Coondoggie writes "Until today, most Internet-based real-estate brokers were calculated second-class citizens, and their clients were left in the cold. But perhaps that will change with today's news that the unit of Justice has reached a projected law settlement with the national affiliation of Realtors that requires NAR to let Internet-based residential real estate brokers compete with traditional brokers. NAR has agreed to be bound by a 10-year settlement, under whose terms NAR will repeal its anticompetitive policies and require affiliated many listing good works to repeal their rules that were based on these policies." Here's the whole settlement monument on the DoJ's site.

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