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The Settlement here does not overlap with any of the existing home seller settlements. Rather, this Settlement resolves the legal claims of homebuyers who were not included in the home seller settlement
Today, a listing is no longer simply a property record. It is the industry’s most valuable business asset. Whoever controls the listing controls consumer relationships, lead generation, advertising opportunities, artificial intelligence training data, and billions of dollars in downstream services
That explains why brokerages want greater control before MLS entry, why portals insist on broad consumer access, and why MLSs find themselves caught in the middle.
Together they crystallize the central question facing the industry: should a residential listing belong first to the open MLS marketplace, or first to the brokerage that signed the seller? The answer will reshape how listings flow, where consumers find homes, which businesses capture the revenue, and what the Multiple Listing Service exists to do
There’s a lot of meat in her simple one-sentence writing style. You’ll find lots of spot-on insight as you quickly scroll through. We’ll give you a peek at a few of her descriptions of Coming Soon
What used to be a cooperative system is fragmenting into competing strategies—portals seeking consumer attention, brokers defending inventory, and agents working to secure direct, contractual relationships with buyers.
More importantly, brokerages should review their training programs to caution agents regarding what can be said and what should be avoided in advising buyers as to steps in the loan process – in short, what are the RED FLAGS.
if you are not retaining emails and texts in a centralized, supervised system, let’s make 2026 the year that gets corrected. Pronto.
we thought you might like the following update of major real estate lawsuits and trends impacting the residential real estate landscape. Here’s a list of relevant titles to review.
You may have recently read that Bright MLS, one of the largest MLSs in the US, is moving to “Zero Commission” as an option for
One habit will keep you oriented across all of these. For any feed, ask two questions. What may the recipient do with what arrives, that is the license. And is the output a listing being shown, or something new being made?
Real Estate Word of the Day – Learning real estate one word at a time… Amicus curiae “Amicus curiae” is a Latin term that translates
