California Regional Multiple Listing Service has sued Compass in federal court, asking a judge to declare its listing-cooperation rules lawful before a deadline Compass set for Tuesday to stop enforcing them or face an antitrust lawsuit. The complaint, filed Oct. 5 in...
An ARELLO analysis found private home sales consistently underperformed standard MLS listings, while coming-soon listings generally commanded higher prices. The regulator group cautioned that the findings show association—not causation. A new analysis of more than 10...
A new Connecticut law is drawing fresh attention to the national fight over private real estate listings, but the statute stops short of banning sellers from keeping a home off the public market. Public Act 26-23, which took effect Oct. 1, establishes a public-access...
Compass is asking multiple listing services to stop distributing its listing and agent information to third-party technology vendors when the data is used to help competing brokerages recruit agents, opening another front in the industry’s debate over who...
Compass has redesigned its consumer website around a blunt promise to home shoppers: “See It First.”The brokerage’s homepage now leads with the message that consumers can “find more homes before they’re listed on other real estate sites,” placing early-access...