Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

San Francisco-based real estate technology firm RealScout on Thursday announced that its making its RealScout Exclusives platform available to all brokerages. RealScout said that the nationwide launch of the platform follows years of successfully powering exclusive listing strategies for leading brokerages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

According to the release, this new policy compliments NAR s existing MLS policies and that it will exist in conjunction with CCP.The trade group feels the policy provides sellers and their agent more options and choice when marketing a property.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Most of the suits cite NAR’s Participation Rule, which required listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s brokers in order to list a property on an MLS. But West Penn MLS , the multiple listing service at the center of the Moratis suit, is owned by local brokers and not a Realtor association.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

As MLSs across the country work to implement the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Multiple Listing Options for Sellers (MLOS) policy, brokerages and some Realtor associations are busy creating the new disclosures needed for delayed marketing exempt listings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Zillow will begin a phased rollout of its listing access standards policy, which bans publicly marketed listings not entered into the MLS , on May 28. markets before expanding nationwide over the summer. The rollout The initial rollout of the policy will begin in large U.S. What’s allowed?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

In the ongoing debate over NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy , one question looms large: who really benefits when a single agent or brokerage represents both sides of a real estate transaction? Many also point to the fact that private listings essentially lock out lower-income buyers who rely on open MLS access. The result?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Mauricio Umansky , the CEO of The Agency , who does not support CCP, agreed with Wilcox that in most situations, sellers get the most benefit from listing on the MLS. The easiest path to selling a property is to put it on the MLS and broadcast it on all the portals. What makes the U.S. industry work so well is that cooperation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Under the National Association of Realtors (NAR) new Multiple Listing Options policy, the trade group is allowing listing agents, with the signed consent and direct permission of their seller client, to delay publicly marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feeds and syndication.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

But while Zillow did get its wish after NAR chose to uphold CCP for now, the trade groups new Multiple Listing Options for Sellers policy which creates the concept of a delayed marketing exempt listing has the potential to put some serious strain on Zillow and other listing portals like Realtor.com and Homes.com.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Some agents use off-market listings as a way to double-dip commissions, Willoughby said.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 14, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Real Estate News Agents Agents Decoded: How to get more from your MLS It may not be flashy, but your MLS is still one of your most powerful tools. Without the MLS, listing visibility would suffer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A month after launching its new Private Exclusive Listings (PX) feature, agent-driven offer, negotiation and collaboration platform Final Offer has acquired Private Collection , a source of listing information for off-market properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Whether youre running a large brokerage, managing a small team or working on your own, the right transaction management platform can take the worry out of compliance and lighten your workload. The platform connects with MLS for seamless listing input, saving time and reducing duplicated efforts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

On Thursday, eXp Realty announced that, as a brokerage, it was signing on to abide by Zillow s standards for listing transparency. At the core of Zillows listing standards is the belief that if a listing is marketed to any home shoppers, it should be marketed to all home shoppers. where all the data is siloed, Pareja said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

As the real estate industry faces unprecedented transformation, Century 21 Real Estate has stayed active through aggressive franchise growth, market consolidation and engagement with evolving homebuyer demographics. We announced numerous recent moves in markets including California , Florida , Oregon , Georgia , Colorado and Nevada.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Specifically, they are reaching out to home sellers who experienced a price drop or significant days on market. Recently, some brokerage firms have advocated for MLS rules that facilitate hiding property listings from consumers and lobbied the real estate industry to accommodate those exclusionary practices, he stated.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the suit, Homie claims it was harmed by the anticompetitive practices of NAR and the brokerage defendants. It said it filed the suit to “recover the damages … suffered as an excluded competitor foreclosed by the Defendants’ conduct from effective competition in the relevant market.” And Homie is a broker!

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

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. This shift is prompting real estate professionals and consumers alike to reevaluate implications of this marketing approach.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

The brokerage is giving agents at all brokerages access to Coming Soon, which houses its exclusive listings. Compass says that the listings protect home sellers against negative insights, such as days on market. Coming Soon is part of Compasss three-phase marketing plan for homes. Coming Soon is next.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

According to a statement from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on Monday, Redfin.com will not publish any listings that have been publicly marketed before being shared with all real estate websites via the MLS. Kelman said Redfin is doing this because it believes that all buyers should be able to see all listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2025

District Court in Seattle against Northwest MLS (NWMLS) over NWMLSs Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) on Friday. NWMLS is a broker-owned MLS, rather than owned by the Realtor association, meaning that it is not subject to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) rules.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

In the 1960s, brokers created the first MLS in booklet form to create a true marketplace of the inventory that was for sale. NAR has announced new flexibility in the CCP for NAR-affiliated MLSs that gives sellers more choice about how and when their homes are marketed. How days on market are calculated.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Under what NAR is calling its MLS Listing Options for Sellers policy , sellers will have the option to delay marketing their listing publicly as long as they sign the required disclosure. During the time period, the listing will be able to be seen by other MLS participants through their local MLS platform.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Chicago-based Maverick Systems is rapidly expanding its real estate data analytics platform nationwide, offering brokerages a new tool in the competitive landscape for experienced agents. It focuses on eight key Multiple Listing Service (MLS) markets, including four in the nation’s 20 largest markets.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. Leo CoPilot can help agents generate automated marketing materials by leveraging data from an MLS. From the RISE stage in Las Vegas , Real unveiled three new products for agents and clients on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Real estate marketing startup Realoq is launching a new data solution for brokers and agents. The new “360-degree product experience” will help brokerages and real estate professionals access data, manage listings and ensure accuracy.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

“I’ve never seen an environment where compliance has taken such precedent over everything else,” said John Heithaus, chief marketing officer at Ocusell , a compliance software firm. “If 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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The race is on for brokerages to capture clients in an incredibly difficult housing market, and Compass believes a new technology offering will give it an advantage. The brokerage on Monday launched Compass One, a client-facing portal that provides a guide through the process of both home buying and selling.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Overall, there aren’t any requirements on the franchise, which allows us to tap into a different market than our competitors. The lack of training and guidance by brokerages is horrible. Dwiggins: Those forms are created by a committee of competing brokerages, which is literally how we got into the lawsuit to begin with.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2025

The California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS), the nations largest MLS , is pushing back against the Multiple Listing Options for Sellers (MLOS) policy from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), explaining that it will not implement the new measure. CRMLS argues this approach is not only redundant but ineffective.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

” Under Zillows new listing standards , announced Thursday, if a listing is publicly marketed to any buyer it must be put in an MLS and be able to be published on Zillow as well as other sites that receive internet data exchange (IDX) feeds. . “Through this partnership we are setting a new standard in the industry.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

After Jensen took over as CEO in 2015 , MRED created an internal MLS private listing network after survey feedback from subscribers found that many were frustrated by the number of pocket listings and sales occurring. We dont even plan on making any changes because of the new policy, Rebecca Jensen , the president and CEO of MRED, said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

This policy created the category of delayed marketing exempt listings, which allows agents and their sellers to withhold listings from IDX feeds and syndication while still maintaining the spirit of NARs Clear Cooperation Policy. Like eXps other forms, this form is available to any brokerage, portal or MLS in the country.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

Were excited about enhancing the search experience to reflect this progress as we expand single search on a by-market basis. Vocal critic Zillow was forced to create the two-tab listing display it utilizes in some markets to comply with the no-commingling rule. The company began using an IDX feed to power its listing portal in 2021.

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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 22, 2025

Rechat a real estate software company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools for brokerages and agents has named marketing and property technology veteran Audie Chamberlain as head of strategic growth and communications. Theres a reason top brokerages like SERHANT. run their entire operation on Rechat.

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