Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The platform connects with MLS for seamless listing input, saving time and reducing duplicated efforts. Some LoneWolf features may even be included in your MLS membership, so check with your local association for details. Automate repetitive tasks, and integrate with MLS platforms and other tools that you use every day.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

OneKey MLS has acquired Mid-Hudson MLS according to an announcement on Monday, growing its membership to nearly 50,000 agents. The Poughkeepsie-based Mid-Hudson MLS is a broker-owned MLS serving over 1,400 agents in Dutchess County and the Mid-Hudson Valley area.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2024

Opendoor has partnered with nationwide multiple listing service My State MLS to equip more than 60,000 agents in each of the 50-plus markets Opendoor serves with access to the iBuyer’s cash-offer solution. My State MLS is a nationwide multiple listing service that allows members to list and search properties anywhere in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Help with marketing their home was the top response from sellers at 22%, while pricing the home competitively was a close second at 20%. In response to a “select all that apply” question about marketing methods, 86% of sellers said their agent posted the listing on an MLS, by far the highest option.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Public records & MLS misuse Scammers exploit MLS history and public records to appear credible. Delayed discovery Many fraudulent transactions go undetected until months after closing. Be cautious of urgency If a seller insists on a fast, remote closing, take extra care to verify legitimacy. Use a service.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Since our income is (usually) tied directly to closings, many real estate agents wonder how to close deals faster. Keep reading for expert tips on how to close real estate deals faster, plus ways to make your real estate transactions more seamless. Thats the quickest way to close a real estate deal fast.

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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

MAY 22, 2025

The MLS industry’s trade group, the Council of Multiple Listing Services ( CMLS ) is looking for a new CEO. Together, weve built something lasting an organization that supports, elevates, and connects the MLS community like never before. Leading CMLS has been the honor of a lifetime, Evans said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Dombrowski says his team has closed several successful off-market deals that satisfied both parties. We tell them, If you want maximum exposure, we go on the MLS. If were serious about transparency and competition, the MLS should be the standard for everyone, he said. Thats why the MLS was created in the first place.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

West Penn MLS finally got its way in the Moratis commission lawsuit. Stickman IV, who is overseeing the Moratis suit in the Western District of Pennsylvania, refused to stay the case for the MLS. Despite the closing of the case, the parties can request a status conference or seek to reopen the case by filing a motion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Matching listings appear on the client’s saved search channels, alongside MLS listings. Some agents call any non-MLS listings “ pocket listings.” Tim Quirk, Final Offer’s co-founder and chief strategy officer, said the new feature will help clients “test the market” before using an MLS.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

To close the conversation, Dwiggins explains his advocacy for keeping NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy in place, with a slight change. But if you’re a member of an MLS , you have to follow the same rules as everybody else. If you have to put a property in the MLS within 24 to 48 hours, then you play by the same rules.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The plaintiffs in the Nosalek commission lawsuit and defendant MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) have teamed up to ask Judge Patti B. The joint motion was filed on Wednesday by MLS PIN, Jennifer Nosalek, Randy Hirschorn and Tracy Hirschorn.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2025

CoStar Group is using Boost, its new Homes.com marketing feature, in an attempt to counter the bans by Zillow and Redfin on listings that are publicly marketed prior to being entered into the MLS. The boost on the listing will last until a sale closes. Agents can boost a listing for a one-time fee of $260.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As a result, the docket was listed as closed as of Thursday morning before being reopened at midday. That’s because the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file its statement of interest in the MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) settlement agreement is at the end of the day Thursday. The remaining $1.64

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

The nation’s second largest multiple listing service , Bright MLS , will begin allowing listing agents to put in a blanket offer of compensation for buyer brokers of zero dollars or more, starting on August 9. While Bright MLS, which serves clients in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

However, Compass itself acknowledges in their disclosure that limiting exposure by not listing on the MLS can reduce the number of showings, offers, and the final sale price. 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 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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Angela is the 11th-ranked agent in the state by sales volume, closing 38 sides and $29.82 But the New Hampshire Association of Realtors and Prime MLS had already introduced the changes, including mandatory buyer representation agreements and no offers of cooperative compensation on the MLS, about three weeks prior.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The third week of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit trial kicked off Monday with some final testimony from the defendants before making way for closing arguments from both parties. Davis also discussed the MLS and how the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Rule impacts both buyers and sellers during her time on the stand.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Leo CoPilot can help agents generate automated marketing materials by leveraging data from an MLS. The upgrade, known as Leo CoPilot, will serve as an agent command center and will also become the main interface agents use to manage reZEN, Real’s agent platform.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2024 alone, it has closed 182 sales for $64.1 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. The team has a strong record of multimillion-dollar sales revenue, accumulating $118.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The acquisition and launch of PX comes amid a debate over the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Policy , which requires Realtors to list a property on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing. The Massachusetts-based proptech firm has made several other acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gen Z (56%) and Gen X (50%) followed closely behind. A survey by Bright MLS found that most prospective buyers want homes to be “move-in ready” before a purchase, although that study had a smaller sample size of respondents compared to This Old House’s study. ” Meanwhile, the rest intend to make needed repairs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

The policy was a response to a proliferation of pocket listings and a rapid decline in housing inventory on the MLS, despite a large number of transactions still occurring. The CCP requires listing brokers to share a listing to the MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing the property. People just started holding back inventory.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 13, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock Industry Startup aims to bring assumable mortgages to the masses Could a new market emerge around homebuyers taking over a seller’s existing low interest rate loan? One proptech veteran thinks so.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It explicitly allows for such offers to be made off-MLS, however. If sellers cannot notify buyers about offers off-MLS, many buyers will not have the information they need to determine whether a home purchase is financially feasible.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While the DOJ had previously taken a stand against the practice of cooperative compensation, a practice the settlement still allows for, albeit off the MLS , this settlement term was not the one the DOJ took issue with. The DOJ believes the buyer broker agreements have the potential to “limit how brokers compete for clients.” “It

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

But could listing a client’s property on a private network instead of the MLS really be considered a breach of fiduciary duty? A study from Bright MLS backs up Willoughbys assertions. If you know that home is really going to sell for close to $1.1 million, but you still list it on the MLS for $1.7 million.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The essence of our industrys defense of modern MLS infrastructure rests upon a fragile foundation that says, “Its not perfect, but its the best we can do.” If we were to start fresh, no competent businessperson would design an MLS system like this. ” But lets cut through the noise and examine whats really going on.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

According to his testimony, he has no involvement in NAR or local association boards, but he does encourage agents to get involved and be members of their local association to have access to their local MLS , which he called “the single-best marketplace created.” Closing arguments in the commission lawsuit trial are expected on Monday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Two months prior to that, Zillow began moving homes not listed on the MLS out of initial user search results and onto a second tab. This adhered to an optional NAR rule , which prevents those who choose to adopt it from commingling MLS listings with non-MLS listings. In May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. billion and the number of transactions closed during the quarter jumped 77% to 33,617.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

level reported last summer, but inflation is still running far above the Fed’s target rate of 2%,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. “CPI data show that inflation is down significantly from the 9.1% Shelter was again a major contributor to this increase, rising 0.4% month over month, thanks to a 0.6%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

CCP makes it difficult for brokerages to acquire exclusive listings because the rule requires Realtors to advertise a home on a NAR-affiliated MLS within 24 hours of signing a listing contract. Reffkin argues that CCP limits sellers’ choice by forcing them to advertise on an MLS. decrease on the national median sale price.

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