NWMLS switches IDX list feed to Compass
The news was first reported by Inman News and confirmed to Housing Because of sources that wanted to stay anonymous.
The NWMLS IDX-Feed to Compass.com was eliminated on Tuesday at 8.30 am, which means that a non-compass-independent good cannot be found on Compass.com after that time.
NWMLS refused to comment on the situation.
“Despite following the published rules of NWMLS, the IDX feed of Compass was suspended without warning -both our customers and agents influence,” Cris Nelson, a regional vice president for Compass, told Inman. “NWMLS is an MLS of real estate agents and is the only MLS in the country that forbids agents to make a real estate on the internet or publicly tender-to-be stated in the MLS.”
This step of NWMLS is only the last battle in the constant war between the MLS and Compass. The TIFF started at the end of March when Compass CEO Robert Reffkin NWMLS and his CEO Justin Haag called for the Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) of the company in a post on social media. NWMLS is private ownership and therefore not subject to the MLS rules that have been announced by the National Association of Realtors (Dar).
In contrast to NWMLS’s CCP, NWMLS does not allow agents to withhold the MLS entries as exclusively office exclusive on the market. Nar’s policy enables quotation agents to market an exclusive list of an office in private to other agents within its company or to agents and brokers at other companies, provided that the mention is shared one-on-one.
Compass also has a support of a websiteCalled Washington HomeWOWER RIGHTS, who asks NWMLS -Woning vendors for a potential Class Action right store. The site is looking for homesellers who have been “damaged” through the policy of NWMLS and who have experienced a price fall or considerable days on the market.
Last WednesdayReffkin shared a quote from the law firm Crowell & Moring LLPwho mentions the Antitrust Act on its specialties, on his social media accounts.
“The Washington’s state law requires that the agent of a seller is loyal to the seller by not taking action that is detrimental or harmful to the interests of the seller in a transaction.” By not allowing agents to market the MLS when their client wants, Northwest MLS is in fact questions agents to break the law.
