Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm a real estate agent who thought I was too smart to fall for a scam. Then I almost sold a $200,000 lot to a fraudster. Adam ...

In the fourth year of a struggling market, even real-estate professionals who made it this far are reaching a breaking point.

When my husband and I house-hunted a decade ago, we initially went through real estate agents like tissues. It felt like speed dating: One person was aggressive; another ghosted after garbled texts.

When real-estate agent Jo Chavez first showed her buyers a $400,000 four-bedroom property in Kansas City, Mo., she thought she saw the light at the end of the tunnel. The buyers had been looking for ...