For thousands of years, sailors told stories of the Kraken—a massive, many-armed sea monster said to drag entire ships beneath the waves. Ancient Greeks wrote of similar beasts, Norse fishermen swore ...

A battle in the real-estate industry has Compass squaring off against the likes of Zillow and Redfin Selling a house in today's sluggish real-estate market was already tough, and now one of the ...

Ken Johnson, a finance professor and real-estate chair at the University of Mississippi, recalled the pre-digital era, when he used to sell real estate. Home buyers back then were more reliant on ...

Selling a house in today’s sluggish real-estate market was already tough, and now one of the biggest players in real estate is asking people to do something that seems to make it even tougher: keep ...