Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The filing came after a court status hearing last Friday during which Judge John W. District Court in Los Angeles decided to place the suit in “inactive status” due to the settlement agreements reached with Bright MLS , California Regional MLS and Midwest Real Estate Data last Wednesday. Holcomb of U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

District Court in Las Vegas by Nathaniel Whaley, who sold a home in Las Vegas in April 2022 and paid a buyer broker commission. ” The plaintiff is seeking class action status for the suit with the class consisting of anyone who listed a home on one of the eight MLSs named as a defendant and paid a buyer broker commission between Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the complaint, the plaintiffs take aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers brokers in order to list a property on a NAR-affiliated MLS. 17, 2020, and the present. 17, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to the filing, Masiello was “required to pay a 2% commission ($8,200) to the seller broker and a 2.5% commission ($10,250) to the buyer broker.” Similar to all of the other copycat suits filed after the Sitzer/Burnett jury verdict in late Oct. 5, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The policy requires agents to provide a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on the MLS. “The effect of these rules is not simply that the seller must pay the buyer broker’s compensation,” the complaint states. commission and the listing broker a 3.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Grace suit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list the property on the MLS. 8, 2019, and the present. 8, 2019, and the present.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Instead MetroList is owned and operated by local Realtor associations and California Real Estate Brokers, Inc. Despite not being affiliated with NAR, MetroList adopted a rule similar to NAR’s Participation Rule, requiring listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas. 13, 2019, to the present.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Central to the complaint is NAR’s Clear Cooperation policy, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By Moreover, they preclude a buyer broker from presenting offers to sellers that are predicated on lowering this commission.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

The suit takes aim at the National Association of Realtor’s Participation Rule which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on a NAR affiliated MLS. As with all of the other commission lawsuits, Tuccori’s suit is seeking class action status.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Meanwhile, Michael Strauss , its only loan officer, now has an inactive status on his license, according to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). However, the Illinois regulator issued orders on Feb. While the decision was under appeal, Strauss was brokering loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

HW: How have these challenges affected the broker and borrower experience with non-QM? By replicating those automated processes into the non-QM process, we can create speed and efficiency for our broker partners with tools that they are familiar with from doing QM business.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Originally filed in 2019, the lawsuit won class-action status shortly after, and alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyers’ brokers a commission in order to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The suit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which is referred to as the Cooperative Compensation Rule in this suit, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list the property on a Realtor-affiliated MLS.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Grace is seeking class action status for the suit, with the proposed class being any homeowner who listed and sold a home on BAREIS MLS between Dec. The lawsuit was filed by Christina Grace, who sold a house listed on Bay Area Real Estate Information Services MLS (BAREIS MLS) in April 2020 and paid a commission to the buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Jutla is representing herself in the suit and she is not seeking class-action status. She is also filing the suit as both a home seller and a homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Martin suit accuses the real estate industry of violating antitrust laws and taking part in a “conspiratorial scheme” by requiring sellers and their listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker. 13, 2019, and the present and the plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Umpa sold his Ohio home with Redfin and his Maryland home with Compass , and the suit states that he “paid a substantial buyer-broker compensation,” in both transactions. Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e., The lawsuit is seeking class action status for everyone in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But those plans seem to be in flux after a telephonic status hearing for the case on Wednesday. Filed in 2019, the Moehrl lawsuit, like the other commission lawsuits, take’s aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list a property on the MLS.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

According to the company, brokers using Path TPO can prequalify loans in less than 10 minutes, order credit reports, upload documents, provide eSigning tools to borrowers, access automated underwriting systems, monitor loan statuses and deliver fully compliant loan packages.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Both lawsuits are seeking class-action status. Similar to the other commission lawsuits, the latest two take aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires the listing broker to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker to list the property on the MLS. 4, 2019 and the present.

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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. This change does allow for listing agents to no longer offer any monetary compensation to buyers’ brokers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, this lawsuit also takes issue with NAR’s Clear Cooperation rule, which requires listing brokers to make an offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to submit a listing to a Realtor-affiliated MLS.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Originally filed by REX in March 2021 , against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors , the lawsuit alleges that changes made to Zillow’s website “unfairly hides certain listings, shrinking their exposure and diminishing competition among real estate brokers.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

How getting a real estate license in Illinois is different from other states While most states call the professional who represents a buyer or a seller of commercial or residential real estate a “real estate agent,” Illinois calls this individual a “real estate broker.” 2] DID YOU KNOW?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The lawsuits contest alterations made to Keller Williams’ profit-sharing program, with one of them seeking a court order to halt further payouts until the case concludes. On March 22, Moulder, who worked with Keller Williams from 2002 to 2011, filed a complaint aiming for class-action status in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

At CRMLS, Carter said he and his team are already working to implement changes they will have to make to their MLS in order to comply with the new rules. “We The MLS provides the widest level of exposure, and it gives brokers and agents levels of information that they are not going to get if they do things separately from each other.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

That change is significant, as it allows Zillow to source homes from MLS databases, and means other real estate brokers are not able to specifically exclude Zillow from receiving their listings. But the company’s growth, especially as it gains country-wide brokerage status, is worrying some real estate agents. billion visits.

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Miller Samuel

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

consumer away from the real estate brokerage industry who had enjoyed 100 years of gatekeeper status. For the Zestimate to move from 7% to 2%, they are reliant on the broker expertise involved to price the property and get it on the market. In fact, it's been quite successful - after all, Zillow weened control of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

GG: There are so many choices in the market right now from depository to non-depository, broker to banker, in-person to digital. In order to stand out, customer experience needs to be at the center of everything we do. This allows LOs to create loans, receive real-time updates and check loan statuses without logging into Encompass.

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 24, 2022

Today, we are excited to announce Clear Capital’s Broker Price Opinions (BPOs) can easily be integrated and ordered without leaving your existing loan origination or order management system. . This newest integration offers advanced capabilities for order management. Our BPOs include drive-by and interior BPOs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Know your customer in order to deliver real value. Attend weekly broker huddles, shadow agents to see how they manage their day-to-day, and learn what their email inboxes actually look like. You don’t get do-overs when buying a house, which is why roughly 90% of purchases still involve an agent or broker. Navigate regulations.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This outcome would substantially impair the benefits of QM status to lenders and investors, introducing significant legal uncertainty into a regime meant to provide clear eligibility parameters. In September 2019 , several prominent members of the industry called for an elimination to the QM patch and reform for qualified mortgages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We know the current status of the housing market in America is vigorous, if not hot. In today’s low-inventory environment, complicated by external factors such as forbearance and foreclosure moratoriums, it’s crucial for real estate agents and brokers to be proactive in order to grow their business. Presented by: PropStream.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In order to qualify, Shauna had to surpass $16,000,000 million in sales volume. Recognized as a Top Producer in 2020 and 2021, Shauna also achieved the status of President’s Club ELITE in 2021! Broker/Owner. This is Shauna’s third year qualifying for the distinction. Congratulations Shauna! Anthony Lamacchia.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2022

Broker/Owner. The Worcester office is home to seven of our President’s Club members (listed in alphabetical order): Genevieve Botelho , AJ Bruce, Colleen Crowley, Deanna Faucher , Dawn Kelley , Elisha Lynch , and Jason Pincomb. It’s no longer a matter of IF we become #1 in the city of Worcester, but a matter of WHEN!”.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Being a team lead for The Balestracci Group , he had to achieve an even higher level of sales in order to qualify. Additionally, the team achieved Diamond Status through the REALTOR® Association of Central MA. . Broker/Owner. For over two decades, Mark has been named one of the top REALTORS® throughout Worcester County.

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