A year after the real estate commission changes, industry has dodged doomsday

“A lot of these brokers just don’t want to have to rethink what they are doing or change their compensation models and that is why they are stuck in this traditional way of doing things and it is going to hurt them because we know the plaintiffs attorneys have begun their audits of the MLSs and I think the larger firms will be on deck next.” 

While Haase agrees that there may have been some initial hesitancy and pushback against the practice changes, he feels that once the changes went into effect, most brokers and agents realized that there really was no room for them to do anything in opposition. 

Forms proved to be the tricky part

Cantrell said that some forms promulgated…