![]() The Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service, Hubbell contended, is generally not policing pocket listings, particularly in the more rural, northeast region of the state. Hubbell said paying dues to a few MLSs is needed with urban buyers considering a rural relocation. Like Cook, Dana Hubbell, a broker at Dana Hubbell Group in Chandler, Arizona has joined a few MLSs. “Since then, we have received relatively few complaints and only a handful of fines have been levied.” Midwest Real Estate Data’s “private listing network policy went into effect in April 2016,” said a spokesperson for that MLS. ![]() MLSs anecdotally report that the pocket listings ban – or their own version of said ban – has resulted in few disciplinary matters. ![]() “It all comes down to leadership of the MLS, and what they want to uphold.” “I know they communicate pretty regularly there,” Cook said. There’s perhaps more policing in the Cape Cod area, whose MLS is owned by the local NAR affiliate. Just as MLS ownership and structure varies so too does enforcement among MLSs. “Someone has to report it, and even if they report something, everyone looks the other way.” “It’s not being enforced,” the broker claimed. The owner of a HomeSmart affiliated brokerage in Plymouth, Massachusetts and member of his local realtor board, Cook contends that MLS PIN – again, not owned by an NAR chapter, but with its own listing requirement – does not police said requirement. ![]() Plus, Cook hands over fees to the Rhode Island State-Wide MLS and Cape Cod & Islands MLS. There’s the $87 every three months he pays to MLS PIN, and the extra $100 a month he pays as a broker for their data feed. Part 2 examines how MLSs have implemented the measure so far, and legal challenges to the pocket prohibition. Part 1 looked at the history of the ban and inherent enforcement problems it posed. This is HousingWire’s two-part series examining the ramifications of NAR’s decision last year to ban pocket listings.
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