Driving around my neighborhood, I’ve been seeing a lot more Help-U-Sell signs. These types of services have been growing dramatically with the hot real estate market. Sellers usually give up 6% of their home’s sale for commissions (usually 3% to each the buying and selling agent, sometimes they are in both roles). Services like these have existed for a while but not until the Internet have they had a great impact since they are more readily accessible to both buyers and sellers.

Then there are the consumer-buying sites that provide MLS listings, where all realtors/services list their homes they have for sale. Here are examples of MLS services to consumers. MLS listing services seem to be regional and some have consumer-facing sites and some don’t.

Well, the National Association of Realtors has been taking actions that seem to be anticompetitive. They wanted to restrict the use of these MLS listings outside of those they have agreements with.

So, the DOJ has taken their own actions due to anticompetitive practices.

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