Of the 15 settling defendants, six were named in the Gibson suit and nine in the Keel suit.
The Gibson settling defendants include Keyes Co./Illustrated Properties ($2.4 million), NextHome ($600,000), John L. Scott ($1 million), LoKation ($925,000), Real Estate One ($1.5 million), and Baird & Warner ($2.2 million).
The Keel settling defendants include Side ($5.5 million), Seven Gables Real Estate ($1 million), Washington Fine Properties ($1.3 million), JPAR ($700,000), Signature Properties of Huntington ($850,000), Central New York Information Services ($125,000), Brooklyn New York MLS ($95,000), First Team Real Estate — Orange County ($1 million), and Sibcy Cline ($895,000).
These settlement amounts bring the overall settlement total for the commission lawsuits to roughly $1.04 billion. More than 2.5 million claims had been filed in relation to the settlements as of May 9, 2025.
This is the second round of Gibson settlements that Bough has granted final approval for. He approved nine others during a hearing in late October 2024.
Bough also oversaw the Sitzer/Burnett suit and granted final approval to the settlements negotiated by RE/MAX, Keller Williams, Anywhere, HomeServices of America and the National Association of Realtors.
Path less traveled
While many commission lawsuit defendants have chosen to settle, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services has taken a different approach. The family-owned real estate firm has continued to pursue litigation in these lawsuits and has had some success.
Most recently, Howard Hanna saw some of the claims against it in the Davis commission lawsuit dismissed. On Monday, Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed claims made by homebuyer plaintiffs that the firm colluded with other brokerages to fix agent commissions.
Beetlestone used the rule of reason analysis to determine this judgment. This differs from the per se approach used by…