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 spokesperson told RISMedia…
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…
Back in 2022, half a dozen women came forward and filed a civil lawsuit against eXp Realty and its founder, Glenn Sanford, claiming that two “alpha agents” (Michael Bjorkman and David Golden) drugged and sexually assaulted them at company events. The women argued that Sanford and other eXp leadership ignored their complaints, as well as…
Just two months after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled its lawsuit with Zillow and Redfin over the two portals’ alleged anti-competitive agreement, two U.S. Senators have issued a new letter petitioning the organization to take aim at alleged anti-competitive practices on the home-buying side of portals. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker penned the…
Compass and multiple top executives are facing a class-action lawsuit from an Anywhere stockholder focused on the merger between the two companies, with the plaintiff claiming that back-channel efforts to get the deal approved created risk for the company and misled investors. Filed late last week in federal court in New York City, the lawsuit…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Better drops challenge against Vishal Garg The Better Home & Finance Holding Company (commonly known as Better) announced in an Oct. 5 press release that their Special Committee withdrew its challenge to the…
Zillow has encountered a roadblock in its effort to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging steering in regards to the portal’s Premier agent programs and its Home Loans business. The portal filed a motion to dismiss the suit back in June, claiming that the plaintiffs “fail” to plausibly argue their claims of state and federal…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Zillow moves to permanently dismiss mortgage steering lawsuit Zillow has filed a motion to dismiss the consumer lawsuit alleging the portal of steering customers to its mortgage business. The lawsuit—known as Armstrong, but…
Zillow is asking the court to once again shut down a consumer class-action lawsuit that alleges the portal steers toward its mortgage business. The Armstrong lawsuit—originally filed back in November 2025 and later consolidated with another similar lawsuit, Taylor v. Zillow—alleges that referrals to Zillow Home Loans are a “coercive scheme,” violating RESPA (the Real…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Chicago law firm gears up for Compass/MRED lawsuit A prolific class-action law firm, Hagens Berman, appears to be building a case against Compass and Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) as they seek plaintiffs…
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