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.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Gene Millman, president and CEO, REcolorado The value of the MLS cannot be understated. With the real estate industry adjusting to the National Association of Realtors commission lawsuit settlement agreement , the importance of a tried and trusted MLS business partner is undeniable. So, we take data protection very seriously.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

With the latest industry turmoil around compensation, steering and more due to lawsuits and the investigation by the Department of Justice , those outside the housing industry would assume the benefit to listing a home on the MLS would be negligible. “[That study] just showed the averages off-MLS versus the averages on-MLS.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Local Logic partners with some of the top tech vendors in the residential real estate industry, such as Black Knight , Constellation1 , CoreLogic , Inside Real Estate , and MoxiCloud. Local Logic also plans to continue expanding strategic partnerships with broker sites and MLS organizations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced a multiyear licensing agreement with REdistribute for permissioned access to multiple listing services (MLS) information. Launched in 2022 by BrightMLS and California Regional MLS , REdistribute is an MLS-owned company that includes licensed data from more than 40 MLSs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Todays report shows a strong labor market, but the employment picture has been a little bumpy over the past few months, as weather events and large labor strikes have complicated the outlook, Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Georgia MLS the Peach State’s largest real estate marketplace announced on Wednesday that it will partner with 12 local MLSs to enhance data access for all parties under one listing platform. ” Georgia MLS has made other technology -enabled efforts to enhance data availability for agents. .”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Real estate industry veteran Saul Klein is taking over as the CEO and director of SDAR’s wholly-owned San Diego MLS , according to an announcement on Tuesday. “I In July, Mike Mercurio , SDMLS’ longtime CEO left the MLS amid a cloud of alleged inappropriate financial behavior.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This is the lowest monthly jobs number since employment fell in December 2020,” Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. Residential construction gained 1,300 jobs in October, while residential specialty trade contractors shed 6,600 jobs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The United States continues to scrutinize policies and practices in the residential real estate industry that may stifle competition. DOJ notes in the filing that it did not participate in the litigation or in the negotiation of the proposed settlement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Formerly known as a collective of McEnearney Associates and Middleburg Real Estate/Atoka Properties , the firm’s agents serve both residential and commercial real estate clients across the Greater D.C. Howell is the current vice chairman of Bright MLS and has previously served as president of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

Multiple Listing Services (MLS) by those trying to disparage the system. The cooperative MLS system exposes home listings to the largest number of potential buyers with an offer of compensation to any successful buyers’ agent. It’s easy to understand what a market without an MLS would look like and why it doesn’t work.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Burton plaintiffs, who represent a proposed class of “individuals who sold homes on an MLS Listing Service servicing the District of South Carolina,” claim that NAR’s settlement “endeavors to insulate comprehensively the entire real estate industry from the punishment due it for its long, storied history of commission fixing.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Under these new standards , 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, within 24 hours of the start of a public marketing campaign. On Monday, Redfin , which is to be acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.75

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has decided to remove fields listing seller concessions from its platform. The nation’s largest MLS also added a field to indicate whether the amount being offered was a dollar amount of a percentage of the sales price of the home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Central to the suit is NAR’s Participation Rule , which required listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s agents in order to list a property on a Realtor-affiliated MLS. This rule is no longer in place due to the terms of NAR’s home seller commission lawsuit settlement , which went into effect in August.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Well, this settlement focuses on Multiple Listing Services (MLS) in various ways which will impact the property market. This means that MLS participants working with buyers must enter into a written agreement with the buyer before touring a property. Eric Bramlett is the owner of Bramlett Residential.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Homes.com continues to ascend and has become the second-largest residential real estate portal in the U.S., The platforms dedicated residential sales force has grown to 370 and is expected to hit 500 by the end of June. And we definitely dont divert leads. It happens in commercial real estate and across the globe.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

Utah-based Wasatch Front Regional MLS , which does business as UtahRealEstate.com , is also named as a defendant in the suit. As a self-described “technology driven industry disrupter,” Homie’s business model involves charging home sellers a flat fee to list their property on the MLS. “As

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RIS Media

MAY 7, 2025

Between an inventory shortage and high costs, residential real estate has been a sellers market across recent memory. However, the latest market survey from Bright MLS (which covers the mid-Atlantic United States) suggests that 2025 might finally tip the scales over to a buyers market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami recently wrote that higher mortgage rates “have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. In June, 38% of buyers successfully completed a purchase through Bright MLS while submitting only a single offer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The heated battle over the Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) has led to tectonic shifts in the residential brokerage world, but one company doesnt plan on utilizing a carve-out intended to appease opponents of the rule eXp Realty. CCP requires agents to place a listing on a NAR-affiliated MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing it.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. This includes — but is not limited to — posting to the MLS, hosting open houses and getting creative with social media. Also top of the list, agents are marketers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this new capacity, Greene will oversee operations, sales and customer service efforts, working to empower CoreLogic’s MLS clients. I am honored to be considered for this role. (…) I look forward to guiding my team as we set the pace to transform the residential real estate industry,” Greene said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The home seller plaintiffs and MLS Property Information Network’s (MLS PIN) efforts to address the Department of Justice’s “significant concerns” about their proposed settlement agreement in the Nosalek commission lawsuit were not enough. MLS PIN, however, has not been as fortunate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While the key statistics about a property will be available to buyers in the real estate listing description, residential buyers tend to shop with their emotions. Research other agents descriptions For newer agents who dont have much experience writing real estate descriptions, go through your MLS and read what other agents are writing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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. As of Jan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

The Council of Multiple Listing Services is joining Northwest MLS in filing a motion to request that it can file an amicus curiae brief in the Nosalek commission lawsuit. The MLS trade group, which represented 225 MLSs, including MLS PIN, wrote that it opposes the effort of the DOJ to “impose a policy preference on the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The REBNY and the Residential Listing Service (RSL) in NYC are governed by the Universal Co-Brokerage Agreement (UCBA) and are independent from the National Association of Realtors. Starting Jan. 1, REBNY rules will prevent the listing brokers from paying buyer agents and instead will require sellers to pay commissions directly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. Smart Data: Over 1 billion data points on residential and commercial real estate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MLS Property Information Network’s (MLS PIN) settlement agreement in the Nosalek class action antitrust buyer-broker compensation lawsuit has hit yet another snag. MLS PIN, which is New England’s largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS), filed the settlement agreement in late June.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.” 2023, the Masiello suit is seeking class action status for all persons who used any brokerage defendant to list and sell a home on an Arizona MLS and paid a buyer broker commission between Jan. commission ($10,250) to the buyer broker.”

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Inman

AUGUST 2, 2024

Residential portal behemoth Zillow has settled its antitrust lawsuit against Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service, Multiple Listing Service, Inc., over discontinuing its integration with ShowingTime+ in favor of MLS Aligned's listing platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the crux of the case is the allegation that commission rates are too high, it’s unfair that the seller pays the buyer’s agent’s commission, and that the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Conduct and MLS Handbook lead to set pricing. ” What’s at stake?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

When broken out, the residential construction sector added 31,700 jobs month over month, while the number of residential specialty trade contractors rose 7,400 from a month prior. Bright MLS’ chief economist Lisa Sturtevant, believes July’s jobs numbers will give the Fed more confidence about cutting interest rates in September.

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