Indiana’s Securities Commissioner has ordered a Louisville-based home mortgage broker and another broker based in Las Vegas to stop doing business in Indiana. A complaint filed with the Indiana Securities Commission cites Louisville-based Home Ownership Possibilities for Everyone LLC as one of the companies operating illegally without a license in Indiana. The state cited the [...]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has recently issued a ruling that any charges in addition to a real estate agent’s commission are illegal if no extra services are provided. In recent years, some real estate agents and brokers have been adding extra fees to their commissions to generate more revenue. In most cases, [...]

A recent article that appeared in the Washington Examiner discusses a topic that many people want to know: what is the difference between Realtors®, real estate agents and real estate brokers? With the federal tax credit drawing more and more first-time home buyers to the real estate market, many people have no idea about what [...]