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Keller Williams names Jason Abrams chief industry and strategy officer

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Jason Abrams moves to new Keller Williams role as chief industry and strategy officer. Keller Williams Realty has named Abrams, a longtime executive and educator, as chief industry and strategy officer, charged with the company’s global learning platform and enterprise-wide initiatives, the company announced Tuesday. In the new role, Abrams will lead Keller Williams’ global […]

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CMLS warns pre marketing could fragment the housing market

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The Council of MLS (CMLS), the trade organization for multiple listing services, is pushing back against the rhetoric currently circulating the housing industry that “sellers benefit when their listings are not broadly exposed, that listing brokerages have a fiduciary duty to withhold facts from other brokers and their buyers, and that MLSs work against real

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The ground just shifted: coming soon listings are taking over real estate

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At a time when real estate industry leaders seem to be more conflicted than ever, one idea has emerged that everyone from Homes.com to Zillow, to eXp Realty and Compass can agree on: pre-marketing coming soon listings. What does that mean for the MLSs and will it invite more federal scrutiny? The resurgence of coming soon

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Keller Williams settles Batton homebuyer commission lawsuit

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Nearly two years to the day since Keller Williams settled the home seller commission lawsuits, the firm has announced a settlement with the Batton homebuyer commission lawsuit plaintiffs. The company announced its settlement agreement on Monday. As part of the nationwide settlement agreement, Keller Williams will pay $20 million. The firm did not disclose any

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Keller Williams sharpens focus on agent teams for 2026

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For many of the real estate industry’s newest entrants, team recruitment and retention was a primary focus in 2025. And while Keller Williams recognizes that other companies are jumping on the mega and expansion team bandwagon, the firm is confident that it has what it takes to compete in this arena in 2026 and beyond.

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PLACE names new leaders for growth, legal, and title strategy

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Real estate platform PLACE is welcoming three new executives. On Monday, the firm announced the additions of Nikki Miller, Jamie Jatzlau and Claire Dunham to its leadership team. Miller, who will serve as PLACE’s new vice president of growth, began her real estate industry career in 2014 as a sales associate at the Souferian Group,

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Elsafy Team’s journey to $80M in sales and a new home at Keller Williams

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Essam Elsafy, founder of The Elsafy Team, has quietly become one of Wisconsin’s most successful real estate leaders, guiding his team to top statewide rankings. The Whitefish Bay–based group, now nine members strong, ranked No. 3 among Wisconsin medium-sized teams by sales volume in 2024, according to RealTrends Verified. So far this year, the team

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Realtor Veronica Figueroa dismissed from recruiting lawsuit

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Veronica Figueroa, the leader and founder of the eXp Realty-brokered The Fig Team, has been dismissed from the recruiting lawsuit involving Keller Williams agents in Waterford Lakes, Oviedo and Lake Nona, Florida. The claims against Figueroa were voluntarily dismissed from the suit earlier this month by the three Keller Williams franchisee plaintiffs, which include Keller

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Estimated damages in Batton commission lawsuit come in at over $10 billion

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Almost five years have passed since the original Batton homebuyer commission lawsuit was filed, and the plaintiffs are finally asking for certification of their proposed class. Filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois, the lawsuit alleges that the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere, Keller Williams and RE/MAX all took part in a “decades-long, nationwide

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