It costs a small fortune to buy a home, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The truth is that real estate elites and their friends in government have priced out millions of consumers by adopting brazenly anti-consumer policies. Perhaps none is so outrageous as the one I’m taking on in Oregon.

According to Oregon’s top real estate regulator, you can lose your real estate license if you offer a discount to a consumer. That’s right. We often think about the government getting involved in markets to lower prices of essential items for consumers. But in Oregon, official state policy requires aspiring homebuyers to pay more.

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