Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ill share everything you need to keep the homebuying process running smoothly from your first meeting to closing and beyond. From choosing a property to navigating the closing process, youll need to do a deep dive into their wants, needs, and deal breakers. Think of this as building a roadmap for their homebuying journey.

Closing

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.

MLS

Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The deal, which is expected to close in the next two weeks, was first reported by Inman News. Remine has more than 40 MLS customers totaling 600,000-plus agents and brokers nationwide. The firm was founded in 2015 and sold in 2021 to Unlock MLS , First MLS , Miami Realtors MLS and Heartland MLS for $53.5

MLS

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.

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2025

The integration streamlines mortgage closings, cuts costs for borrowers by up to 70%, and reduces loan cycle times — marking a shift toward faster software-driven title solutions for lenders and homebuyers alike. While NAF’s internal systems were not compromised, the lender has cut ties with the vendor and launched an investigation.

Title

Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

But survey data released Thursday by Bright MLS found that some standards were top priorities for some buyers. The Maryland-headquartered MLS conducted a survey in mid-December that included 700 prospective homebuyers who were renting or living with others. Walkability and school quality followed closely behind at 36.1%

MLS

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.

MLS

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.

Purchase and sale agreement

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.

Agents

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.

MLS

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

MLS

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.

MLS

Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

The company’s model features three residential listing packages — two flat-fee options starting at $999, and a virtual full-service package with a 1% commission paid at closing. A 3% listing fee often doesn’t reflect the actual effort involved. HouseSavings.com gives sellers more control, transparency, and value.”

MLS

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.

MLS

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

It often involves coordinating with stagers, hiring photographers, waiting on edited media, producing videos, drafting descriptions, designing flyers, and uploading everything to the MLS. That speed doesn’t just translate into saved time — it often results in stronger offers and higher close rates. Each step introduces friction.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

It’s with this same goal in mind that Northwest MLS (NWMLS) said it chose to implement referral fee disclosures. Northwest MLS has been working on this issue for nearly a year,” a spokesperson for NWMLS told HousingWire via email.

MLS

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?

Marketing

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.

MLS

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.

Marketing

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.

Agents

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.

Staging

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.

MLS

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.

MLS

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.

Debt-to-income ratio

Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2025

The report, written by CPC fellows Stephen Brobeck and Wendy Glich, examined both flat-fee brokers (who list a property on the MLS for a flat fee that typically ranges from $100 to $500) and low-commission brokers (who provide sellers with full personal service at a discounted commission rate).

Brokerage

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.

Renovation

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2025

According to a press release, the lawsuit seeks treble damages for the unlawful and anti-competitive conduct that forced PLS out of the market and deprived consumers and agents of a much-needed alternative to the outdated and monopolized MLS system. The PLS had nearly 20,000 members in 2019, according to the lawsuit.

MLS

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

A good flow looks something like this: Build rapport and trust Share a market overview Walk through your marketing strategy Review pricing insights Invite them to work with you Remember: You’re not “closing” a deal — you’re starting a relationship. Make the market your classroom Spend time every day inside your MLS.

Agents

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.

MLS

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

The Q2 2025 Agent Migration and Brokerage Model Performance Report — released Wednesday — draws on verified data from more than 100,000 agents across four major MLS regions. ” Johnson added that real estate associations are also helping close the gap. What’s attractive to the total addressable market in your area?”

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2025

Reffkin followed up last week’s LinkedIn post claiming that Zillow no longer displays all MLS listings to prospective homebuyers, with two more posts. Now, Zillow research claims homeowners lose money if they don’t use the MLS,” Reffkin wrote. “Now, When Zillow was making money buying homes off the MLS, it supported off-MLS sales.

MLS

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

Brokerage

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

The Robert Reffkin-helmed firm is asking the court to stop Zillow from enforcing its listing access standards , which bans listings that are not entered into the MLS within 24 hours of public marketing.

MLS

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.

Technology

Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

He didnt close his first deal an investor until month six. ” He did fairly well scouring his MLS and other sources for listings, but his business didnt take off until he niched down again, calling absentee homeowners using Mojo’s triple-line dialer. Wed love to hear from you. Reach out to us here: vetted@housingwire.com.

Agents

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.

Purchase and sale agreement

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.

MLS