Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The heated battle over the Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) has led to tectonic shifts in the residential brokerage world, but one company doesnt plan on utilizing a carve-out intended to appease opponents of the rule eXp Realty. CCP requires agents to place a listing on a NAR-affiliated MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing it.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

Multiple Listing Services (MLS) by those trying to disparage the system. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. It’s easy to understand what a market without an MLS would look like and why it doesn’t work. An additional $6,400.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

Utah-based Wasatch Front Regional MLS , which does business as UtahRealEstate.com , is also named as a defendant in the suit. As a self-described “technology driven industry disrupter,” Homie’s business model involves charging home sellers a flat fee to list their property on the MLS. “As

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

reigned supreme as the largest residential brokerage in America by transaction sides last year , according to the latest annual ranking by Real Trends. But such activity didn’t result in more sales volume than its chief rivals, publicly traded brokerage colossus Realogy or controversial New York upstart Compass.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Formerly known as a collective of McEnearney Associates and Middleburg Real Estate/Atoka Properties , the firm’s agents serve both residential and commercial real estate clients across the Greater D.C. Howell is the current vice chairman of Bright MLS and has previously served as president of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Well, this settlement focuses on Multiple Listing Services (MLS) in various ways which will impact the property market. This means that MLS participants working with buyers must enter into a written agreement with the buyer before touring a property. Eric Bramlett is the owner of Bramlett Residential.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the crux of the case is the allegation that commission rates are too high, it’s unfair that the seller pays the buyer’s agent’s commission, and that the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Conduct and MLS Handbook lead to set pricing. ” What’s at stake?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.” 2023, the Masiello suit is seeking class action status for all persons who used any brokerage defendant to list and sell a home on an Arizona MLS and paid a buyer broker commission between Jan. commission ($10,250) to the buyer broker.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The REBNY and the Residential Listing Service (RSL) in NYC are governed by the Universal Co-Brokerage Agreement (UCBA) and are independent from the National Association of Realtors. The rule will require listing agreements to clearly outline the seller’s offer of compensation to the buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

REX grabbed national attention in March when the residential real estate brokerage filed a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between listings giant Zillow and the powerful National Association of Realtors. Non-MLS listings, including by REX, are relegated to other listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

HomeServices of America , the last remaining brokerage defendant in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett antitrust commission case , has agreed to pay $250 million in damages to settle lawsuits that will change agent compensation across America. The New York Times first reported the story. The Minnesota-headquartered firm had $133.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Similar to the other commission lawsuits, the latest two take aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires the listing broker to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker to list the property on the MLS. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

“The biggest difference is that sellers need to have the new format and commission structure explained to them fully and carefully,” said Rachael Dotson, an agent at Rhode Island-based Residential Properties Ltd. Another wrinkle is that not all agents, brokerages or sellers are handling offers of buyer broker compensation the same way.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Friday’s bombshell – the National Association of Realtors ‘ proposed $418 million settlement of real estate commission lawsuits – set off a frenzy of trading for stocks in the residential real estate sector. While CoStar’s stock climbed more than 8% on the day, the other companies’ stocks fell 4.9-14.3%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At the center of the lawsuit is NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s brokers in order to list a property on a Realtor association affiliated MLS. 2, 2019, and Oct. 2, 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Ryan Tomasello, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods , attributes the downward pressure on buyer agent commission to the various changes mandated by the settlement agreement, including mandatory buyer representation agreements and the removal of offers of cooperative compensation from the MLS. “We’ve

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

The number of nonresidential building jobs again outpaced the number of residential building jobs added, at 5,800 jobs versus 3,100 jobs. Residential building construction employment increased by 0.3% Residential building is up 8.3% compared with pre-pandemic levels, while non-residential building remains 3.1%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. Unclear is whether the California MLS may renege its relationship with Glide. You could understand why other brokerages and agents wouldn’t be entirely convinced their data would be cordoned off.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2021

“Zillow essentially concedes that NAR and MLS’s antiquated, anticompetitive rules are bad for consumers, but chose to close ranks and enforce them anyway.”. REX has argued that this “other” is pejorative and an attempt by NAR member brokerages to increase an anti-competitive stranglehold on home sales.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

For over 37 years I have been a consultant to brokerage firms, MLS’s, Association of Realtors, and other entities related to the residential brokerage industry. While the sale of a Realtor — owned MLS is important news, the rest of what has been reported on is not.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The residential brokerage was dismissed this week from one of the early real estate commission lawsuits , known as “Batton 1” after its lead plaintiff, a homebuyer named Mya Batton. HomeServices of America can preserve some of its legal war chest — for now, at least. Judge Andrea Wood of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. Smart Data: Over 1 billion data points on residential and commercial real estate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Brokerages RE/MAX , Anywhere , Keller Williams , eXp World Holdings , NorCal Gold , Williams L. Despite not being affiliated with NAR, MetroList adopted a rule similar to NAR’s Participation Rule, requiring listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

million after the brokerage paid its commissions and related expenses. However, it was better than the overall residential industry, which fell 20%, according to Greg Hart, chief operating officer at Compass. Revenue decreased by 10% year over year to $1.34 Revenue was revised down to $241.20

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MLS Property Information Network’s (MLS PIN) settlement agreement in the Nosalek class action antitrust buyer-broker compensation lawsuit has hit yet another snag. MLS PIN, which is New England’s largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS), filed the settlement agreement in late June.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In response, many brokerage firms have adapted their business models to navigate these challenges. brokerage firms continues to decline, sitting near 10% by the end of 2024. Additionally, segmentation among brokerage firms is likely to increase, driven by differences in cost structures and technology adoption.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Brokerage founder and CEO Robert Reffkin laid his firm’s plans for the future bare during its third-quarter 2024 earnings call with investors and analysts on Wednesday. Listing inventory remains the lifeblood of the residential real estate marketplace,” Reffkin said. “At It deserves to be protected from the risk of MLS exposure.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For decades, disruptors and innovators in the residential real estate industry have been trying to chip away at the near monopoly that Realtors have had over home sales. We learned the hard way about the control that the NAR maintains over the entire residential real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

But the brokerage firm is once again finding itself under fire after homebuyer plaintiff Scott Davis filed a suit against the firm’s parent company, Hanna Holdings , on May 31. After being voluntarily dismissed from the Batton 2 homebuyer commission lawsuit in early March, things were looking up for Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These lawsuits threaten to radically reshape the residential brokerage landscape, and could be the catalyst for a fat decline in the annual commission pool as well as the industry shedding as many as 80% of agents, according to a team of analysts at Keefe Bruyette Woods. Who’s most exposed? If 1 million agents disappear?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In addition, non-residential building construction added 4,100 jobs, compared to just 100 jobs in residential construction “Residential building construction employment is up 3.5% year over year, and non-residential increased 4.9%. Residential building construction employment is now up 11.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The battle began heating up in September 2023 when CoStar’s residential real estate platform Homes.com surpassed 100 million unique monthly visitors, becoming the second most popular listing portal behind Zillow. Like all of the publicly traded brokerages, Zillow Group saw its stock prices slide, dropping 13.4%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The settlement agreement also mandates that MLS participants working with buyers must enter into a written buyer broker agreement. But the settlement does provide a mechanism for brokerages to opt in to the agreement if they so choose, or they can negotiate their own settlement, as Compass and The Real Brokerage have recently done.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“The Mandatory NAR Rules impede the ability of a free market to function in the residential real estate industry, and the plain purpose and/or effect of the Rules is to raise, inflate, or stabilize commission rates.” But such an indirect claim is prohibited by Supreme Court case law.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

PRO TIP IDX stands for Internet Data Exchange, a system that allows real estate agents and brokers to display Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listings on their websites. This makes Agent Image ideal for teams and boutique brokerages that want a fully customized website with built-in CRM features. per month Search experience: 4.8

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Xactus Wednesday announced its new active listing scan program, which will scan residential addresses for changes in listing status and the average number of days on market for a neighborhood. The monitoring program, covering all 50 states, includes MLS listing data as well as public records from data aggregators.

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