Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

VestaPlus , a software development firm known for its MLS solutions geared to real estate agents, has entered into a strategic partnership with California -based San Diego MLS. The flexibility in working with VestaPlus is in line with what you would expect from a peer MLS,” Klein said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

REcore , a software-as-a-service and data licensing solutions provider for multiple listing services (MLSs), has announced the launch of its new MLS Buyer Registry tool. ” REcore’s MLS Buyer Registry helps with compliance by ensuring that a buyer agency agreement has been signed before a showing takes place. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On Wednesday, the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) and Mid-Atlantic-based Bright MLS announced that they will be offering subscribers reciprocal data access, or “guest access,” to reach other’s listings. CRMLS currently has more than 127,000 active listings and Bright MLS hosts more than 115,000 active listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

On Friday, the brokerage notified the court that it was voluntarily dismissing Wasatch Front Regional MLS , which does business as UtahRealEstate.com , from the suit. But the MLS defendant was dismissed without prejudice, which means Homie could refile its suit against UtahRealEstate.com. Homie filed the suit in mid-August.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

West Penn MLS finally got its way in the Moratis commission lawsuit. Stickman IV, who is overseeing the Moratis suit in the Western District of Pennsylvania, refused to stay the case for the MLS. Howard Hanna and West Penn MLS did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

In less than two weeks , offers of compensation for buyers’ brokers will no longer be permitted on any MLS in the U.S, eXp listing agents are not splitting their fees with buyer brokers and agents are allowed to follow their seller’s marketing wishes as long as they are complying with the rules of their local MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For the first time, the Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR) is opening up access to its Unlock MLS platform to non-Realtors. Starting June 1, real estate agents who are not certified Realtors will be able to subscribe to Unlock MLS without joining the 20,000-member ABoR. a month, or $575.64

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

New England -based MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) is following these footsteps with its latest partnership. MLS PIN announced a partnership with Restb.ai on Monday to bring advanced AI features to its web-based Pinergy MLS system. Erminio Grasso, president and CEO of MLS PIN, describes the Restb.ai

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

The MLS recently made this field mandatory, but in its announcement, it said it decided to make the change following feedback from its members. “As an MLS, it is our duty to protect you and your data. . “As an MLS, it is our duty to protect you and your data. The changes went into effect Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Initially announced in the summer of 2023, the settlement is between the Nosalek plaintiffs and defendant MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN). MLS PIN and the Nosalek plaintiffs went back to the drawing board in filing an amended settlement agreement, which the DOJ also took issue with. Despite Judge Patti B.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Georgia MLS the Peach State’s largest real estate marketplace announced on Wednesday that it will partner with 12 local MLSs to enhance data access for all parties under one listing platform. ” Georgia MLS has made other technology -enabled efforts to enhance data availability for agents. .”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As a panel of real estate leaders gathered to discuss the future of the MLS at the National Association of Realtors ‘ NXT conference in Boston, Errol Samuelson , Zillow ‘s chief industry development officer, found himself and his company in a bit different standing than usual with the audience of several hundred agents and brokers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The rational case for repealing MLS Clear Cooperation rules. MLS system offers transparency, but at what cost? MLS is not capitalism in its final form. Every year I get a postcard on my birthday from my MLS, My MLS pays for technology that I’ll never use and they put on training I rarely attend. Does cc work?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is getting a temporary reprieve from the latest antitrust suit it’s fighting regarding “three-way membership agreements” for MLS access. In the state of California, it is illegal for an MLS to require Realtor association membership it order to access the MLS.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

While the suit still names NAR, the Texas Association of Realtors (TAR) andthe Wichita Falls Association of Realtors (WFAR) as defendants, Eytalis has removed Paragon MLS Connect and added the Wichita Falls Association of Realtors MLS (WFMLS).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The plaintiffs take issue with what they claim is a requirement for agents and brokers — in Michigan and nationally — to be members of NAR, their state Realtor association and a local Realtor association in order to gain access to the MLS. The three plaintiffs are real estate professionals.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last week, the plaintiffs in the suit filed a notice of appeal of a lower court’s decision to dismiss both Howard Hanna and West Penn MLS from the suit with prejudice. In West Penn MLS, they had a different set of rules and different practices than those at issue in Missouri,“ he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Bright MLS has addressed these claims this week with relevant data. Bright MLS countered this post by saying that, “We’re not seeing any evidence of a surge of listing activity in the Washington, D.C., ” According to Bright MLS, there were 2,829 new listings that hit the market between Feb.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Arizona association had been facing the loss of its charter after offering a discounted, non-Realtor membership option that included MLS access.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

The option lets brokers access the MLS outside the traditional three-tier membership system. NAR says it is maintaining standards for the Realtor brand.

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MAY 3, 2024

Johnson’s letter also outlined what these changes will look like and what revisions to NAR’s MLS policy handbook have been made. The changes also prohibit the use of MLS data or data feeds to directly or indirectly establish or maintain a platform of compensation offers from multiple brokers or other buyer representatives.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

An explosive period for Denver’s multiple listing service (MLS) has come to an end, but an even more controversial one might be beginning. One of the interest parties they negotiated with was the existing board of directors, who in February believed they had a handshake deal to acquire the MLS. This is not an MLS.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) , San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR) and Austin-based Unlock MLS are entering into a data sharing agreement that will give Realtors access to each other’s listings, with the deal set to be finalized by the end of the year. It’s not the first time HAR, SABOR and Unlock MLS have collaborated.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “I We’ve come a long way since then.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Under its new ownership, REcolorado MLS rolled out a new Participation Agreement. REcolorado denies that the agreement does either of these things, claiming that the agreement gives it copyright over the compilation of the MLS database. They say the MLS has not hosted an event where agents can ask questions.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2024

The partnership, known as Coast 2 Coast MLS Data Share, will serve more than 20,000 agents. “One of the most powerful and significant benefits of an MLS is the resulting network effect,” realMLS CEO Nicole Jensen said. Greater exposure to listing content is good for consumers and adds value to each participating MLS.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most pertain to banning offers of compensation to buyer agents over the MLS, in addition to preventing MLSs from facilitating such offers to aggregator websites. It also requires MLS members to disclose agreements with prospective buyers that outline commission expectations before showing them a home for sale.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dawn Pfaff is a free-market evangelist, and that informs how she runs MyState MLS. We weren’t named in the litigation, we weren’t named in the copycat cases and we didn’t have the mandated rules that were named in the litigation,” said Jeremy Crawford, president and CEO of First MLS. “So,

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has decided to remove fields listing seller concessions from its platform. The nation’s largest MLS also added a field to indicate whether the amount being offered was a dollar amount of a percentage of the sales price of the home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The real estate industry is currently divided over the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Policy, but one local Realtor association and MLS has decided to move beyond just voicing an opinion. The Utah MLS had 1,789 subscribers at the end of 2023. In an email sent to members on Oct.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Earnnest is joining CoreLogic’s Real Estate Alliance Network, making it CoreLogic’s exclusive provider of escrow management services through its suite of MLS products, which includes Matrix, OneHome , MLS-Touch and Trestle. Joining CoreLogic’s Real Estate Alliance Network is a significant milestone for Earnnest. International.

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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. But what are the practicalities of this new settlement?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The suit argues that consumers should have a choice in whether or not they market their home on their local MLS. This choice is allegedly removed due to NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy, which requires agents to list the property on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing it.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Denver -area MLS has named a new CEO in Dana Bennett, who returns to REcolorado after an 18-month stint away from the company. Bennett’s most recent role at the MLS was as vice president and chief business development officer, and she originally joined REcolorado as director of integrated solutions in 2012.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

District Court in Pennsylvania claiming that NAR, the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR) and the Greater Lehigh Valley MLS (GLVMLS) have violated federal civil rights statutes, engaged in unlawful discriminatory practices, breached their contracts, created a monopolistic system and broken federal antitrust laws.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

As part of NAR’s mandatory MLS policies, Clear Cooperation requires brokers to list properties on an MLS within one day of publicly marketing the listing. Saul Klein , the CEO of San Diego MLS , began his career in the real estate industry in the 1970s. “I more than their off-MLS counterparts.

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