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: 4
Corrections disclosed: 1
Latest material change: July 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.

2026-07-23

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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