National Association of Realtors (NAR)

Price Fixing and Association Membership

by ft Editorial Staff | Nov 21, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

Watch the first episode in our new video series depicting the seismic shift in the representation of buyers in 2025, cementing long-standing public policy.

Buyer Representation Agreements: The end of the “gold standard”

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 25, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Forms, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, New Laws, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

With new California legislation, it’s now mandatory practice for a buyer broker to enter into an employment agreement with buyer-clients before a purchase agreement is submitted.

RPI real estate forms have always been in compliance with NAR’s most recent antitrust settlement

by Amy Platero | Apr 9, 2024 | Feature Articles, Forms, Fundamentals, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Unlike trade unions, RPI forms for decades has had methods for the buyers broker to set their own fees and disclose the fee amount to their buyer clients.

NAR’s long-established compensation model finally evolves

by ft Editorial Staff | Mar 26, 2024 | Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 2

After years of lawsuits, NAR® has finally agreed to a settlement relegating cooperative compensation to the history books.

Changes to agent fees following the NAR® lawsuit

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 15, 2023 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

What changes are ahead following the landmark lawsuit against NAR?

MLS Access for Non-CAR Members

by ft Editorial Staff | Nov 2, 2023 | Feature Articles, Features, Real Estate, Video | 11

How to save on membership dues and access the multiple listing service (MLS) as an independent broker or agent

NAR® to pay out $1.8 billion in broker conspiracy lawsuit

by Carrie B. Reyes | Nov 2, 2023 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Recent Case Decisions, Your Practice | 1

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR®) is in hot-money water again, this time for a full-blown conspiracy to inflate broker fees.

NAR® members jump ship following sexual harassment allegations and more anti-trust lawsuits

by Carrie B. Reyes | Oct 16, 2023 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Licensees and the public more broadly have recently grown uncomfortably aware that those in charge don’t always follow their own rules.

Disclosure of buy-side fees: a compliance blindspot for some real estate brokers

by Guest Author Summer Goralik | Jan 17, 2022 | Feature Articles, Finance, Fundamentals, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Real Estate Compliance Consultant and former California Department of Real Estate (DRE) Investigator Summer Goralik highlights the importance of buyer-side fee disclosures.

DOJ to examine NAR’s rules and conduct

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jul 19, 2021 | Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

This is not the first time NAR has been in hot water with the DOJ.

NAR pushes for a quick end to the eviction moratorium

by Carrie B. Reyes | May 3, 2021 | Property Management, Real Estate | 0

The National Association of Realtors® recently filed an official complaint against the CDC in an attempt to lift the federal eviction moratorium.

They made how much? Antitrust lawsuit to make real estate fees public

by Carrie B. Reyes | Apr 26, 2021 | Real Estate, Your Practice | 1

The fee amounts earned as a part of real estate transactions will soon become public knowledge.

It’s time for CAR to stop hiding ethics violators behind a paywall

by Benjamin J. Smith | Apr 4, 2021 | Real Estate | 0

The Department of Real Estate publicizes a list of real estate law violators each month — why doesn’t the California Association of Realtors® do the same for their ethics violators?