{"id":983,"date":"2019-03-14T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/class-action-lawsuit-home-sellers-claim-antitrust-laws-violated\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:12:54","slug":"class-action-lawsuit-home-sellers-claim-antitrust-laws-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/class-action-lawsuit-home-sellers-claim-antitrust-laws-violated\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action Lawsuit: Home Sellers Claim Antitrust Laws Violated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NAR, Realogy, RE\/MAX, Keller Williams and HomeServices of America hit with class-action&nbsp;lawsuit<\/h1>\n<p>A new lawsuit claims the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Association of REALTORS<\/a> (NAR) and four major real estate franchisors violated federal antitrust laws by conspiring to require home sellers to pay the broker representing the buyer of their homes and to pay an inflated amount.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs have filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois claiming that defendants NAR, Realogy, RE\/MAX, Keller Williams and HomeServices of America have conspired together around NAR\u2019s adoption and implementation of a rule that requires all brokers to make a blanket, non-negotiable offer of buyer-broker compensation when listing a property on an MLS.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate consultant and blogger <a href=\"meet-the-influencers-rob-hahn\/\">Rob Hahn <\/a>wrote a two-part analysis (<a href=\"https:\/\/notorious-rob.com\/2019\/03\/gotterdammerung-a-very-serious-legal-threat\/\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/notorious-rob.com\/2019\/03\/do-not-minimize-ragnarok-very-serious-legal-threat-part-2\/?mc_cid=ae4bc14e13&amp;mc_eid=fd4cf6d733\">Part 2<\/a>)&nbsp; of the case in which he says, &#8220;The basic claim is that the MLS rule of unilateral offer of compensation is a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. 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