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The ‘World Wide Web’ is bigger than one listing website

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The real estate industry moved this past week, eXp Chief Brokerage Officer Holly Mabery writes. The MLS has a simple choice: lead, follow or be bypassed. Continue reading →

Flexibility serves clients better than rigid, one-size-fits-all mandates: ARA co-founder

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American Real Estate Association co-founder Jason Haber writes that the trade group articulated a vision for how listings should work, which is now becoming industry practice. Continue reading →

Bess Freedman: Days-on-market metrics are facts. Sorry, not sorry

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Our transparent real estate market, though not perfect, remains the envy of most of the world because of how efficient it is, Bess Freedman writes. Continue reading →

Gary Keller: The market is proving ‘exposure drives home value’

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Keller Williams Executive Chairman Gary Keller weighs in on private listings while announcing partnership with Zillow. Continue reading →

Washington state drew the line on private listings. Others should follow: Windermere exec

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Washington’s leadership should not be seen as an exception, Windermere’s OB Jacobi writes. It should be a blueprint. Continue reading →

Jason Oppenheim: How Compass is ‘weaponizing’ secrecy

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By striking a massive syndication deal with Redfin, Compass is attempting to build a parallel housing market where buyers are kept in the dark, competing brokerages are starved of inventory and the only true winner appears to be Compass’s bottom line. Continue reading →

‘Full transparency is the strongest mechanism for serving buyers and sellers’: Windermere’s OB Jacobi

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Consumers are best served by openness, the Windermere co-President writes, not by being made guinea pigs for strategies that may or may not benefit them. Continue reading →

Freedman: Free market scores an early victory over PLNs

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Brown Harris Stevens CEO Bess Freedman looks at Zillow’s early win in its fight with Compass and its implications for the future of PLNs. Continue reading →

Freedman: Free market scores an early victory over PLNs

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Brown Harris Stevens CEO Bess Freedman looks at Zillow’s early win in its fight with Compass and its implications for the future of PLNs. Continue reading →

When ‘off-market’ becomes the default, who really benefits?

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Maybe the MLS isn’t perfect, broker Dennis Norman writes, but it’s still the only tool we have that puts listings in front of everyone, not just the ones invited behind the curtain. Continue reading →