Public accountability record

Editorial updates and corrections

Trust requires a visible record when evidence, methods or material claims change. This page documents consequential editorial changes; it is not an exhaustive software release log.

Material entries: 19
Corrections disclosed: 16
Latest material change: August 2026

What belongs here

Material changes, not silent rewrites

We log corrections to material factual claims, changes to scoring or source standards, and evidence-system updates that alter how a reader should interpret the published work.

Routine source refreshes, spelling fixes, formatting changes and software maintenance are not listed unless they change meaning. Profile review dates still identify the latest evidence check.

2026-08-20

Correction

Corrected Alex Murray, Robert Elliott and Ben Ganje profile evidence

The three profiles contained consequential production, review, tenure, specialty or market claims that were absent from an exact source register or presented team evidence as a named person's own aggregate.

Why it changed

Current official status, individual-versus-team scope and source-specific time periods materially affect how a consumer interprets an agent profile and ranking.

Reader impact

The August 20 review added exact-name Minnesota Commerce lookups and dated first-party and platform evidence. An August 25 refresh matched a live Engel & Völkers advisor page to Alex Murray's license number but found inconsistent affiliation signals across contemporaneous review paths, so the current brokerage website and email remain withheld. Alex and Robert use an Unknown working model, all three undocumented local headshots were removed, unsupported claims were removed or attributed, and Ben Ganje's review, sales and price figures remain team-only evidence withheld from person-level fields and structured data. Service-area, specialty and tag memberships were narrowed accordingly.

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2026-08-20

Correction

Removed unsupported rate anchors from the commission calculator

The seller-proceeds calculator opened with prefilled compensation and other-cost percentages that could be mistaken for Minnesota market reference points even though the page labeled them as examples.

Why it changed

This publisher does not have a current, representative statewide closing dataset that establishes those percentages. A financial planning tool should begin with the user's written terms rather than an unsupported anchor.

Reader impact

All calculator fields now begin at zero, seller-paid buyer-broker compensation is explicitly conditional, and the linked article distinguishes seller authorization under Minnesota Statutes § 82.70 from the separate agreement requirements in § 82.66. The calculator preserves a signed shortfall, keeps every entered financial value in the browser and sends only a categorical tool-start event.

Affected pages/blog/minnesota-real-estate-commissions-2026 /tools/commission-calculator

2026-08-20

Correction

Corrected Excelsior market and local-evidence scope

The Excelsior ranking displayed an unattributed median list price, days-on-market figure, commute estimate and market assertions while area tags could be read as proof of recent local transaction work.

Why it changed

Property-market snapshots, public-record requirements and agent experience answer different consumer questions. Each claim needs a source qualified for its field, date and geography, and a service-area tag cannot establish a recent closing.

Reader impact

The page now withholds the unsupported market figures, labels home-base and service-area data as discovery signals, and adds a dated decision map linking Excelsior, Hennepin County and LMCD records with explicit authority boundaries.

Affected pages/cities/excelsior

2026-08-19

Correction

Corrected Jason Huerkamp and Beth Nordaune evidence scope

The profiles used an unconfirmed first-party license identifier as a current-status answer, mixed team and individual review or production scope, and retained unsupported comparative and historical claims.

Why it changed

Consumers should be able to distinguish a state record from a displayed identifier and an individual's evidence from team or platform activity before relying on a profile.

Reader impact

Jason Huerkamp's profile now publishes separate, dated Zillow team and Homes.com five-year snapshots, removes the unconfirmed identifier from the verified-license field, withholds an ambiguously scoped price range and makes unresolved scope explicit. Beth Nordaune's profile now separates Zillow's dated team review and activity record from her two-review individual profile, withholds the team price range and unsupported contact fields from person-level facts, removes unsupported superlatives and records the unavailable Commerce result as a documentation gap. Both client-review score inputs were lowered to reflect the attributable evidence.

Affected pages/agents/jason-huerkamp /agents/beth-nordaune /agents /counties/dakota /counties/hennepin /counties/olmsted /counties/scott /specialties/first-time-buyers /specialties/luxury /specialties/new-construction /specialties/relocation /tags/buyer-specialist /tags/first-time-buyer /tags/new-construction /tags/relocation /tags/seller-specialist /data /research

2026-08-06

Correction

Corrected Dan Hennen review and team scope

The profile used an unattributed Experience.com aggregate, unsupported career-volume and credential claims, and individual-producer language that conflicted with Zillow's team label.

Why it changed

Review counts, production scope, team structure, credentials and current license status can materially affect an interview decision and must remain attached to the source qualified to establish each fact.

Reader impact

The profile now uses the current RE/MAX Advantage Plus biography for attributed tenure and specialties, publishes Zillow's 9-review team snapshot, preserves Realtor.com's separate lack of a review aggregate, removes unsupported volume and credential claims, and makes the missing official license-status check explicit.

Affected pages/agents/dan-hennen /agents /cities/chaska /specialties/relocation /specialties/waterfront /tags /tags/remax /tags/relocation /tags/solo-agent /tags/waterfront /data /research

2026-08-04

Correction

Corrected Amanda Lumley production and credential scope

The profile published unsupported 900-plus career-closing and $97.6 million five-year totals, unverified designation claims and comparative luxury language without an exact source register.

Why it changed

Production periods, platform totals, professional designations and current license status can materially affect an interview decision. Each needs a dated source qualified for the specific claim.

Reader impact

The profile now uses RealTrends' 2025 individual results, withholds conflicting Zillow activity totals, records Crosslake as the supported base, removes unverified designations and superlatives, and makes the missing official license-status check explicit.

Affected pages/agents/amanda-lumley /agents/cities/brainerd/specialties/luxury /specialties/waterfront /specialties/new-construction /tags/luxury /tags/waterfront /tags/solo-agent /tags/seller-specialist /data /research

2026-08-02

Correction

Published Daniel Gustafson's current license and 2016 consent order

The profile lacked the current Minnesota Commerce license result and historical consent order while using an unsupported comparative price-band superlative and vague brokerage compensation language.

Why it changed

Current status, historical regulatory action and final disposition must appear together. The site should neither omit a material official order nor imply that its 2016 suspension remains current.

Reader impact

The profile now shows license 40402029 as Active through June 2028, reports the August 2016 consent order's allegations and final terms with their legal and time boundaries, refreshes the Zillow snapshot, and removes unsupported comparative and compensation wording.

Affected pages/agents/daniel-gustafson /agents /data /research

2026-08-02

Correction

Corrected Jeffrey Dewing production and price-range scope

The profile used an open-ended $500,000-plus editorial range and a changing $22 million active-listing snapshot while its RealTrends record omitted current 2025 individual production.

Why it changed

An active listing is not a closed sale, and a manually inferred client range should not override dated platform evidence. Annual individual results, rolling platform activity and first-party awards must remain separate.

Reader impact

The profile now publishes RealTrends' 2025 individual sides, volume, average price and edition-specific Minnesota volume rank; preserves Zillow as a separate July 18 platform snapshot; uses its recorded sold-price range; adds the current Minnesota Commerce salesperson result; and removes the changing active-listing figure and unsupported compensation language.

Affected pages/agents/jeffrey-dewing /comparisons/bryce-caldwell-vs-jeffrey-dewing

2026-08-02

Correction

Corrected Ryan Hanson license and production scope

The profile previously described changing Homes.com totals as career production, used unsupported highest-volume language and presented a first-party attorney claim as a current verified credential.

Why it changed

A high-ranking profile that appears across published specialty and tag pages must distinguish an official real-estate license result, a dated platform activity window and professional claims that still require separate regulatory confirmation.

Reader impact

The profile now records Ryan T Hanson's Active Minnesota resident-broker result, labels Homes.com's 572 sales and $156.4 million as prior-five-year platform snapshots, removes unsupported market leadership and independently unconfirmed attorney language, and adds exact source records.

Affected pages/agents/ryan-hanson /agents /specialties/luxury /specialties/waterfront /specialties/relocation /tags/luxury /tags/waterfront /tags/relocation /data /research

2026-07-31

Correction

Removed unvetted specialty cohorts from ranking inventory

Investment and commercial records said the publisher was still vetting candidates while their profile tags simultaneously generated statewide rankings and, for investment, seven local city rankings.

Why it changed

An editorial classification can support directory filtering without proving that a ranked cohort has been researched to publication standard. Contradictory ranking and research-status claims weaken consumer trust and search intent clarity.

Reader impact

Researching specialties now remain visible as non-linking status records on the specialty hub. Only published specialties can generate statewide pages, local city-specialty pages, sitemap entries, homepage links or linked profile pills.

Affected pages/specialties/specialties/investment/specialties/commercial/cities/minneapolis/investment/cities/plymouth/investment/cities/eden-prairie/investment/cities/minnetonka/investment/cities/edina/investment/cities/chaska/investment/cities/wayzata/investment

2026-07-31

Correction

Corrected city ranking order to follow the published score

All 12 published city rankings and 31 city-specialty rankings could place a manually curated area match ahead of an agent with a higher five-factor editorial score, despite visible and structured-data claims that numbered order followed the score.

Why it changed

A numbered ranking, its disclosure and its ItemList structured data must use the same ordering rule. Editorial area inclusion can determine who qualifies for a local cohort, but it cannot silently override the published scoring formula after qualification.

Reader impact

City and city-specialty cohorts now preserve every curated, home-base and service-area match while sorting the complete qualified set by editorial score with a deterministic name tie-break. City ranking FAQs are generated from that same current order, and regression checks cover every published cohort.

Affected pages/cities

2026-07-31

Correction

Corrected prominent profile and compensation evidence scope

Three highly visible profiles overstated or blurred brokerage, price-tier, production, review and team evidence. Five buyer-facing statements also implied a statewide commission norm or no-cost buyer representation.

Why it changed

Consumers should be able to distinguish individual, team, first-party, independent-platform and government evidence before choosing an agent. Compensation is contract-specific and cannot be reduced to an unsupported statewide norm or free-representation claim.

Reader impact

Bryce Caldwell now shows the current public affiliation and conflicting sale totals; Joe Houghton separates career claims, team metrics and official builder credentials; Ellen DeHaven now reflects current team structure and dated individual activity. A regression check now covers all public agent, best-for and specialty compensation copy.

Affected pages/agents/bryce-caldwell /agents/joe-houghton /agents/ellen-dehaven /agents/beth-nordaune /agents/eda-rivers /agents/kent-stoa /best-for/lake-homes /best-for/luxury-buyers /best-for/first-time-buyers /best-for/families-schools /best-for/relocating-to-minnesota /best-for/new-construction /comparisons/bryce-caldwell-vs-joe-houghton /comparisons/bryce-caldwell-vs-ellen-dehaven

2026-07-31

Correction

Corrected Ben Ganje production scope and ranking claims

The profile previously published $1.5 billion and 1,500-home career totals plus statewide top-three and statewide-leading volume language that its exact source register did not support.

Why it changed

Production claims can materially influence an interview decision, and team platform activity cannot establish an individual's statewide rank. Exact source scope must control the narrative.

Reader impact

The profile now uses Zillow's dated team-level activity, review and price-range snapshots, preserves the conflicting experience figures, refreshes the public contact email, and removes unsupported statewide superlatives.

Affected pages/agents/ben-ganje

2026-07-29

Correction

Corrected unlaunched agent offers and compensation claims

The for-agents page presented planning-stage sponsorship prices, a paid verification add-on, competitor cost illustrations and a response-time promise as though they were active offers. Three buyer-facing answers also implied a typical statewide commission or no-cost representation.

Why it changed

Commercial availability must be distinguishable from product planning, and editorial verification cannot be framed as a paid benefit. Buyer compensation is negotiable and contract-specific under Minnesota law, so broad free-or-average claims can mislead a financial decision.

Reader impact

The agent page now separates available correction and evidence requests from future sponsorship interest, removes unlaunched pricing and unsupported comparisons, and states what payment cannot buy. Buyer-facing answers now direct readers to the signed representation agreement.

Affected pages/for-agents //about /best-for/first-time-buyers /specialties/luxury /specialties/new-construction

2026-07-28

Correction

Corrected and sourced the Amanda Armstrong profile

The profile previously blended an outdated RateMyAgent review count with unsupported review superlatives, award-year claims and unstable production totals while storing no exact claim-level source records.

Why it changed

Current platforms publish different review, affiliation and production snapshots. Preserving those scopes and conflicts is more accurate than combining them or presenting one changing platform total as a universal record.

Reader impact

The profile now links five dated public sources, uses RateMyAgent's current 31-review snapshot, shows conflicting platform totals explicitly, attributes production evidence by period and removes unsupported best-reviewed language.

Affected pages/agents/amanda-armstrong

2026-07-23

Correction

Removed an unsupported statewide commission average

The commissions article previously reported a precise Minnesota average and split without a current, representative statewide closing dataset that could establish those figures. We removed the numbers and rewrote the article around documented contract requirements.

Why it changed

Precision without a defensible source creates false confidence in a financial decision. Minnesota law establishes what agreements must disclose; it does not set or verify one statewide market rate.

Reader impact

The article now states that no rate is set by law, avoids publishing an unverified average, cites Minnesota Statutes § 82.66 and distinguishes contract requirements from negotiable market terms.

Affected pages/blog/minnesota-real-estate-commissions-2026

2026-07-23

Editorial process

Added claim-level source registers to journal articles

Journal articles now identify their publication date, latest substantive evidence review, research boundary and the dated primary sources supporting material claims.

Why it changed

A reader should be able to distinguish an original publication date from a later evidence review and see what each cited source actually supports.

Reader impact

Visible source registers and Article structured data now share the same citation URLs, publication dates and modification dates.

Affected pages/blog/how-to-choose-mn-real-estate-agent /blog/minnesota-real-estate-commissions-2026

2026-07-20

Evidence system

Published the normalized profile evidence ledger

Agent evidence is now exported as a separate, field-level ledger with publisher, source type, observation date, verification class and the exact claims each source supports.

Why it changed

A profile-level bibliography can imply that every source supports every claim. Field-level provenance makes the support boundary explicit and exposes uncited areas instead of hiding them.

Reader impact

Agent pages show evidence-area coverage and exact source registers; the data page provides CSV and JSON evidence downloads; the research report measures coverage and freshness separately from agent quality.

Affected pages/agents /data /research

2026-07-18

Evidence system

Added ranking provenance and transaction-data boundaries

Ranking pages now explain the five-factor formula, evidence period, editorial judgment, commercial independence and the current absence of a standardized private MLS production feed.

Why it changed

Readers need to know why an order appears, which inputs are editorial and which high-value metrics are not available—not infer those answers from a score.

Reader impact

Profiles and ranking pages explicitly separate public review snapshots, first-party claims, government records and unavailable standardized transaction measures.

Affected pages/agents /cities /methodology

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2026-08-20

Correction

Corrected Alex Murray, Robert Elliott and Ben Ganje profile evidence

Why it changed

Current official status, individual-versus-team scope and source-specific time periods materially affect how a consumer interprets an agent profile and ranking.