TechFlash: Redfin’s Glenn Kelman hasn’t made many friends with real estate agents over the years. But now the outspoken CEO — who declared in a 60 Minutes interview nearly two years ago that real estate is the “most screwed up industry in America” — is turning to some of his most vocal critics to help grow the business: Realtor

New York Times: YOU’VE heard of no-fee apartments, but no-fee brokers? It’s a counterintuitive idea for New York real estate, but then again, these are counterintuitive times. And Lee Lin and Lawrence Zhou, young Wall Street types with degrees from M.I.T. and Wharton School on their walls, think they can make it work.

Mainstreet: A U.S. real estate brokerage firm asks its clients to cut their homes’ listing price in the hopes of attracting buyers during a 10-day markdown sale.

Businessweek: But like many other Realtors the Nigerian immigrant is now supplementing his income in other ways.

Herald Tribune: “Many of the people who entered during the boom years felt like this was an easy business and an easy way to make money, and it’s not,”

St Petersburg Times:  Why wouldn’t real estate agents want their prospective clients and customers to turn to the Internet for information about houses?

Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department said it reached a settlement with the National Association of Realtors in an antitrust case over the trade group’s effort to control how home listings are displayed on the Internet.

Marketwatch: Justice Dept., realtors settle over online listings.

In Business Las Vegas: The real estate market was hurting her income as a Realtor. Her once six-figure income fell to nothing because of no commissions in 2007.

Gold said she worries about prospect of foreclosure, but has no plans to file for bankruptcy. She remains adamant that she will survive these tough times.

Chicago Defender:  Black women are carving a leadership niche in the real estate industry, going a step further than being agents who show listings to brokers who own them. “Owning your own [real estate] brokerage firm is no small task. It’s a very big deal when you are a broker,” said Sherell C. Slaise, 31, coowner of The Carter Ware Group Inc., a brokerage firm in Chicago.

The Motley Fool:  After soaring for years, home prices have fallen sharply, and sellers want to get as much as they can for their homes. Sometimes, they mull over the idea of going it alone. After all, you can go to any open houses on your own, and you can make an offer on any home on your own. Likewise, you can put out signs and sell your home on your own, too.