Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service (CVR MLS) and Bright MLS have finalized a data sharing agreement that integrates real estate listings across a multistate region, the organizations announced Wednesday. By completing this integration with CVR MLS, were helping agents work smarter and more strategically across markets.

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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

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

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. The standards apply to listings regardless of any applicable local MLS rule, and they apply to all listings subject to an exclusive for-sale listing agreement between a broker and a seller.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2025

.” The disclosure form describes Compasss phased approach to marketing homes starting with a Private Exclusive period, followed by a Coming Soon stage and culminating in a public listing on the multiple listing service (MLS) during Phase 3.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2025

The lawsuit contains the same allegations as other commission lawsuits, accusing the real estate brokerage and MLS defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Piccinini Real Estate Services , aka JPAR ($700,000); Central New York Information Service ($125,000); and Brooklyn New York MLS ($95,000).

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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. As a flat-fee brokerage, Homie charged sellers a flat fee to list their property on the MLS. As a seller of brokerage services, not a consumer of them, it would be helped by higher prices,” the motion states.

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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.

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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

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

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

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

MARCH 31, 2025

Haag, in communication with NWMLS employees, said that real estate brokerage firms in Washington state, as members of NWMLS, have agreed to share all property listings with the entire brokerage community and the public for more than 40 years. Northwest MLS has declined to adopt those misguided, exclusionary rules.

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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. We are working to ensure that NAR and the MLS no longer force homeowners to market their properties in ways that disadvantage them. Compass has taken its fight against the Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) to another level.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

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. But if you’re a member of an MLS , you have to follow the same rules as everybody else. A lot of companies have banned that.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The new “360-degree product experience” will help brokerages and real estate professionals access data, manage listings and ensure accuracy. Realoq offers a customized MLS platform that allows unique branding and direct access to consumers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

NAR’s settlement agreement — which closed a number of antitrust class-action lawsuits against NAR and major brokerages for allegedly inflating Realtor commissions, and is pending final approval this month — outlines 13 practice changes required of NAR-affiliated MLSs. And businesses in the space are looking to capitalize on the moment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Defunct discount brokerage REX Real Estate is not giving up in its antitrust battle against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Two months before that, Zillow began moving homes not listed on the MLS out of initial user search results and onto a second tab. In May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations.

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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. MLS visibility still required Sellers who choose delayed marketing will be able to have their listing entered in the MLS and displayed to MLS participants, as well as shared through websites, social media, etc.,

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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. 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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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 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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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Northwest MLS , the largest multiple listing service in the Pacific Northwest, will not take part in the $418 million agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the Sitzer/Burnett case. Secret deals’ The NWMLS board of directors made the decision to opt out at its most recent meeting, the organization said Tuesday.

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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

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.

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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. According to the release, 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.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The brokerage announced this week that it has added the Milwaukee -based Houseworks Collective real estate team. Houseworks will also merge with the Jay Schmidt Group , another top-ranked Milwaukee-based team that led the area’s Metro MLS in sales volume for eight years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

In less than two weeks , offers of compensation for buyers’ brokers will no longer be permitted on any MLS in the U.S, eXp listing agents are not splitting their fees with buyer brokers and agents are allowed to follow their seller’s marketing wishes as long as they are complying with the rules of their local MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

“The acquisition of Private Collection accelerates Final Offers market share of enterprise brokerage customers seeking to provide their agents with a tool to share off-market listings within their brokerage as well as their clients and prospective clients,” Final Offer said in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

Over a week ago, Compass and Reffkin sent a letter to MLS executives asking them to not include delayed marketing exempt listings, which were created by the MLOS policy, in virtual office website (VOW) data feeds. Without these mechanisms, we believe more listings will end up off-MLS across brokerages, the letter states.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As Eben Moran of Stellar MLS aptly stated on RentSprees Its Closing Time podcast, the future lies in collaboration: How can we come together to make the industry better overall? This underscores the need for MLS s to focus on their core mission: empowering agents and brokers to succeed. today well ahead of the 25.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

District Court in Pennsylvania claiming that NAR, the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR) and the Greater Lehigh Valley MLS (GLVMLS) have violated federal civil rights statutes, engaged in unlawful discriminatory practices, breached their contracts, created a monopolistic system and broken federal antitrust laws.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) for the real estate industry, as well as JPARs solutions designed to enhance agent and brokerage performance. Rather than going in and searching the MLS yourself, and having to pull out those names and then email clients, you can actually automate that process and use AI.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

If a seller chooses to use the new delayed marketing pathway for their listing, it must be submitted to the MLS, but it can not be syndicated or included in internet data exchange (IDX) feeds. In 2021 , Zillow made the switch from individual syndication agreements with brokerages to IDX feeds, allowing it to obtain data directly from MLSs.

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