The legal tit-for-tat over MLS rules blocking coming-soon listings has been ongoing for a year
Opinion
If listings are the foundation of the market, why are decisions being made without agent input?
Compass' phased rollout of listings is at the center of the dispute
NWMLS says there are significant parallels between issues raised in its own lawsuit with Compass and one involving Zillow
Opinion
This is about more than a competitive edge. It's about market openness and transparency
As it geared up to fight for rules that were favorable to its private listings strategy, Compass set out to understand where hundreds of MLSs stood — and to create a 1-to-5 ranking system
The 32K-member Northwest Multiple Listing Service wrote in a new legal filing Compass 'cannot have it both ways' by receiving listings via the MLS while holding half of its own listings privately
Opinion
MLSs are just too important to the health of the industry, and to the homebuying and selling process, to keep them under NAR’s control, Windermere co-President OB Jacobi writes
Judge Jamal N. Whitehead agreed to have the case heard by a jury in June 2026 at Compass's request and over NWMLS's objection that choosing a date was 'premature'
A new website soliciting plaintiffs for a possible class-action suit against the Washington MLS asks homeowners if they've sold in the state and seen 'a price drop or significant days on market'
Opinion
Northwest MLS President and CEO Justin Haag writes that there is no place for exclusionary practices in today's real estate marketplace
The Washington-based multiple listing service said private listings entrench brokerages as 'gatekeepers.' The comments come after Robert Reffkin called out NWMLS on Instagram
Compass CEO Robert Reffkin also criticized Northwest MLS, describing its rules as uniquely restrictive. But Windermere fired back at what it criticized as 'hoarding inventory'
In a new report, University of Buffalo contracts law professor Tanya Monestier details ways in which contracts allow buyer agents to collect more compensation than agreed-to with the buyer
Washington was the first U.S. state that saw a confirmed case of the coronavirus. A month and a half later the real estate industry soldiers on amid the chaos