Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Existing home sales finished 2024 on a high note after a dismal year for the housing market. The December report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows existing-home sales at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.24 Sales in 2024 finished at just 4.06 Available existing homes for sale fell to 1.15

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The latest signal comes from the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), which shows sales in October growing 5.4% “Homebuying momentum is building after nearly two years of suppressed home sales,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. year over year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And for all talk about getting a good deal on a purchase or sale, people still just want to find the right home and have a smooth process. 1 need, while only 14% said they wanted help in negotiating the terms of the sale. The survey also shed light on the different methods by which agents are marketing homes for sale.

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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

JUNE 25, 2024

News of the deal, which the board learned about late last week, surprised the MLS executives who had been approached by the shareholders in January. REcolorado is the 16 th largest MLS in the country with 25,000 members. So when the shareholders offered to let the MLS buy itself out, “we jumped at the chance,” Vincent said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Northwest MLS , the largest multiple listing service in the Pacific Northwest, will not take part in the $418 million agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the Sitzer/Burnett case. Secret deals’ The NWMLS board of directors made the decision to opt out at its most recent meeting, the organization said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

OneKey MLS has acquired Mid-Hudson MLS according to an announcement on Monday, growing its membership to nearly 50,000 agents. The Poughkeepsie-based Mid-Hudson MLS is a broker-owned MLS serving over 1,400 agents in Dutchess County and the Mid-Hudson Valley area.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

In a news release, Compass CEO Robert Reffkin appeared to openly taunt the National Association of Realtors (NAR), whose CCP rulerequires a Realtor to put a home for sale on the local NAR-affiliated multiple listing service (MLS) within a day of marketing a listing. decrease on the national median sale price.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

With the latest industry turmoil around compensation, steering and more due to lawsuits and the investigation by the Department of Justice , those outside the housing industry would assume the benefit to listing a home on the MLS would be negligible. “[That study] just showed the averages off-MLS versus the averages on-MLS.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Rental software provider RentSpree announced on Monday a new partnership with UtahRealEstate.com (URE), a multiple listing service (MLS) serving approximately 20,000 real estate professionals across Utah. Lastly, RentSpree scored another partnership with the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR), the second-largest MLS in Texas.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

And while most of the talking points espoused on both sides of the debate remain fairly consistent, those who are in favor of the policy have recently started to claim that an agent who doesnt list their sellers properties on the MLS may be exposing themselves to legal liability. Jerrold Bregman, a partner at BG Law , shares a similar view.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Pending home sales sales dropped 7.7% The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index declined to 72.3 New-home sales , which are also based on contract signings, fell 4.7% Existing-home sales also declined last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.14 Year over year, pending transactions fell 7.4%. All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Bright MLS , the nation’s second-largest multiple listing service, is set to overhaul its platform this summer to align with new standards stemming from the National Association of Realtors ’ recent settlement of the real estate agent commission lawsuits. Bright MLS also tells agents and brokers that commissions are negotiable.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

In a statement released Wednesday night, REcolorado warned Denver-area Realtors that outside ownership of the local MLS could bring added uncertainty during an already uncertain time and suggested that their data could be compromised. REcolorado is the 16th-largest MLS in the United States and has 25,000 members.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Bright MLS released its National Housing Market Outlook on Wednesday, which shows that affordability will remain the biggest challenge for homebuyers next year. Home sales are expected to rise, as homebuyers will have more options to choose from. Existing-home sales will end 2024 at 4.6 for much of the year before reaching 6.2%

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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. The Denver Metro Association of Realtors (DMAR) and South Metro Denver Realtors Association (SMDRA) were the majority shareholders prior to the sale to Burks and MAZL. This is not an MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced a multiyear licensing agreement with REdistribute for permissioned access to multiple listing services (MLS) information. Launched in 2022 by BrightMLS and California Regional MLS , REdistribute is an MLS-owned company that includes licensed data from more than 40 MLSs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

According to Bright MLS, it’s the slowest annual gain in 2024 thus far and the first monthly decline since December 2022. Though significant, this drop in rates has not yet resulted in a significant uptick in demand and home sales activity, which meant home price growth continued to mellow.” gain year over year, less than the 4.8%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In some states, the door has been open for many years to real estate agents who want to access their local MLS without being a Realtor. In late 2024 , PAR announced it would be allowing non-Realtors to access the MLS it co-owns with Arizona Regional MLS (ARMLS) starting Jan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Why listing scams are on the rise Unlike home sales, land transactions often skip in-person meetings or property access, which makes it easier for scammers to impersonate legitimate owners without detection. Public records & MLS misuse Scammers exploit MLS history and public records to appear credible. Use a service.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Real estate industry veteran Saul Klein is taking over as the CEO and director of SDAR’s wholly-owned San Diego MLS , according to an announcement on Tuesday. “I In July, Mike Mercurio , SDMLS’ longtime CEO left the MLS amid a cloud of alleged inappropriate financial behavior.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

REcolorado has taken a big step toward moving on from its controversial sale earlier this year. 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. After Burks purchased the MLS in June, REcolorado rolled out a revised participation agreement to its members.

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Housing Wire

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

JANUARY 14, 2025

TAN filed the lawsuit in May of 2020, claiming that the purpose of the suit was to stop NAR and its affiliates from conspiring to shut down competition, disrupt the relationship between real estate agents and their clients, and take away a familys freedom to choose how to market their home for sale.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

Homebuilders with unsold inventory are feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates — and it’s showing up in new-home sales data. Census Bureau ’s new-home sales report for May shows that transactions took a nosedive to a seasonally adjusted annual sales volume of 619,000. months at the current sales rate in May. It was at 8.1

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Typically, with franchise organizations, it’s all about the sales process and bringing on more franchises. But if you’re a member of an MLS , you have to follow the same rules as everybody else. If you have to put a property in the MLS within 24 to 48 hours, then you play by the same rules.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In reality, consumers are better off and business competition thrives very much because of NAR’s rules and how well local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) broker marketplaces function. These local MLS broker marketplaces work in favor of consumers every day.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Bright MLS — one of the nation’s largest multiple listing services that covers six Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia — recently polled buyer and seller agents on what their clients are thinking during their home searches, including thoughts on mortgage rate hikes that have plagued other markets.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The deal brings 15 agents and more than $60 million in annual sales volume to Keller Williams. The team has a strong record of multimillion-dollar sales revenue, accumulating $118.5 million in sales volume and selling 326 units over the past two years. In 2024 alone, it has closed 182 sales for $64.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consider these two similar searches: “Multi-generational living homes for sale in Louisville, KY” “Homes for sale in Louisville, KY under $2,000,000 for multi-generational living” Google’s treatment of these searches evolved. It creates both challenges and opportunities for the industry.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, prices fell between August and September,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. months of supply at the current sales pace. Through the first nine months of 2024, annual home-price growth has averaged about 6%. Month over month, home prices were down 0.1%. “On

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

New-home sales receded slightly in February but continued to track above last year’s pace, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 662,000 last month, according to data published Monday by the U.S. decrease from the revised January rate of 664,000 sales, it also marks a 5.9% At the current sales pace, there is an 8.4-month

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

After a boost in July, the sales pace of new homes slowed in August, according to data published on Wednesday by the U.S. In August, the sales pace of new homes fell 8.7% On a year-over-year basis, new home sales were up 5.8%. The seasonally‐adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of August was 436,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Pending home sales increased by 3.4% Sales were essentially flat compared to one year ago. NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index increased to 78.2 New-home sales jumped by 8.8% New-home sales jumped by 8.8% Meanwhile, existing-home sales receded by 4.3% million home sales in 2024, a 9% increase from 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

While Robert Reffkin and Compass are touting their success while pushing for the repeal of the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy, eXp Realty executives are claiming that the North American MLS system is helping to fuel their companys strong international growth. In the U.S., but is originally from Egypt.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

After plummeting to an all-time low in May , pending home sales bounced back a bit in June, with the Pending Home Sales Index rising 4.8%, according to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Month over month, however, pending sales rose in all four regions. The index rose from a reading of 70.8

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