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Detractors of the the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Policy are intensifying their efforts to have the 1.5 million-member trade group eliminate the rule.
The American Real Estate Association, a rival trade group launched in the wake of harassment accusations at NAR, launched a petition Friday calling on NAR to end the controversial policy.
The petition had garnered more than 2,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon at 6: 30 p.m. Eastern.
Jason Haber
“We are just getting started,” Jason Haber, a Compass agent and one of the association’s founders, told Inman.
“We rolled out the petition over the weekend as we wanted to put forth these ideas into the public square. Today, being the first work day it was live, the response has been remarkable. Once we hit 2,500, we keep going. The goal of the petition and our effort is not to be antagonistic, but to help NAR understand that agents across the country are ready to move on from Clear Cooperation.”
The Clear Cooperation Policy, which went into effect in 2020, requires listing brokers to submit a listing to their multiple listing service within one business day of marketing a property to the public.
“Enacted under the guise of increasing transparency, the Clear Cooperation Policy has placed severe restrictions on both homeowners’ consumer choice and the ethical obligations of real estate professionals,” the American Real Estate Association’s petition reads.
“Under this policy, real estate professionals are forced to submit listings to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) within one business day of public marketing, regardless of their clients’ wishes. This…