Rukmini Callimachi

On an earnings call earlier this summer, the chief executive of the online real estate brokerage Redfin was asked whether he had a contingency plan if interest rates did not come down? His answer was maybe a bit too frank.“Great question,” Glenn Kelman, the C.E.O., began on the call on Aug. 6, “Plan B is

Under new rules, potential buyers may now be responsible for paying their agent’s commission. Some now question the need for that agent.Less than two months ago, Joanne Y. Cleaver sold her home in a suburb of Charlotte for $725,000 in an unusual way: Facebook Marketplace.She did not hire a real estate agent, lining up a

If her parents had had their way, Sierra Nguyen might still be training to become an anesthesiologist.The child of Vietnamese refugees who escaped after the fall of Saigon, Ms. Nguyen grew up in Martinez, a small city in Northern California. She excelled in the sciences and got a scholarship to Saint Mary’s College of California,