{"id":4150,"date":"2023-03-27T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/doj-appeals-decision-in-nar-antitrust-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:50:11","slug":"doj-appeals-decision-in-nar-antitrust-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/doj-appeals-decision-in-nar-antitrust-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ appeals decision in NAR antitrust probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As predicted, the <strong>Department of Justice<\/strong> (DOJ) is appealing a U.S. District Court <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/nar-victorious-in-renewed-doj-antitrust-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">judge\u2019s ruling<\/a> in its renewed antitrust investigation into the <strong>National Association of Realtors<\/strong> (NAR).<strong> <\/strong>The appeal notice was filed on Friday in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a great American pastime to never accept any court decision until you have finally been shut down by the U.S. Supreme Court. So, in short, yes, I do expect the DOJ to appeal the decision,\u201d Steve Murray, the co-founder of\u00a0<strong>RealTrends Consulting<\/strong>, told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/despite-doj-verdict-nar-isnt-out-of-the-antitrust-woods-just-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RealTrends<\/a><\/strong> in early February. \u201cThey will take it to a Federal Appellate court, and the court will have to decide if the judge made a mistake in his judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late January, Judge Timothy J. Kelly ruled that the earlier settlement terms reached by NAR and the DOJ were still valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government, like any party, must be held to the terms of its settlement agreements, whether or not a new administration likes those agreements,\u201d Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote in his ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the DOJ\u2019s antitrust division agreed to a settlement after investigating the trade groups listing and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/is-it-time-to-add-a-buyer-representation-agreement-to-your-business-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agent compensation policies<\/a>.&nbsp;The settlement proposed at the time included requirements for NAR to boost transparency about broker commissions and to stop misrepresenting that buyer broker services are free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the DOJ, under new leadership in the Biden administration, withdrew the settlement&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/is-nar-ready-to-rumble-with-doj\/?__hstc=43385018.53c88bd8769bd1a9521eaa786dbbb668.1679680498220.1679720219387.1679908954851.5&amp;__hssc=43385018.2.1679908954851&amp;__hsfp=1681125263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in July 2021<\/a>, stating that the terms of the agreement prevent regulators from continuing to investigate certain association rules that they feel harm buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAR filed a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.housingwire.com\/articles\/doj-probes-nar-pocket-listings-ban\/?__hstc=43385018.53c88bd8769bd1a9521eaa786dbbb668.1679680498220.1679720219387.1679908954851.5&amp;__hssc=43385018.2.1679908954851&amp;__hsfp=1681125263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a>&nbsp;in September 2021 to set aside or modify the DOJ\u2019s probes into the trade group. 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As stated in the court\u2019s original decision \u201c\u2026not setting aside the CID at issue would deprive NAR of the benefit for which it bargained: the closure of the Antitrust Division\u2019s investigation into its Participation Rule and Clear Cooperation Policy,&#8221; Mantill Williams, NAR&#8217;s vice president of communications, wrote in an email. &#8220;The government, like any party, must be held to the terms of its settlement agreements\u2026\u201d NAR guidance for local MLS broker marketplaces has long been recognized to promote fair, transparent and competitive real estate markets for consumers and businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice filed an appeal on Friday for a lower court&#8217;s decision in its renewed antitrust probe into NAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34740,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1760],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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