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News Articles: real estate

Jim Xiao paid an agent a flat $10,000 fee to help him buy a home in Evans, Ga., last year. Here, Xiao and his children play soccer at their new home.

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  • Your Money

Real estate agent commissions too high? Flat-fee brokers offer an alternative

Agents have typically taken a commission on the sale of a home that totals 5% to 6% of the price. But new rules have created an opening for brokers who charge much less.

May 21, 2025
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  • Laurel Wamsley
EasyKnock says its sale-leaseback deals have helped hundreds of people improve their finances. An NPR investigation found some homeowners who enter into these deals lose tens of thousands of dollars and few buy their houses back.

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  • Investigations

Senators launch probe into sale-leaseback company, citing NPR's reporting

EasyKnock, the subject of the probe, announced its sudden closure earlier this month.

December 17, 2024
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  • Caitlin Thompson
Randee Noggle stands in front of her home in Taylor, Mich., on June 30, 2024. She sold the house to the sale-leaseback company EasyKnock, which announced Thursday it's going out of business.

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  • Investigations

A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down

EasyKnock, which pioneered 'sale-leaseback' deals for struggling homeowners, abruptly closes its doors

December 07, 2024
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  • Caitlin Thompson

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  • News

Study says Atlantans lost more than a billion dollars in real estate wealth to corporate investors

A new study by Georgia Tech researchers attempts to measure how much wealth Atlantans have lost over the past decade or so, as they've been pushed to the sidelines by large corporate real estate investors.

May 22, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
The Golden Saxophone House, featured on HGTV's new series <em>Zillow Gone Wild</em>.

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  • Television

'Zillow Gone Wild' brings wacky real estate listings to HGTV

Zillow Gone Wild started in 2020 as an Instagram account devoted to eccentric property listings. The show focuses on homes that defy everyday expectations in some way.

May 05, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Businesswoman Truong My Lan, front center, attends a trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

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  • Asia

Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon to death in its largest-ever fraud case

Truong My Lan, the 67-year-old chairwoman of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat, was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country's 2022 GDP.

April 12, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
For two decades, Orlando Capote has struggled with developers and the South Florida city of Coral Gables to protect the home his parents bought more than 35 years ago.

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  • National

A Florida man who refused to sell his home to a developer now lives in the shadows

Orlando Capote has been engaged in a two-decade struggle against developers and the city of Coral Gables to save his family's home. But his success comes with a price.

March 16, 2024
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  • Greg Allen
3391 Tuxedo Road

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  • Business

$19.8 million Buckhead home sale makes Atlanta real estate history

A Buckhead home has made Atlanta real estate history with its sale price of $19.8 million.

March 14, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
3490 Riverly Road

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  • Business

Buckhead estate sells for almost $13 million, breaks three-year record

Dorsey Alston, Realtors agent Shanna Smith closed on the record-breaking sale of a 12-acre Buckhead estate listed for $12,900,000.

March 06, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
An illustration of Portman’s planned redevelopment of Amsterdam Walk.

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  • News

Tensions mount in Atlanta neighborhoods over Portman’s planned redevelopment of Amsterdam Walk

Portman views the roughly 10-acre property off Monroe Drive and nestled between the affluent Morningside/Lenox and Virginia-Highland neighborhoods as the ideal spot for a destination mixed-use project because its adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine, Piedmont Park, and Atlanta Botanical Garden.

February 07, 2024
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  • Dyana Bagby
A home for sale sign on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga. On Friday, the National Association of Realtors reported that 2023 saw the smallest number of home sales in nearly 30 years.

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  • Economy

2023 was the worst year to buy a house since the 1990s. But there's hope for 2024

Realtors hope it will be easier to buy a house in 2024. It can't get much harder: last year was one of the slowest on record thanks to high mortgage rates coupled with a housing shortage.

January 20, 2024
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  • Chris Arnold
Driven by new regulations, developers are tearing down many older buildings on the waterfront in Miami and other cities in Florida and replacing them with luxury condominiums.

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  • National

After the Surfside collapse, Florida is seeing a new condo boom

The 2021 collapse killed nearly 100 people. Regulations passed since then have raised costs for those living in older buildings. Developers want homeowners to sell so they can put up luxury condos.

January 04, 2024
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  • Greg Allen
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

WeWork files for bankruptcy in a stunning downfall from its $47 billion heyday

With its flexible office spaces, WeWork once was seen as a Silicon Valley darling led by an eccentric and charismatic founder. Financial troubled intervened, followed by the pandemic.

November 07, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
(Bartolotti Media for Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty)

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  • News

Elton John sells Peachtree Road condo, continues decades of charitable work in Atlanta

Last week, the "Rocket Man" singer sold his Buckhead apartment for $7.225 million, but his work with the Elton John AIDS Foundation will continue.

November 02, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Dan Valdez, housing acquisitions manager for the nonprofit Brilliant Corners, checks out a recently leased property near downtown Los Angeles.

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  • National

To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused

A Los Angeles program aggressively scouts vacant units and lobbies landlords in one of the country's tightest real estate markets. Some landlords offer up units even before putting them on the market.

October 24, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
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