Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

The semi-annual “Realtors Legislative Meeting” of the powerful National Association of Realtors wrapped up earlier this month with the election of new leadership, and the NAR telling regional Multiple Listings Service’s what to do on listing addresses ( post them all !). Exclusive access to the HW+ Slack community and virtual events.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Originally filed in late November, the Phillips lawsuit accuses real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. This system, with its veiled surcharges, illegally warps the real estate market.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

First Team Real Estate , the largest independent brokerage in California , left Christie’s International Real Estate , the company first told Inman on Wednesday. Christie’s International Real Estate told Inman that the parting was “mutual.” First Team was with Christie’s for about 10 years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’re interested in becoming a real estate agent in Illinois, you’ll be happy to hear that the path to getting your real estate license in the Prairie State doesn’t require as much of a time commitment as other states. 1] As a real estate broker in Illinois, it is not legal for you to work independently.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Co-founded by Sean Soderstrom, Dan Breitbach and Joe Urciuoli, the proptech company sells an AI-powered software platform to help real estate brokerages with their recruiting efforts. Courted identified three main problems with how brokerages have historically recruited agents. over the past year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

As for the defendants, real estate brokerages River Point Realty , Bovard-Anderson , Priority Realty , Rubinoff Realty Services and Found It PA were added in the amended complaint. The addition of the five local brokerages is not the only recent change to the list of defendants.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Amy Kong of Trust Real Estate hosts open houses where people ask, “Where is the agent?”. These are instances of racism experienced by Hispanic, Black and Asian real estate agents. But they point to something more specific – homebuyers and sellers surprised to interact with a non-white real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The series of lawsuits that have been shaking the real estate industry for the past several months have all revolved around the same issue: Realtor commissions. In the Sitzer-Burnett case, plaintiffs successfully argued that real estate commission rates were too high.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

The DOJ repeatedly said in withdrawing from its consent decree with the Realtor’s trade group that it is looking at commissions. Many scholars and antitrust lawyers, but not many agents, say U.S. real estate commissions are artificially inflated by an illegal horizontal conspiracy between NAR and brokerages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion dollar damages claim assessed against the National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices , I wondered what impact this could have economically on the industry. I decided to break down the numbers and look at brokerage economics. goes to the agents and teams. While reading about the $1.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The suit, known as Fierro, after its lead plaintiff Gael Fierro, a Californian home seller, accuses the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. It was filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. 17, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A second home seller in Nevada has filed a lawsuit alleging that real estate industry players in the state have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The copycat commission lawsuit was filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas by Nevada home seller Angela Boykin.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

R New York , a brokerage boasting approximately 800 agents, has joined the American Real Estate Association , an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), according to The Real Deal. “I’m hoping it can be the dominant organization nationwide.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

BeachesMLS ’ and MIAMI REALTORS SEFMLS , South Florida ’s two largest Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), have begun providing complete listing data to Nestfully , a public search portal sourced directly from the MLS, the company announced last Wednesday. Together, BeachesMLS and MIAMI SEFMLS serve more than 103,000 real estate professionals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

As lenders adapt to a purchase-centered market , HousingWire spoke to Brian Boero, CEO of 1000watt , about opportunities to grow lenders’ effectiveness in the Realtor and broker market. HousingWire: What’s happening right now in the Realtor world that lenders should know more about? This has created an environment of scarcity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Alliance would rank as the nation’s 23 rd and 29 th brokerage in volume and transaction sides, respectively, on the 2023 RealTrends Top 500 list. REALTORS® Lynchburg, VA 74 8 Jessica Boswell eXp Realty Burlington, CT 70.5 REALTORS® Lynchburg, VA 74 8 Jessica Boswell eXp Realty Burlington, CT 70.5 transaction sides in 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

San Francisco-based real estate team OWN Real Estate joined Keller Williams , the company announced on Wednesday. Founded by Wilson Leung, the team has 19 real estate agents and six staff members. In 2022, OWN Real Estate sold 80 homes, amounting to more than $107.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

District Court in Arizona, Joseph Masiello, an Arizona resident and home seller, accuses several real estate companies of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In a copycat suit filed last Friday in U.S. Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Drive with NAR Real Estate Rockstars Podcast The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience Real Trending by HousingWire Elite Agent Secrets The Listings Lab Podcast with Jess Lenouvel Real Estate Training and Coaching School 5AM Call Keeping it Real The full picture 1.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

After months of plaintiffs’ lawyers in commission lawsuits claiming that the National Association of Realtors sets real estate agent commissions, the trade group finally decided to, in its words, “set the record straight.” The influential trade group lost a $5.3

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

In the 24 hours after news broke of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement agreement in the commission lawsuits , Doug Danzey, the leader of the eXp Realty -brokered teamerage The Cobalt Group , said the most pervasive emotion among his agents has been panic. “I It is really going to go backwards.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

the National Association of Realtors (NAR), et al kicked off this week in a Kansas City, Missouri, federal courtroom, there is a lot at stake for consumers and business competition. Class action attorneys allege real estate commission rates are too high and buyer brokers are being paid too much due to NAR rules.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

“I was sitting on my couch and I saw Michael on CNBC calling us a cartel, saying that we take money that doesn’t belong to us, and I was infuriated at that rhetoric and I was infuriated at what that infers about Realtors,” Lamacchia said. “It It dehumanizes Realtors and turns us into money-making machines.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ryan Levenson, who is the 2023 president of the East Tennessee Realtors’ Association , is a third-generation real estate agent, following his parents, Rich and Patti Levenson, into the business. 99 agent in Tennessee by sales volume in the RealTrends America’s Best rankings, closing 54.5 million in sales volume.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The plaintiffs who signed the contract, however, sued a non-signatory parent company of the signatory brokerages, which “asserted liability based on the non-signatory’s relationship with its subsidiary.” Since it was not, HomeServices is unable to compel arbitration, the brokerage argued.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. RealTrends Brokerage Compensation Report. However, these super-sized teams aren’t the only ones turning a profit — a profit that dwarfs most real estate brokerage’s profit.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

District Court in New York against the Real Estate Board of New York and several brokerages, according to court filings. According to Friedman’s initial complaint, this artificially inflated real estate agent commissions. The filings did not provide any insight into why the suit was dismissed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A copycat commission lawsuit filed on Thursday by home sellers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses 47 real estate industry defendants of allegedly conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The plaintiffs kept moving the finish line and I was sad as president of the National Association of Realtors not to be able to protect everybody, but at the end of the day we realized we need to be able to protect the most people that we can, and in this proposed settlement, that was what we were able to do,” Sears said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In an email, Marla Martin, a spokesperson for Florida Realtors, said the trade group was working on a statement about the allegations.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting referrals and cozying up to the sell side Mike Kortas, CEO at NEXA Mortgage , sent a clear message to the over 2,300 mortgage LOs at his mortgage brokerage: “Keep your eyes open, keep your ears open, listen for opportunities that are going to present themselves, and be ready to assist more buyers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

The top agents were previously at brokerage @properties. “We With her 20 years of experience, Hodge is one of the top-producing agents in the western suburbs of Chicago. “I’m She ranked among the top 1% of Chicago Realtors in 2017 and is also a past president of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Filed last Wednesday in the Western District of Missouri, the Umpa suit, named after its lead and only plaintiff Daniel Umpa, accuses the real estate industry of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The National Association of Realtors will respond to this complaint in court.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

the copycat suit alleges that real estate industry players have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Brokerages RE/MAX , Anywhere , Keller Williams , eXp World Holdings , NorCal Gold , Williams L. Lyon & Associates , Guide Real Estate , Paul M.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

District Court in Utah, accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. On Friday, home seller plaintiff Dalton Jensen filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. 9, 2020, and the present, and paid a buyer broker commission.

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