The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it had
reached a proposed settlement with the National Association of Realtors
(NAR) to end a long-simmering dispute over the use of multiple
listings on the Internet.
The basis of the dispute and an eventual anti-trust lawsuit against NAR filed in 2005 was what DOJ
called “policies and related rules that obstructed real estate brokers
who use innovative Internet-based tools to offer..