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NAR in 2025: staff shakeups, risk reduction and policy moves

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In 2025, NAR focused on policies, listening and responding to members’ concerns. Here’s how the organization and its leaders navigated an industry in turmoil. Continue reading →

NAR defeats discount brokerage Homie in antitrust lawsuit

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The court determined that Homie’s claims were no longer timely, that it failed to make a case for antitrust injury and that it did not provide enough evidence to prove wrongful interference in its business dealings. Continue reading →

Once on a path for expansion, Homie now a shell of its former self

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Utah-based discount brokerage once said it was the largest in the state and was on a path for 1,000 agents. A few years later, the company was sold and is rebuilding under new ownership. Starting with its 22 agents in 2 states. Continue reading →

Homie drops Keller Williams from its ongoing antitrust lawsuit

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Franchiser is the second real estate defendant to be dismissed from the flat-fee brokerage’s lawsuit that claimed an anticompetitive scheme to defeat discount brokerages. Continue reading →

Stay tuned: The tumult of 2024 leaves real estate on a cliffhanger

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What will happen with the commission litigation? Which companies may merge? How will consumers behave? The only thing that’s certain is that real estate’s next episode will be big. Continue reading →

Homie: NAR created a ‘weapon’ that it used to block competition

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In the latest filing in its quest for damages, Utah-based discount brokerage Homie asserted NAR, KW, RE/MAX and others created and enforced rules that amounted to an illegal conspiracy. Continue reading →

NAR asks court to dismiss lawsuit filed by discount brokerage Homie

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Lawyers for NAR, HomeServices of America, RE/MAX, Anywhere and HSF Affiliates denied claims of a conspiracy to inflate commissions, arguing that Homie would have benefitted from the plot. Continue reading →

Homie drops UtahRealEstate.com from conspiracy lawsuit

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The flat-fee brokerage dismissed its antitrust case against the MLS but kept as defendants Keller Williams, the National Association of Realtors, Anywhere, HomeServices of America and RE/MAX. Continue reading →

Clear Cooperation takes center stage, faces pressure to change

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Officials from the National Association of Realtors are meeting this week to discuss the so-called pocket listing ban — one of the industry’s most polarizing rules. Continue reading →

Homie sues NAR and others, alleging boycott and conspiracy

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The suit accuses NAR and major franchisors of breaking antitrust laws. The company’s complaint includes alleged text messages in which agents refused to show Homie listings. Continue reading →