Brokerage Bond New York scheduled to offer a deal on online coupon site Groupon today that would charge consumers $25 for $1,000 off closing costs in the sale or purchase of their next home. However, Noah Freedman, co-founder of Bond, was notified over the weekend that the deal would have to be pulled due to legal reasons, according to Crain’s, though the exact reasons weren’t immediately available.

This comes a month after Chicago real estate brokerage Dream Town Realty became the first real estate firm to use Groupon to attract new clients. [more]

A new Palm Beach-based brokerage is planning to open a Manhattan office this summer. The Next Step Realty aims to help recent college graduates transition from home to apartment, by pairing 20-something clients with like-minded, similarly aged agents. The company currently has 35 brokers in 17 different U.S. cities including Boca Raton, Miami and New York City. [more]