231 – NAR Lawsuit – The New Rules For Real Estate And How To Buy A Home – PART 2
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of our series on the NAR lawsuit, David Sidoni reveals how the new rules and regulations are reshaping real estate and offers insider tips for buyers and sellers to navigate the changing landscape.
- The NAR lawsuit's shockwaves: How is it transforming real estate as we know it?
- Insider secrets: Get ahead of the curve with David Sidoni's expert strategies for buyers and sellers.
- New rules, new game: Understand the regulations reshaping the market and how to play by them.
- Consumer impact: What does the lawsuit mean for your wallet and your dream home?
- Real estate revolution: Discover the emerging trends and opportunities in the wake of this landmark case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, this is part two of a two-parter. If you have not listened to Part One, |
| 0:04.8 | jump back an episode, part one on the National Association of Realtors lawsuit. |
| 0:10.3 | This is part two. Welcome back, homies, to the calm, soothing, educational, informational fun time |
| 0:16.8 | with David Sedone and the How to Buy a Home breakdown of this blockbuster settlement, |
| 0:21.8 | chillaxed. This settlement is all about what's called the decoupling of cooperative |
| 0:27.2 | compensation from agent to agent, which is actually broker to broker. Now, if that was confusing, |
| 0:34.0 | think how it felt for the rest of us who had to read a 108-page lawyer settlement. |
| 0:40.2 | Attorneys know how to make everything complicated, but what was really interesting is, in my |
| 0:44.3 | research on this, there was a lawyer who summed up this whole thing best. This is a differently |
| 0:51.1 | itemized accounting of the same purchase price. That's all this settlement does. This is a differently itemized accounting of the same purchase price. |
| 0:55.3 | That's all this settlement does. |
| 0:57.1 | This is a differently itemized accounting of the same purchase price. |
| 1:01.6 | So again, this is part two of a two-part series. |
| 1:04.9 | You should have listened to part one first. |
| 1:06.7 | Now I'm going to go into the extreme details of the case. |
| 1:11.3 | This settlement comes after a Missouri federal jury issued a landmark $1.8 billion verdict. |
| 1:17.9 | That was October of last year, found that the National Association of Realtors and several |
| 1:22.1 | large real estate brokerages conspired to artificially inflate commissions on home sales. So that jury ordered |
| 1:29.5 | that the defendants, who at the time included NAR, Home Services of America, Keller Williams, |
| 1:34.1 | they had to pay $1.8 billion in damages, which would automatically actually triple to $5.3 billion. |
| 1:41.7 | That first jury verdict was not enforceable without more legal proceedings, so NAR opted. They were just going to settle this case for $5.3 billion. That first jury verdict was not enforceable without more legal proceedings. So NAR opted. |
| 1:46.6 | They were just going to settle this case for $418 million. In the settlement, NAR admits no wrongdoing, |
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