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Plaintiff Jorge Zea runs www.snapflatfee.com, a brokerage that charges sellers a listing fee in exchange for limited services. Zea’s firm syndicates listings data to the MLS data feeds and forwards all buyer... Read more »
NWMLS filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit in early July 2025, claiming that it has “no duty to deal” with Compass. In his ruling earlier this week, Judge Whitehead wrote that... Read more »
Senate Democrats are rolling out a proposal to curtail tax breaks to deter major real estate investors from buying up homes in the market, as President Donald Trump seeks congressional support for... Read more »
A legal filing submitted last week requests a number of communications between Zillow and Redfin employees related to the firms’ rental syndication agreement. It looks like portals Zillow and Redfin will have... Read more »
A Friday-morning news report suggesting that the Trump administration is exploring an antitrust probe into U.S. homebuilders landed with its intended shock value. The implication? Washington, having rattled its saber, may be... Read more »
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Bloomberg, antitrust enforcers at the Department of Justice (DOJ) wanted to investigate Compass’s recently closed acquisition of Anywhere, but they were blocked by senior... Read more »
“The Court accepts as true all of the well-pleaded facts in the Complaint and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiffs.” So said U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama on 12.4.2025. According... Read more »
In response, NWMLS has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, claimed that it has “no duty to deal” with Compass, and it most recently indicated that it “intends to assert counterclaims,”... Read more »
“This case presents another opportunity for a court to assess purportedly anticompetitive agreements infecting the real-estate industry,” the filing states. For the first 11 months of this second Trump administration it appeared... Read more »