Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Haag, in communication with NWMLS employees, said that real estate brokerage firms in Washington state, as members of NWMLS, have agreed to share all property listings with the entire brokerage community and the public for more than 40 years. Northwest MLS has declined to adopt those misguided, exclusionary rules.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) for the real estate industry, as well as JPARs solutions designed to enhance agent and brokerage performance. Rather than going in and searching the MLS yourself, and having to pull out those names and then email clients, you can actually automate that process and use AI.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This includes — but is not limited to — posting to the MLS, hosting open houses and getting creative with social media. Their responsibilities include listing the property on the MLS, marketing the property and negotiating offers with potential buyers. Now, it’s time to join a brokerage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Compass goes on to say that it’s standing by its past statements that your MLS is not giving adequate homeowner choice and that your MLS is subject to litigation risk. At Bright MLS , Compass said agents are allowed to market office-exclusive listings on the MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The essence of our industrys defense of modern MLS infrastructure rests upon a fragile foundation that says, “Its not perfect, but its the best we can do.” If we were to start fresh, no competent businessperson would design an MLS system like this. Technology still isn’t the NARs strong suit.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Two months prior to that, Zillow began moving homes not listed on the MLS out of initial user search results and onto a second tab. This adhered to an optional NAR rule , which prevents those who choose to adopt it from commingling MLS listings with non-MLS listings. In May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

The Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS) announced a partnership with Lone Wolf Technologies that will give ARMLS subscribers access to a tool designed to give agents information to guide their clients through an uncertain market. ” This isn’t Lone Wolf’s first partnership with an MLS this year. .”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Here’s why: Good software might help your brokerage stay afloat in a post-lawsuit market. The looming chaos from the commission lawsuits sure isn’t helping.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Real estate giant Zillow came out victorious in its years-long legal battle with discount brokerage REX Real Estate. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. In a verdict announced late Friday afternoon, a jury in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And yes, there’s an MLS feed since most are IDX-enabled. We looked at pricing, design quality, ease of use, lead generation features, and then combed online reviews to get feedback from other working Realtors. Instead of learning to code or wrestling with WordPress, you can get your website up and running in an afternoon.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

The nation’s second largest multiple listing service , Bright MLS , will begin allowing listing agents to put in a blanket offer of compensation for buyer brokers of zero dollars or more, starting on August 9. While Bright MLS, which serves clients in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Washington, D.C.,

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BAM Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In the past two years, home sellers who avoided the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) left over $1 billion on the table. According to new research from Zillow , choosing a private listing network over the MLS meant the typical seller pocketed $4,975 less than they could have. nationwide. nationwide.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This tool uses technology from Roomvo , a home design visualization platform. The tool empowers prospective homebuyers to imagine the potential of a home while playing with different design styles. Additionally, Redfin and Roomvo partnered with Bright MLS to make the tool available on all Bright MLS’ listings across the mid-Atlantic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“This decision underscores our brokerage’s unwavering commitment to agent autonomy and our belief in allowing agents to make choices that best suit their needs and principles,” Dave Danforth, designated broker/owner of the firm, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

” “The NAR and its MLS partners, which now include Zillow, are allowed to once again close off transparent access to home inventory by entering into agreements among themselves that disadvantage all but their own membership; consumers and competition will suffer,” read the lawsuit. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Department of Justice could be ready to square off again with the National Association of Realtors — this time over an optional rule to prevent commingling of MLS and non-MLS listings. All of the books said they were confidential and not to give them away,” said Saul Klein, the current CEO of San Diego MLS.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

It devolved into a battle about historic facts, old-school MLS listing books, pronunciation corrections and even references to the kid-friendly restaurant chain Chuck E. Your system of getting competitors together to found and enforce rules that are designed to stabilize prices is wrong,” he said. “It It is against the law.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

This new settlement agreement was enacted on August 17th, 2024, and has been designed to increase transparency in real estate transactions and change how compensation is communicated and negotiated between parties. Well, this settlement focuses on Multiple Listing Services (MLS) in various ways which will impact the property market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

REsides , which bills itself as an online, “borderless” MLS announced Thursday that it’s partnering with startup proptech platform Rayse. The Rayse platform is designed to make agent-client relationships transparent in an evolving real estate market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The sudden decision on the eve of trial to withdraw three class representatives raises questions about whether the withdrawal was designed to avoid testimony that could conflict with other class representatives, raising questions about the merits and/or the propriety of the class,” the defense motion states.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

This is designed to keep user engaged on brokerage sites, foster trust and enhance their overall experience. We chose Roof AI for its seamless integration with the MLS. This responsiveness builds trust and makes consumers more likely to engage with the brokerage.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) antitrust settlement are designed to encourage more negotiations for buyer agent commissions. Instead of negotiating on the MLS , agents are engaging through phone calls and text messages. But different brokerages are experiencing different things.

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BAM Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Real RISE 2024 kicks off today, October 22nd, with some exciting new developments in AI and fintech for real estate agents who’ve joined (or will join) the brokerage. It also integrates with the Real Design Center , using MLS data to generate branded content (including “Just Sold” posts and listing announcements) delivered at the right time.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pareja took over as CEO at eXp in April 2024 and became the first Hispanic CEO of a major real estate brokerage in U.S. eXp purposely designed the document in a way that uses as little legal jargon as possible, so as to not confuse buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The complaint argues that the NAR and the brokerage defendants collude “to impose, implement and enforce anticompetitive restraints that cause home sellers to pay inflated commissions on the sale of their homes, in violation of federal antitrust law.” Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

Enter the commission sharing websites — websites specifically designed for agents and brokers to quickly and easily find out if the seller of a property is offering to cover the buyer’s broker fees. We also aren’t getting data from the MLS, which is prohibited in the settlement— it is user generated content.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

Specifically, the DOJ told NAR executives and Sears that it is closely watching updated forms that are coming out of the state and local Realtor associations, as well as brokerages and MLS, and any potential “loopholes” or “work arounds” agents or firms are exploring to circumvent the business practice changes outlined in NAR’s settlement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On Monday, the now defunct discount brokerage filed an appeal with the U.S. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. REX Real Estate is back again trying to get a new trial in its false advertising lawsuit against Zillow.

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Real Estate News

MARCH 31, 2025

Countering criticism from Compass Robert Reffkin, the CEO of the Washington-based MLS said private networks are designed to benefit brokerages, not consumers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

The recent announcement of Homie’s decision to strip its brokerage services and end employment for its real estate agents has once again brought the discussion of alternative models in real estate to the forefront. Many limited service brokerages have faced similar hurdles in their quest to disrupt the status quo.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

To achieve this goal, the company has released a series of product updates that are designed to support agents as they navigate the post-NAR settlement environment. “While the NAR settlement changes have led to some anxiety , brokerages and agents who use MoxiWorks have what they need at their fingertips.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Since almost all of our picks offer roughly the same features, we scored them based on our opinion of their property search experience, design quality, and overall user experience (UX). UX design quality: 4.6 UX design quality: 4.6 Property search results pages are well-designed, easy to navigate and customizable.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, other email tools not specific to real estate agents (like Mailchimp and Flodesk) offer built-in templates that make delivering beautifully designed email newsletters a cinch. Create a responsive newsletter design One of the best ways to make things easy on yourself is to use real estate newsletter templates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. Ketchmark countered this with the fact that nothing on the slides designated things as a model.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Your real estate website should serve multiple functions, almost like a digital business card with an MLS listing storefront, a booking platform, a home valuation page, and even your background story and biography. Use a visually appealing color scheme that aligns with your branding guidelines.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

The now defunct discount brokerage filed its appeal in early February 2024, asking the appeals court to reverse the lower court’s ruling on REX’s motion of a new trial. Despite claiming that it did not support this rule, Zillow chose to adopt it and created a two-tab design for MLS listings and “other listings.”

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