WA real estate firm fired woman for reporting harassment, lawsuit says

A woman who once worked for Bellingham-based eXp Realty says the real estate brokerage ended her employment in retaliation for reporting her supervisor’s sexual harassment of another employee.  The woman sued eXp in Whatcom County Superior Court last week, arguing the company said it was eliminating her role, but she believes she was let go … Read more

Detroit sues blockchain real estate firm over hundreds of blighted properties

Detroit — City officials said they filed the largest nuisance abatement lawsuit in Detroit’s history Wednesday against a pair of Florida-based brothers believed to be linked to a network of cryptocurrency real estate companies that control more than 400 city properties with rampant blight and nuisance violations. Many are rental properties in low-income neighborhoods, while … Read more

Woman says Bellingham-based real estate firm ignored her sexual assault report

A real estate agent filed a lawsuit Monday against eXp Realty, accusing the Bellingham-based brokerage of failing to investigate when she reported that she believed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by a company contractor. Kirsten Childress, 31, became the sixth woman to sue the brokerage in the past two years. All have similar … Read more

DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator

The current balance in the LOCCS system, according to a record reviewed by WIRED, is over $100 billion—money Congress has approved for HUD projects but which has yet to be drawn down. Much of this money has been earmarked to cover disaster assistance and community development work, a source at the agency says. Normally, those … Read more