These top resi brokers want to change how the industry does business — with a new advocacy group

Last September, five of New York’s top brokers met to brainstorm a new idea. Collectively, the agents and their teams — from Compass, Douglas Elliman and Sotheby’s International Realty — had closed more than $1 billion in sales in 2016. But despite their individual successes, they felt the industry was lacking consistent standards and proper transparency: Why don’t brokers do a better job of sharing data? Why is measuring square footage still not standardized? By […]

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