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Lawsuits & Legal

Six Major MLS Organizations Sue Compass to Protect Equal Access to Home Listings

Originally reported by PR Newswire ·

The MLS Daily News summary

The official announcement from the six plaintiff MLSs — ARMLS, bridgeMLS, Canopy MLS, Doorify MLS, Hive MLS and REcolorado — and their law firm, Robinson Bradshaw. The release frames the suit as a defense of rules requiring publicly marketed properties to be shared with all MLS participants, and says it was filed after Compass threatened to sue unless the MLSs stopped penalizing agents who skip MLS submission.

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Lawsuits & Legal

How Compass' fight with MLSs became a coordinated legal battle

An Inman report traces how Compass's demand letters to individual MLSs developed into multiple court cases. According to the report, at least nine MLSs, with roughly 272,000 combined subscribers and users, have rejected the brokerage's demands or gone to court; the central question is whether a brokerage can publicly market homes while keeping them out of the MLS.

Source: Inman ↗