Compass attacks NWMLS claims as ‘misleading and self-serving’

According to Compass, if NWMLS “truly cared” about companies “free-riding,” it would remove Zillow as a member of the MLS. 

“After all, Zillow — a NWMLS member — takes all NWMLS listings without contributing a single listing back to NWMLS. In fact, by that same logic, NWMLS itself could be considered the ultimate free-rider: brokerages provide the inventory that gives NWMLS its very purpose, yet NWMLS takes that inventory for free, forces brokers to participate under threat of exclusion, monetizes those listings by selling the data to third parties, and then charges brokers dues to access the very listings they provide,” the statement reads. 

Compass claims that it “shares more listings with MLSs than any other brokerage across almost every major market.”…