Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

The recent commission lawsuits have had a profound impact on real estate agents and brokerages as they face increased scrutiny and pressure to provide more transparency in their commission structures and potential conflicts of interest. Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With this capital infusion, the company aims to accelerate its product development, grow its team and pursue market penetration with real estate brokerages, MLS associations and other proptech companies nationwide. “We TTV Capital , Moderne Ventures , Erez Capital and other venture capital firms led the round of investment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I have spoken numerous times over the past 35 years about the fairness and efficiency of what I refer to as the Realtor marketplace , which is a combination of a multiple listing service with Realtor association oversight, supported by a majority of brokerage firms and sales agents. National portals as a replacement?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agents are moving between brokerages at a much slower pace than the post-pandemic peak seen in the summer of 2021, according to Relitix’s Agent Movement Index. The index shows the relative degree of movement between brokerages by experienced agents and is indexed to the level of mobility in January 2016.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Christie’s International Real Estate declined to comment on the development. The lawsuit was originally filed in early January. Though the suit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, it does not name NAR as a defendant.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Real estate agents are moving much less between brokerages than the post-pandemic peak seen in the summer of 2021, Relitix’s inaugural Agent Movement Index shows. The index shows the relative degree of movement between real estate brokerages by experienced agents and is indexed to the level of mobility in January 2016.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

RE/MAX brokerages and affiliates from any claims related to these lawsuits. It Like Anywhere, RE/MAX will no longer require agents to be “members of the National Association of Realtors or follow NAR’s Code of Ethics or the MLS Handbook.” independent regions, and U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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RIS Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As brokerages navigate the evolving landscape and move toward their strategic goals, leveraging services offered by the MLS becomes mission critical.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

The settlement also includes eliminating fields that display broker compensation on Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) and ending the blanket requirement that agents subscribe to an MLS to offer or accept compensation. In addition, buyers’ agents must have written agreements. There’s no such thing as a surprise at closing,” Broeksmit said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Other top lead generating tools included customer relationship management (31%) and MLS sites (28%). With 30% of brokerage business coming from referrals and repeat customers, it is critical for agents to build and maintain relationships with their clients.

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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

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. In order to get these feeds, Zillow had to comply with the vast majority of MLS’s that adopt the NAR’s “no commingling” rule.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

MMI – established in 2008 and headquartered in Utah – provides tech solutions for mortgage and real estate professionals that allows buyers to search out and view properties on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) through its MobilityRE app. The company in April named Brian McKray as its director of product development.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

California Regional MLS announced the relaunch of their integrated “submit offer” feature on Tuesday. CRMLS, the country’s largest MLS , services more than 110,000 real estate professionals in southern California. Shortly after the initial launch real estate brokerage Compass agreed to acquire Glide.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The two corporate brokerages have received preliminary approval of their settlement agreements in the Sitzer/Burnett, Moehrl and Nosalek commission lawsuits. Some of these provisions include no longer requiring agents to be members of the National Association of Realtors or following NAR’s Code of Ethics or the MLS Handbook.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The main takeaways from the case: (1) compensation offers will no longer be shown on the MLS. Listing agents may no longer offer co-broker commissions/compensation to buyer agents on the MLS but may still negotiate commissions/compensation between them privately and (2) written agreements for MLS participants acting for buyers.

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RIS Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

2 earnings call, Glenn Sanford, founder, CEO and chairman of virtual brokerage eXp directly addressed potentially looming new revelations in an ongoing lawsuit filed by several women who allege he and his company turned a blind eye to recruiters who drugged and raped women at company events.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is proposing a series of changes to its multiple listing services (MLS) in the new year, according to recent reports. Another motion would restrict MLS participants and subscribers from advertising their services to buyers and sellers as “free,” according to the list of recommendations.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

Through compelling messaging, content development, strategic campaigns and much more, these leaders are driving meaningful revenue growth for their organizations by engaging audiences and generating brand awareness day in and day out. Take a look at each honoree’s full profiles below.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

BH: Many agents I have spoken with say they don’t have a strong desire to be a NAR member but maintain their membership either for access to their local MLS, or because it is or was a requirement of their brokerage. The way that the MLS rules are just hurting me, hurting consumers, it is so bad.’ And he said, ‘It’s about time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

The development is intriguing for a few reasons. But, ironically, the emerging NAR-Zillow proxy battle comes three months after Zillow announced it is an NAR-member real estate brokerage. SentriLock spent the last 18 months writing code and otherwise developing the new appointment handler, said company CEO Scott Fisher. “And

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you’ve decided to join a brokerage in your market, what you bring to the table is not the only thing that matters. Researching your brokerage options. Don’t be the person to ask questions that can easily be Googled or found on a brokerage’s website. . Maybe you’ve narrowed your options down to three.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cyber security , 5G, drones and virtual reality are the technological developments expected to have the biggest impact on real estate in the next two years, according to a National Association of Realtors survey. One intriguing question is whether real estate brokerages are providing agents with the technology they need.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 15, 2021

And there’s one crucial ingredient all these innovations need: MLS data. Many tech vendors underestimate the complexity of working with MLS Data. The MLS ecosystem is a complex landscape that can challenge even the most motivated tech entrepreneurs that are trying to innovate and grow. Hurdle 2: Data Differences.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s sophisticated agents want more from their real estate brokerage than just the basic file review, supervision, and commission disbursement. So if you don’t want your brokerage to get left in the dust, you will need to step up the real estate services you provide. You’ll quickly overload yourself and your staff.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 11, 2022

Realogy has urged the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) to rethink one of its multiple listing service (MLS) policies. The large real estate conglomerate publicly called for NAR to end its MLS mandate requiring listing brokers to offer compensation so they can post a seller’s property on a REALTOR®-affiliated MLS.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Some of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages, including Keller Williams, RE/MAX , HomeServices of America as well as the National Association of Realtors , are facing three class action lawsuits (NAR is only named as a defendant in two lawsuits) that could result in the industry paying out tens of billions in damages.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 20, 2022

The concept of a Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, goes back more than 100 years when local boards would meet in a dusty office and exchange paper copies of listings. Today, the MLS landscape retains vestiges of that fractured, paper-driven local data sharing. It is not the flashiest or most dynamic part of the real estate industry.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask the average real estate agent or broker in America if they believe the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and brokerages are likely to win the bombshell Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit case on appeal. Would love for our MLS to not be a part of the organization. NAR is a scam,” one agent wrote.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

People have developed new digital behaviors and now expect: to have information about properties available in real-time online. A Real Estate Portal, Multiple Listing System (MLS), or simply marketplace is an online medium where real estate agents list their properties for sale or rent. Saimir Qalliu, Colliers International Indiana.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Self-paced online Gold Coast School $263 Classroom, livestream, or online MLS Campus Real Estate School $83.88 Self-paced online Gold Coast School $263 Classroom, livestream, or online MLS Campus Real Estate School $83.88 The school also has a tuition reimbursement program for students who join their partner brokerages.

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RIS Media

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Broker Public Portal (BPP) with Homesnap, which is owned and operated by MLSs and real estate brokerages, continues to innovate by generating massive listing exposure and free leads for agents. Bright MLS , an avid supporter of the BPP with Homesnap, added a new integration with Homesnap. Easy for Any MLS to Accomplish.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Here are three key areas of focus to drive business growth in 2023: Increase the value of your brokerage to your agents - With even more pressure on brokerages today , leaders are taking a hard look at t he value their brokerage provides to agents versus the value the brokerage extracts from those same agents.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They are developing strategies and tactics to take advantage of growth opportunities and focusing on brokerage logistics. Here are five strategies that today’s top brokerages are focusing on for dramatic growth as well as tactics and logistics to reach their goals: Scale focus. at the same rate of revenue increases.

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