Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

NAR recently published an FAQ page related to the settlement agreement where it clarifies that the phrase “working with” is meant to “distinguish MLS participants who provide brokerage services to a buyer from MLS participants who simply market their services or just talk to a buyer.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

Multiple Listing Services (MLS) by those trying to disparage the system. In the process, they had to rent a home for four months between their sale and their purchase given “simultaneous closings” are not a practice there. Closings within 30 to 45 days is remarkable and typical in most markets here. Compare all that to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

HomeServices of America , the last remaining brokerage defendant in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett antitrust commission case , has agreed to pay $250 million in damages to settle lawsuits that will change agent compensation across America. billion in sales volume in 2023, behind only Compass , Anywhere Advisors and eXp Realty.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Agents are the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fact, considering inter-family and estate transfers as well as for-sale-by-owners, as many as 20% of all transactions may not include the use of an agent. Despite that, it has less than 1% market share of all transactions. Some say the MLS enables U.S. None of which are geared to police agent conduct in the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Similar to the other commission lawsuits, the latest two take aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires the listing broker to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker to list the property on the MLS. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

With several of the major brokerage houses already having settled, NAR was in the untenable position of fighting to protect a business model that was already compromised by the settlements.” An industry insider at a top brokerage shared a similar sentiment. “We It also agreed to prohibit broker compensation appearing in the MLS fields.

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HomeLight

MARCH 27, 2024

Selling your South Carolina home For Sale By Owner (FSBO) can lead to substantial savings but it’s a lot of work. In this post, we’ll dissect the pros and cons of flat fee MLS services in South Carolina, highlight key providers, and dig into pricing, benefits, and effectiveness. Unsure About Selling FSBO in South Carolina?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

“In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We In addition to Compass’ market share gains, the firm also recorded a 10% annual bump in revenue to $1.05

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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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

that you have to be a Realtor to get access to the Realtor-owned and operated MLS. But it is interesting, among other places, like California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina and, functionally, the state of Washington, you don’t have to be a Realtor to get access to the MLS. It is a sales business,” Stella said. “If

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

The incident left agents from all across the country scrambling for workarounds to navigate the disruption to their marketing and property sales efforts, the North Bay Business Journal first reported. It’s also been challenging for agents to keep track of sold properties since the attack as their local MLS system has been out.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In its statement of interest relating to MLS Property Information Network ’s (MLS PIN) settlement agreement with the Nosalek commission lawsuit plaintiffs, filed Thursday evening, the DOJ recommended that Judge Patti D. Saris deny preliminary approval of MLS PIN’s second amended settlement agreement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In response, Blefari said that HomeServices does not require agents to become NAR members nor participate in the MLS. “Maybe the local company or the MLS does, but we don’t,” Blefari testified. He refused to provide evidence about the purpose of the rule, but he admitted the rule was a core component of the MLS.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a vital resource in the real estate market. It provides a comprehensive database of properties available for sale, maintained by real estate brokers. Understanding MLS abbreviations is crucial when navigating property listings. What is the Multiple Listing Service?

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Notorious ROB

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Last year, I wrote something up on BrightMLS’s Off-MLS Study saying that the conclusions of the report were overstated and based on thin and problematic data. In particular, I had issues with the data presented: Simply put, there is a large discrepancy in the median sale price between On-MLS homes and Off-MLS homes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

According to an article by HousingWire Reporter Brooklee Han, initially filed in April 2019, the lawsuit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule , which requires listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ agents in order to list the property on a Realtor-affiliated multiple listing service (MLS). It ranked No.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

Meanwhile, trade groups representing lenders believe that more details on the settlement are needed to understand its coming impact on the housing market. He said he’s also interested in seeing where homes will be listed since they will no longer be required to be in the MLS system.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Trading volumes in eight residential brokerage or listings companies rocketed up 319% to almost 80 million shares on Friday. Of these eight companies, CoStar and Zillow are by far the largest by market capitalization. The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models.

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RIS Media

APRIL 29, 2022

MoxiWorks has announced that Troy Rech has joined the company as vice president of MLS Sales. Rech’s responsibilities include heading up the MLS sales arm of MoxiWorks and working with local and state REALTOR® associations. We’re opening the doorway for true collaboration between brokerages and MLSs.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Central to the complaint is NAR’s Clear Cooperation policy, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By This system, with its veiled surcharges, illegally warps the real estate market.” 22, 2019, and the present.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Off-market properties might be the answer if you want to avoid competition from other buyers when looking for your next home. These home sales are sometimes known as pocket listings or quiet homes and aren’t added to the multiple listing services. Finding off-market properties for sale can be a challenge.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These lawsuits threaten to radically reshape the residential brokerage landscape, and could be the catalyst for a fat decline in the annual commission pool as well as the industry shedding as many as 80% of agents, according to a team of analysts at Keefe Bruyette Woods. Who’s most exposed? But that statement comes with a big asterisk.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the motion, HomeServices claimed that no evidence has been presented to show they conspired with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and other brokerages on rules for commissions. The day started with video depositions of four real estate brokerage executives.

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Maximum Exposure Real Estate

AUGUST 13, 2021

Listing on MLS For Sale by Owner With Flat Fee MLS Service Do you want to get your home listed on MLS for sale by owner? To list in MLS is thought of as the “holy grail” of real estate marketing by many people. One of the questions those thinking of selling for sale by […].

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

So while I don’t want to come off as unsympathetic to those that are trying to find a place to rent, I did find this MLS listing humourous. After all, you just never see this on MLS: Wow, that’s a lot to digest! First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “room rental” on MLS before.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a data intelligence and market insight tool provider for the mortgage and real estate industries, has acquired Bonzo – a relationship management and mortgage marketing platform. The company has more than 2,000 clients, according to its website.

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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. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms. Unclear is whether the California MLS may renege its relationship with Glide.

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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. Use quantifiable data, such as your total volume of sales or number of years in the business, to demonstrate your credibility.

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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. By the terms of the Settlement, RE/MAX agreed to pay a total settlement amount of $55.0 million … into a qualified settlement fund.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Massachusetts-based MLS Property Information Network, Inc. MLS PIN), announced Erminio Grasso as its new president and chief executive officer. who has been in the real estate industry for 44 years and grew MLS PIN into an industry leader during her 23-year tenure.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

There is simply a new NAR rule that applies to all NAR member and NAR MLSs that does not allow cooperative compensation to be offered on the MLS.” According to the panel, the agent would not be allowed to keep the excess funds and the buyer could instead use it to possibly negotiate a lower sale price for the property.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Geez, what happened to “More MLS Musings?” However, the Brokerage Remarks provide a slightly different explanation: Okay. What if it’s listed for $1 and on the market for 84 days? This is an abuse of the MLS system, right? So it’s a den? Or it’s not a den? It fits a desk?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recruiting and keeping the best talent is critical in today’s real estate market. It’s also becoming more challenging as production takes a hit from lower home sales. On a national basis, year-over-year MLS production reports show the average real estate agent’s income is down 28%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Things are continuing to heat up in Zillow Group’s legal battle with discount brokerage REX Homes , as the September 18, 2023, trial date looms ever closer. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. REX chose to use Zillow’s services to advertise their for-sale properties on Zillow – for free.

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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. . Double-digit sales. Double-digit reviews.

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