Last year, a historic legal settlement resulted in sweeping rule changes that were supposed to lower the price of buying and selling a home across the country.
But those changes would cost real-estate agents money, and so those agents, it turns out, have found ways around the new rules.
Debra Kamin, who reports on real estate, explains how they did it.
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