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Compass Wants to Market Homes Outside the MLS. Two MLSs Are Fighting Back.

Compass Wants to Market Homes Outside the MLS. Two MLSs Are Fighting Back.

Compass wants more freedom to market homes outside the MLS. Two listing organizations are refusing to surrender their enforcement rules, turning a brokerage strategy dispute into a legal fight. California Regional MLS filed suit October 5 in federal court in New York, seeking a declaration that its cooperation rules comply with antitrust law. Central Texas’s Unlock MLS separately rejected Compass’s demand to stop penalizing certain listing practices.  The dispute is real. But the October 13 Inman article highlighting the pushback…

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