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MLSs turn to AI to catch commission lawsuit settlement violations

Housing Wire

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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Experts weigh usefulness of exclusive listings

Housing Wire

Office exclusives are becoming an increasingly significant segment of the Bright MLS marketplace, according to a recent Bright MLS study examining their impact on the broader housing market. Office exclusives take longer to sell and offer no price advantages over immediately promoting a home through the MLS, it said.

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11 clever ways to use ChatGPT for real estate in 2025 (+ prompts)

Housing Wire

Here is a simple, step-by-step workflow and prompt to create engaging, on-brand drip campaigns for your leads using ChatGPT. MLS 150–200 words, Zillow, Instagram caption, email blast blurb] Tone and style: [e.g., Act as a real estate brand strategist helping me define and refine my brand identity.

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The debate around Clear Cooperation ignores real solutions

Housing Wire

When I attended a national real estate conference last month, the Clear Cooperation Policy the provision requiring listings to be published on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing a property predictably surfaced as a hot-button issue. Sue Yannaccone is President and CEO of Anywhere Brands and Anywhere Advisors.

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Confused by the CCP debate? Here’s what to know

Housing Wire

The policy was a response to a proliferation of pocket listings and a rapid decline in housing inventory on the MLS, despite a large number of transactions still occurring. The CCP requires listing brokers to share a listing to the MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing the property. People just started holding back inventory.

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How online auctions deliver on the promise of pre-foreclosure sales

Housing Wire

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according to recent data from the Auction.com Market Validation Program (MVP) for pre-foreclosure sales. Falling Short. More than 1.7

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Homes.com grows with increased agent adoption, consumer demand

Housing Wire

Unprompted consumer awareness of the brand rose to 36% in Q1 2025, compared to only 4% before February 2024. Homes.com puts agents front and center with their names, their branding, their listings. Florance added that Homes.coms demo-to-close rate topped 50% in April, the highest ever for any CoStar sales team.

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