James Rodriguez

And for buyers, that could be a more complicated scenario.

Yeah, and that's always been, to some extent, the case.

You have agents that have good relationships with sellers in the area.

But if we see things change to where the Compass model and other big brokerages have either soft-launched this strategy or threatened to follow suit, what you could have is your choice of an agent would be a lot more fraught.

You might have to consider...

You know, to what extent are they able to unlock the marketplace for me?

So at the end of the day, it could be a more complicated home search.

I think that's the thing you have to look at here is that every company, they present these moral cases for homes should be listed everywhere or sellers should have the choice of where to list their homes.

Every company involved in this fight has a huge financial stake in this.

As one longtime real estate executive told me, listings are fuel.

And so this fight for listings is really at the heart of the real estate market and it could determine what kind of market do we have?

Is it a place where you can

go to any website and get a pretty good feel for what's out there?

Or are you really going to have to be a lot more careful about your search and think about who your agent is, what websites you're visiting, what other alternative methods you need to pursue to find your dream home?

It could just be a lot more complicated.

Thank you.

Hello and welcome.

Glad you are here.

Let's get started.

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