Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

If you sold a home and paid a commission to a real estate agent, you may be part of class action settlements,” the postcards read. The firm was appointed as the designated settlement administrator for the suit in 2022, over a year prior to any settlement agreements being reached. Millions are expected to be sent out across America. “If

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Based on NAR’s settlement, agents working with buyers will need a signed buyer representation agreement starting in mid-July, pending final court approval of the settlement. Across the nation, buyer broker agreements have always been recommended, but the Northwest MLS required them and then the state of Washington began requiring them.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The franchise, which has more than 300 agents spread across five offices in the Puget Sound region in Washington State, is the first privately-owned Coldwell Banker franchise to separate from NAR. This latest development comes on the heels of several other high-profile departures from NAR.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Sheila Reddy, CEO at Mosaik, to talk about how the company is leveraging their experience building technology solutions for healthcare to benefit real estate agents and homebuyers. So everything’s really designed with both of those viewpoints in mind.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

District Court in Seattle determined that Zillow did not make deceptive change to its only agent listings that forced REX Real Estate to go out of business. In a verdict announced late Friday afternoon, a jury in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

During the trial, a Seattle jury found that REX did not prove Zillow used false advertising it its decision to put non-MLS listings on a different section of the website and that Zillow proved its defense on REX’s second claim that Zillow acted deceptively and unfairly.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

In REX’s Lanham Act portion of its lawsuit, the firm alleges that Zillow “falsely labeled REX listings as ‘Other Listings’ rather than ‘Agent Listings’ when REX’s listings were in fact offered by licensed real estate agents,” according to earlier court documents. “It REX ceased its brokerage operations in mid-May of 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Another day and another class-action antitrust commission lawsuit accusing the real estate industry of colluding to inflate real estate agent commissions has been filed. 1, 1996 through the present, purchased in the United States residential real estate that was listed on an NAR MLS.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Djon said these leaders are “at the top,“ with the ability to recruit other agents and override what the unit does, which is a way to retain these top-performing employees.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Filed last Wednesday in the Western District of Missouri, the Umpa suit, named after its lead and only plaintiff Daniel Umpa, accuses the real estate industry of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS) has announced the full release of its REcenterhub dashboard across its three MLS systems: CRMLS Matrix, CRMLS Paragon, and Flexmls. Developed internally by CRMLS, the REcenterhub dashboard introduces a range of new features designed to streamline productivity for real estate professionals.

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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. Remember — your prospective clients are glancing through dozens of agents’ websites.

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RIS Media

AUGUST 7, 2023

(HGAR) and OneKey® MLS recently hosted a virtual panel featuring real estate experts who discussed New York’s cooperative building sector.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Zillow is mostly known for its practice of selling buyer agent leads through its Premier Agent program, while Homes.com has touted its “your listing, your lead” model, which focuses on seller agents. In prior notes, KBW had also referred to CoStar as the “top beneficiary” of a change to the buyer agent landscape.

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Real Trends

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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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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RIS Media

MARCH 14, 2022

Stellar MLS, the nation’s third-largest MLS, announced its plans to reimagine the offer- management experience. Collaborating with SkySlope, Stellar MLS will co-create the industry’s first offer-management system to integrate into MLS and broker platforms.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Washington wrote that the “Court concludes that REX has failed to present evidence of the conspiracy alleged in its Amended Complaint, namely, a purported agreement between NAR, Zillow, and non-party MLSs to segregate, conceal, and demote non-MLS listings on Zillow’s websites and mobile platforms.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

During his testimony, Alford said that NAR’s Participation Rule “is not designed to benefit home sellers.” He also alleged that it was created to protect the trade group from non-MLS affiliated brokers, according to a tweet from Real Estate News reporter Austin Alonzo.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

REX, an Austin-based real estate startup, said Zillow’s new listing layout, which includes tabs entitled “agent listings” and “other listings,” positions its listings in a “recessed obscured, and deceptive tab that consumers do not see.” Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. billion visits. billion visits. .”

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RIS Media

APRIL 28, 2022

Leaders from California Regional MLS have collaborated to launch Venture MLS, the first venture capital firm rolled out by a Multiple Listing Service, the organization has announced. The firm’s first project, Venture MLS Fund I, will back seed and early-stage real estate technology companies.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Flotsam and Jetsam is also an American thrash metal band: Flotsam and Jetsam are also characters from The Little Mermaid: But today, flotsam & jetsam will be the snippets, scraps, offcuts, and sundries found in my “MLS Musings” folder, most of which are from 2022. The post More MLS Musings! 2) Toilet seat proudly up.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Links and mentions of Wisconsin flat fee MLS companies in this post do not constitute an endorsement. But to attract the right buyer, it’s crucial that your house shows up on the multiple listing service (MLS). In that case, a flat fee MLS company may be worth considering for your Wisconsin home sale.

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Real Trends

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

California-based MLS software provider Rapattoni Corporation , which partnered with Restb.AI last August to introduce a photo description solution for MLS users, announced on Monday that it has upgraded the terms of the agreement to include all additional solutions in Restb.AI’s MLS Product Suite. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As tradition goes, I usually dump every remaining “MLS Musing” into one post at the end of the year, and the readers have been quite active of late sending me examples of what amuses them while browsing listings. – A colleague in my office sent me these: How does this even get on MLS? Those were a joke.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Two months prior, in January 2021 , Zillow began moving homes out of its initial search results for sellers who chose not to use agents adhering to the NAR and local multiple listing service (MLS) practices, creating a two-tab design for agent listings and “other listings.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Parcell denied that he had done anything inappropriate, saying the picture in question was of a promotional belt buckle and he was asking for input on the design. Most of its leaders and executives are male.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

The Northern Nevada Regional MLS (NNRMLS) is teaming up with Lone Wolf Technologies to launch the HomeSpotter app, the companies announced on Tuesday. The 4,000 members of NNRMLS now have access to their own branded mobile MLS home search app, HomeSpotter, powered by Lone Wolf.

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RIS Media

APRIL 27, 2022

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and several national brands named in a lawsuit over an NAR policy announced that they are fighting a recent court decision designating the case as a class-action lawsuit. At issue is an MLS policy that the case file referred to as the “Adversary Commission Rule.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to Ketchmark, the buyer’s agent portion of the commission on Ellis home sale accounted for 20.55% of her net equity, meaning the commissions for both agents ate up roughly 40% of the equity she had accumulated on the property. “It We had no problem paying for an agent to sell our house,” Burnett said.

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Easy Agent Pro

AUGUST 11, 2022

3 Best Agent Image Alternatives (In-Depth Look). Real estate agents survive on finding new leads and converting these leads to future sales. A number of established web design companies specialize in building and maintaining web pages for real estate agents, including Agent Image, Easy Agent PRO and others.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The consumer-facing search experience was devised and is run by California Regional MLS (CRMLS), Bright MLS and REcolorado. It was released in the first quarter of 2023 and designed as an ad-free bridge between consumers and listing data.

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Real Trends

JUNE 7, 2023

Real estate agents have a lot on their plates, which is a key reason why they should use artificial intelligence (AI) technology tools when possible to streamline their workflow. Here are eight AI tools that can significantly help agents. The post 8 AI tools to help real estate agents work efficiently appeared first on RealTrends.

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Easy Agent Pro

AUGUST 11, 2022

8 Best Real Estate Website Builders for Agents. If you’re a real estate agent, you know that having a well-designed and user-friendly website is essential for your business. Features: Look for a real estate website builder that offers all the features you need, such as IDX integration, lead capture forms and MLS search.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Additionally, Zurple’s automated pipeline management helps identify the most promising leads, notifying agents when they become hot leads. Learn more Use this tool: Lab Coat Agents Lab Coat Agents (LCA) is a big deal in the real estate world, starting from a Facebook group and now boasting over 162,000 members. ProspectsPLUS!

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