Greg Robertson

“Hi Friends, With a heavy heart, I share the passing of Mark Allen, someone deeply loved by me and by the real estate industry. For nearly four decades, Mark shaped how our industry works, shares information, embraces technology, and connects people. He spent 16 years as CEO of the Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS®, establishing programs that became models nationwide. He founded 10K Research Marketing, pioneering market analytics for brokers, associations, and MLSs before its acquisition by ShowingTime.

From HousingWire I've been delaying writing about this, too much reading. As you know, two weeks ago CRMLS beat Compass to the courthouse and filed in Manhattan.

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Jenn and I went the movies and saw “ You Can See Everything “. I wanted to know what a senior film student at NYU thought about the documentary. So I FaceTimed my son Cole last night. He loved it. Me too, you should go see it.

“This lawsuit arises from a campaign by Compass- the largest real estate brokerage in the United States to pressure multiple listing services (“MISs”) into changing cooperation rules in a way that would favor Compass but would make the market for residential real estate less transparent and less competitive, ultimately hurting”

If you've run a brokerage in the last twenty years, you've used BrokerMetrics or sat across from someone who did.

So, I helped break this news yesterday that ARMLS BridgeMLS Canopy REcolorado Hive and Doorify filed in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, same court as CRMLS , same ask: declare the cooperation rules legal and tell Compass to stop threatening to sue us. Rob already did the legal read , and even he admits it's a well-drafted complaint.

CRMLS's Art Carter and Ed Zorn sat down with Compass's antitrust complaint against them and read it slowly. They stopped at paragraph 3:

30% of brokers lost an agent unexpectedly last year. The brokers who didn't? They have systems in place. Here's how to get there, in 15 minutes.

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