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The National Association of Realtors settles with The Department of Justice regarding anti competitive practices

REAL ESTATE TRENDS

The National Association of Realtors settles with The Department of Justice regarding anti competitive practices

Recap courtesy of the National Association of Realtors website. we highlighted the second paragraph which is especially important to FSBO sellers.  Bottom line - agents cannot boycott showing your listing if it meets their clients criteria.  No matter what you are offering to compensate them

 

In accordance with the MLS system's long-standing focus on creating an efficient, transparent marketplace for home buyers and sellers, the amount of compensation offered to buyers' agents for each MLS listing will be made publicly available. Publicly accessible MLS data feeds will include offers of compensation, and buyers' agents will have an affirmative obligation to provide such information to their clients for homes of interest.

Relatedly, the rule changes re-affirm that MLS's and brokerages, as always, must provide consumers all properties that fit their criteria regardless of compensation offered or the name of the listing brokerage.

While NAR has long encouraged buyers' agents to explain how they expect to be paid, typically through offers of cooperative compensation from sellers' agents, there will be a rule that more definitively states that buyers' agents cannot represent that their services are free to clients.

Finally, with the seller's prior approval, a licensed real estate agent will have access to the lockboxes of properties listed on an MLS even if the agent does not subscribe to the MLS.

 

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