their services.
Although most sellers and buyers still hire real estate agents, neither are required to do so, and there are self-help materials available to guide the do-it-yourselfer through this process, or make it possible to do some of the tasks traditionally performed by brokers. Of course, you have to be able to find an agent willing to unbundle his or her services and take on discrete tasks at a lower price. … That’s nice, you might say, but why is a website focused on self-help law focusing on this topic? The answer is that realtors have been trying (successfully in several states already) to get laws passed that would make significant unbundling unlawful.
Check it out.
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