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| Court Report: Compass and CRMLS at Bat; eXp Settles Sexual Assault Case | ||
| 10/20/2026 1:31 PM | ||
| Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Compass sues CRMLS over “mandatory submission” policies Shortly after the MLS filed its own suit against the brokerage, Compass has now filed a lawsuit against California-based CRMLS, asking ...Read More | ||
| Housing Starts Decline as Builders Forecast Lower Production Into Next Year | ||
| 10/20/2026 12:39 PM | ||
| As homebuilder confidence has now bottomed out to a 12-year low, the housing construction industry continues to face a series of hurdles that are severely diminishing activity. With the latest New Residential Construction report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau demonstrating another impacted month,...Read More | ||
| Pending Sales Drop Dramatically as Economists Blame High Rates and Season Slowdown | ||
| 10/20/2026 12:35 PM | ||
| As the housing market begins to wind down for the cold season, pending home sales are also showing the impact of elevated mortgage rates as contract signings fell across the board, according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). The Pending Home Sales report by NAR for September shows that sales decreased by 7.3% month-over-month,...Read More | ||
| Side Joins HouseCanary’s Google Listings Program | ||
| 10/20/2026 12:32 PM | ||
| Housing data company HouseCanary announced on Oct. 20 that Side has joined its Google Listings Program. Under the agreement, the active listings for the over 600 partners in 19 states in Side’s broker network are available for display in Google mobile search in live markets. When consumers search for homes on Google mobile in a… ...Read More | ||
| Third MLS Rejects Compass, Claims MLSs Have Law on Their Side | ||
| 10/20/2026 9:02 AM | ||
| A third MLS today publicly rejected threats from Compass over listing rules, as New York-based OneKey MLS joined CRMLS in California and Unlock MLS in Texas in refusing to change policies despite significant back-channel pressure and legal threats from the mega-brokerage. In a release early this morning, OneKey CEO Richard Haggerty said the MLS ...Read More | ||
| Builder Incentives Are Changing the New Construction vs. Resale Conversation | ||
| 10/19/2026 2:52 PM | ||
| Many homebuyers assume a brand-new home will automatically cost more than a resale home. In today’s market, that isn’t always true. Builders can offer incentives that traditional homesellers usually can’t, including lower mortgage rates and help with closing costs. Those incentives can sometimes make a more expensive new construction home cost l...Read More | ||
| elevateMLS Launches Home Search Website Built on MLS Data | ||
| 10/19/2026 1:50 PM | ||
| Colorado Springs-based elevateMLS has announced the launch of a new consumer website where homebuyers and sellers can search listings straight from the MLS, find a local agent and see how the market is moving. The site is live at elevateMLS.com. According to a release, home search on the site runs on the Cribio platform from… The po...Read More | ||
| NAHB Reports Lowest Builder Confidence in 14 Years | ||
| 10/19/2026 1:30 PM | ||
| The monthly National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for builder confidence fell three points to 29 (out of 100) in October, marking the lowest builder confidence in the market since June 2012. NAHB attributed the historically low measure of builder sentiment to rising mortgage rates, energy and materia...Read More | ||
| 3 Biggest Takeaways From Compass’s Lawsuit Against CRMLS | ||
| 10/19/2026 1:24 PM | ||
| In an entirely expected move last Friday, Oct. 16, Compass filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against California-based CRMLS, asking a judge to prevent the MLS from enforcing its “mandatory submission” policies that the brokerage argues violates antitrust policies. As it has continued to campaign for changes to certain MLS policies, a Compass spo...Read More | ||
| BREAKING: eXp Reaches Settlement in Sexual Assault Case | ||
| 10/19/2026 9:02 AM | ||
| Just one day before the case was to go to trial, eXp managed to evade court as a partial settlement was reached. In the settlement filed Oct. 18, eXp agent Anya Roberts officially reached a confidential settlement which resolves all claims against eXp Realty, Founder Glenn Sanford and parent company AGNT, Inc. The settlement only… T...Read More | ||