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JULY 7, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock Agents 20% down? The typical down payment for repeat buyers tends to be larger, NAR noted, and nearly doubled in the past decade amid housing equity growth.

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Real Estate News

JULY 18, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Real Estate News Industry Homeownership education needs a reboot — and a new messenger Loan officers and financial advisors need to meet aspiring buyers where they are as many increasingly turn to social media for home financing advice.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. Advanced search filters: Filter by pre-foreclosures, auctions, liens, vacancy and equity.

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McKissock Real Estate

JULY 22, 2025

Starting your own real estate brokerage firm is a bold step that combines entrepreneurial spirit with professional expertise. If you’ve been working as an agent and want to take control of operations, grow your income potential, and build equity in your brand, owning a brokerage might be your next big move.

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Inman

JUNE 13, 2025

Real estate affinity groups and inclusion leaders told Inman that by shifting potential liability away from local and state Realtor groups, brokerages will now be expected to rule on certain ethics complaints.

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Inman

AUGUST 1, 2025

At Inman Connect San Diego, Inman unveiled the winners of its flagship award, now in its 28th year, recognizing creativity across the real estate industry.

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Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The seller can secure monthly rental income while maintaining the potential for a future sale, while the buyer can live in the house and potentially build equity over time. The saying ” you get what you pay for” certainly applies to discount brokerages. This arrangement benefits both the seller and the buyer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

Affordability challenges, high mortgage rates and low for-sale inventory have created a housing market thats making life difficult for large brokerages. While the transaction prompted some raised eyebrows, it makes sense for a private equity firm thats known for preparing companies to go public to buy in a down cycle for the housing market.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 5, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock By the Numbers Sellers start holding back as market demand drags Mortgage rates ticked down slightly this week, but lower rates may not be enough to motivate buyers as affordability continues posing challenges.

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Inman

JULY 22, 2025

Troy Palmquist talks with Jordan Levine, SVP and chief economist at California Association of Realtors, to answer the question, "Are we really in a buyer’s market?"

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Inman

APRIL 23, 2025

Fair housing is not just about reacting to injustice anymore, LIBOR CEO Doreen Spagnuolo writes. It's about proactively building a better future.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Maverick Systems launched a year ago with the intent to help industry leaders better predict when agents might leave their office and who to target from market competitors.

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Real Estate News

JULY 16, 2025

"Families who work hard, build equity, and sell their homes should not be punished with massive tax bills," Greene said. In addition to providing tax relief, the bill would spark market activity by "removing a key disincentive to selling," according to a press release from Greene's office.

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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. However, REcolorado said it objects to the associations selling it to an outside private equity firm. “We

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Jensen suit is seeking class action status for anyone who sold a property listed on Wasatch Front MLS , Washington County MLS , Iron County MLS or Summit County MLS between Feb. 9, 2020, and the present, and paid a buyer broker commission.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

REcolorado was surprised to learn this week that its primary shareholders — the Denver Metro Association of Realtors (DMAR) and the South Metro Denver Realtor Association (SMDRA) — have agreed to sell the company to a private equity firm.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

” REcolorado is a multiple listing service (MLS) with 26,000 members. Its board members and leadership were surprised last week when they received a letter of intent from DMAR and SMDRA to sell to MAZL since they had been in negotiations to buy the MLS since February.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Stone Point Capital has purchased Vista Equity Partners’ stake in real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies. Financial terms of the transaction with Vista Equity Partners weren’t disclosed. million agents, 8,000 brokerages and hundreds of MLS ’ and associations in North America.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. I do believe that the MLS is derived from the concept of cooperation and compensation,” Bailey said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In response, many brokerage firms have adapted their business models to navigate these challenges. brokerage firms continues to decline, sitting near 10% by the end of 2024. Additionally, segmentation among brokerage firms is likely to increase, driven by differences in cost structures and technology adoption.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

On Wednesday, West Penn MLS , a defendant in the Moratis suit, filed a motion to stay the case, noting that it has opted into the NAR settlement agreement. In the motion, West Penn MLS said that it is seeking a stay until Judge Stephen R.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Although the verdict has yet to be announced, Stella said he has been seeing changes to how MLS and agents operate over the past few years. Like Stella, Moffett also believes changes to MLS access may arise as a result of the lawsuit and the provisions outlined in the two settlement agreements. “A That is what they forget.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Yet another national real estate brokerage firm has reached a settlement agreement in two of the major class action antitrust lawsuits facing the real estate industry. In the SEC filing, RE/MAX stated that the settlement was not an admission of liability.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

REX Homes , the discount brokerage behind an anti-trust lawsuit against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors , announced its second round of layoffs late last week. The company is not publicly traded, but it has earned several rounds of private equity funding. In June, a judge ruled in favor of Zillow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We started this process back in June when I resigned our NAR board seat, which are appointed to the top 50 brokerages in the country,” Rath told HousingWire in an interview Tuesday. model of local MLS broker marketplaces has long been — and still is — considered the best value in the world. There is a lot of unwinding to do there.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the Times investigation, three women described a pattern of inappropriate behavior by Parcell, who runs the Kenny Parcell Team at Equity Realty in Spanish Forks, Utah. Parcell also wrote that the allegations were false, and claimed he was the victim of character assassination. NAR has over 1.5 Most of its leaders and executives are male.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The biggest combined brokerage company in the country in terms of all their brands, just said, ‘We’re out. Worst case scenario, the broker representing the buyer will have to negotiate their own fee with their client and the seller can no longer be compelled to make a blanket offer of compensation in order to list on the MLS,” Murray said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to CMLS, conceding the “competitive vibrancy, efficiency, openness, and equity” for “lesser, more shortsighted considerations,” would be a mistake. Evans wrote that if CCP is repealed, sellers would “pay dearly” and buyers might find it “more difficult, and perhaps more expensive, to see a full picture of their options.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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Lending

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. The GSE’s $8B profit in 2Q could buy most of the brokerage industry. Success means zero defect loans, costing $2K to manufacture, for 5M new homes, built in the right places.

Lending

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.

Agents

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

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Lending

Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2023

Three women went public with what was described as a pattern of inappropriate behavior by Parcell, who runs the Kenny Parcell Team at Equity Realty in Spanish Forks, Utah. Sixteen complaints reviewed by the Times involved Parcell , a Utah Realtor who began climbing the leadership ranks in 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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Inman

JUNE 26, 2024

Denver Metro Association of Realtors and South Metro Denver Realtors Association say sale to private equity firm would offer protection during a time of intense litigation in the real estate industry.

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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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