Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) are asking federal housing officials to confirm their treatment of interested party contributions (IPCs) to home purchase transactions. Sellers or buyers can pay the buyer’s agent’s fees. NAR also sent a letter to the U.S.

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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. As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But this latest one comes with a twist — it was filed by homebuyers, unlike the others filed by home sellers. Unlike the Sitzer/Burnett , Moehrl and Gibson lawsuits , the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is missing from the list of defendants, however, the trade group’s presence is heavily felt in the plaintiffs’ complaint.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A home seller plaintiff in California filed an antitrust lawsuit on Friday in U.S. In a competitive market, the seller would pay nothing to the buyer broker, who would instead be paid by the buyer (their client), and the total commission paid by the seller would be set at a level to compensate only the seller’s broker,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down. That’s a problem because mortgage LOs traditionally have not “forged as deep of inroads” with sellers’ agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Under the terms of the settlement agreements reached by both Keller Williams and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), cooperative compensation is still allowed. Cooperative compensation is still legal,” Papasan stressed. Seller concessions is money that is being given by the seller directly to the buyer,” Papasan said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

The complaint names the National Association of Realtors , Las Vegas Realtors , Nevada Realtors , Sierra Nevada Realty , Incline Village Realtors , Elko County Realtors , Mesquite Real Estate Association and Northern Nevada Regional MLS as defendants. 15, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

An attorney for the plaintiffs, Robert Braun of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, asked Wood if she would be willing to set a trial date for the third quarter of 2024. Braun argued that legal issues still playing out in the Sitzer/Burnett suit was not a reason to delay the trial in the Moehrl case.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unlike other MLSs, MetroList is not exclusively owned or operated by Realtor associations affiliated with the National Association of Realtors. Instead MetroList is owned and operated by local Realtor associations and California Real Estate Brokers, Inc. The lawsuit is seeking class action status for all persons in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a document filed on Monday, the counsel for the home seller plaintiff Joseph Masiello notified the federal court in Arizona that it was voluntarily dismissing defendant Walt Danley Local Luxury , an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate , from the suit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The heightened consumer protection focus from government agencies, combined with the Department of Justice’s ongoing legal feud with the National Association of Realtors and its recent involvement in the Nosalek commission lawsuit , has many in the industry expecting that the DOJ will get involved in the Sitzer/Burnett suit, and potentially others.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to court documents filed on Tuesday, Anywhere Real Estate and the home sellers suing the firm in both the Moehrl and Sitzer/Burnett cases, which both deal with buyer brokers’ commissions, have reached a preliminary settlement agreement, settling all claims in both suits.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Many real estate executives and analysts believe that the Department of Justice , now with the green light to reopen its investigation into the National Association of Realtors , will shake up the civil commission lawsuit settlement agreement. But legal experts are not as certain.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

District Court in South Carolina, alleging that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Keller Williams colluded to artificially inflate agent commission rates, increasing costs for home sellers. The National Association of REALTORS® is reviewing this new filing and will respond to it in court.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Worst-case scenario, the broker representing the buyer will have to negotiate their own fee with their client and the seller can no longer be compelled to make a blanket offer of compensation in order to list on the MLS,” Murray said. Nearly six months later, Murray stands by this assertion. “If

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

While the suit pertains to homebuyers and not sellers, the issue of real estate agent compensation is central to the suit. This second lawsuit was filed in early November, just days after the verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit in Missouri. In her ruling Wood $5.36

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

While all types of brokerage models see different levels of success in the current real estate environment, industry experts believe this may change due to the terms of the recently negotiated settlement agreement by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the commission lawsuits. Fewer agents?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Ketchmark began his questioning, he tried to show that the structure of HomeServices as the parent company of so many affiliates and franchises had the effect of enforcing the National Association of Realtors’ commission and Clear Cooperation policies. It’s a negotiation with the seller.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Can we even discuss things about the house because if we inform the potential buyer of something about the house that makes them not want the house, even if it isn’t something necessarily bad, are we going against our agreement with our seller?” Although Pearson’s concerns are warranted, she is certainly ahead of the game.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Real estate giant Zillow came out victorious in its years-long legal battle with discount brokerage REX Real Estate. In a verdict announced late Friday afternoon, a jury in a U.S. District Court in Seattle determined that Zillow did not make deceptive change to its only agent listings that forced REX Real Estate to go out of business.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On Wednesday, home seller plaintiffs in northern Georgia filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The rules explicitly forbid negotiations over the buyer broker’s compensation by either the buyer or the paying seller,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A judgment as a matter of law is permissible if there is no legally sufficient basis for a reasonable jury to find for the nonmoving party (in this instance, the plaintiffs) on the issue. In addition, the contract stipulated that agents must join their local Realtor association.

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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. million, respectively.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Some of these provisions include no longer requiring agents to be members of the National Association of Realtors or following NAR’s Code of Ethics or the MLS Handbook. The terms of the settlement agreements require RE/MAX and Anywhere to pay $55 million and $83.5 million , respectively, as well as make policy and practice changes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just hours after securing a victory for his home seller clients in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit, Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, filed another class action antitrust lawsuit against some of the real estate industry’s biggest players, in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri. Who’s named?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” The buyers want the listing brokers to pay their buyer representative so they can have the most money invested in their down payment and get the best loan terms and rates possible,” Katie Johnson , NAR’s chief legal officer, said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the center of the plaintiffs’ complaint is the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation policy, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list the property on the MLS. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It found the National Association of Realtors , HomeServices of America and Keller Williams guilty of collusion to maintain high commission rates. It’s yet to be determined what this means for Realtors at this point,” Timothy Ray, the lead attorney for Keller Williams, told HousingWire in the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

After nearly 10 days of trial proceedings, Zillow is ready for its years-long legal battle with REX Real Estate to be over. A judgement as a matter of the law is permissible if there is no legally sufficient basis for a reasonable jury to find for the nonmoving party (in this instance, REX) on that issue.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Additionally, the plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial, damages, a permanent injunction barring the defendants from requiring sellers pay the buyer broker, and “restitution and restitutionary disgorgement of all monies wrongfully obtained from Plaintiff and the Class by Defendants.” 8, 2019, and the present.

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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. Sellers get access to the largest pool of buyers and the chance to sell their home for 35% more on average than for sale by owner.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — National Association of Realtors CEO Bob Goldberg was back on the stand Tuesday morning at the start of the seventh day of the Sitzer/Burnett class-action buyer broker commission antitrust lawsuit. This means sellers wind up paying inflated commissions at closing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A Kansas City jury has found the National Association of Realtors , HomeServices of America and Keller Williams guilty of colluding to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s Clear Cooperation Rule, in the Sitzer/Burnett buyer broker commission lawsuit. The defendants have been ordered to pay damages of $1.78

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On Friday, home seller plaintiff Dalton Jensen filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. The complaint argues that NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s brokers in order to list a property on a Realtor affiliated MLS, is the “cornerstone of [the] defendants’ conspiracy.” “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Defendants’ conspiracy has artificially inflated broker commissions to a range of 5-6% of the sale price in nearly all residential real estate transactions in REBNY Brooklyn—half of which automatically goes to the Buyer Broker—an overcharge that is borne entirely by the home seller,” the complaint states. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She said that HomeServices does not meddle in operations, give advice, or advise on commissions or how the brokerage approaches Realtor association membership. Frazier also told the jury that ReeceNichols does not require agents to be members of the National Association of Realtors , but the local MLS does. They were guidelines.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices of America , have asked judge Andrea Wood to rule on the suit based on the evidence that has been presented during the discovery period of the proceedings. After almost five years of litigation, it is clear that Keller Williams Realty, Inc.

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