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Buyers will have more options in 2024, but affordability woes will persist: Bright MLS

Housing Wire

Bright MLS released its National Housing Market Outlook on Wednesday, which shows that affordability will remain the biggest challenge for homebuyers next year. Here’s what homebuyers and sellers can expect in 2024, according to Bright MLS: Mortgage rates will fall, ranging between 6% and 6.5% for much of the year before reaching 6.2%

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Opinion: Local MLS broker marketplaces, rules equitably advance American homeownership

Housing Wire

In reality, consumers are better off and business competition thrives very much because of NAR’s rules and how well local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) broker marketplaces function. These local MLS broker marketplaces work in favor of consumers every day. And who is hurt most by that proposition?

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Amid legal uncertainty, MLSs explore cooperative compensation workarounds

Housing Wire

Moving past cooperative compensation In early August, Bright MLS , the nation’s second largest MLS, began allowing listing agents to use a $0 blanket offer of compensation for buyer brokers and still list a property on the MLS. Let’s break down the changes and the implications.

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DOJ advocates for prohibition of cooperative compensation in Nosalek commission lawsuit

Housing Wire

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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GSEs will not count buyer agent commissions as IPCs

Housing Wire

Based on the selling guides in use by the GSEs, property sellers are allowed to make financing concessions toward the borrower’s closing costs at a maximum amount of 2% to 9% of the property value.

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‘Find buyers before agents!’ Mortgage industry reacts to the NAR settlement

Housing Wire

At this early stage, it’s unclear how such commissions would be paid since buyers could pay their agents out of their pockets or negotiate commissions as a seller concession in the closing costs. 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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NAR, MBA ask for clarification on underwriting rules

Housing Wire

At the moment, IPCs “include concessions from the seller to the buyer for items that are traditionally paid by the buyer such as loan closing costs or rate buy-downs,” but as buyer agents are customarily paid by the listing agent, their fees are excluded from caps on the IPCs. Sellers or buyers can pay the buyer’s agent’s fees.

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