NAR and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a settlement, concluding a two-year DOJ investigation followed by two and half years of litigation regarding NAR's multiple listing policy pertaining to the display of listing from the MLS on brokers' Virtual Office Web sites, or VOWs. The settlement terms are favorable for NAR.

Bay East, CCAR and EBRD are in discussions to data share with the Quattro Alliance (Metrolist, BAREIS and San Francisco MLS) and MLS Listings. The Quattro Alliance and MLS Listings gives full MLS access (listing input and search, tax, email notification, CMA, etc) to all of the participating MLSs without agents having to join each one separately. We will keep you advised of all developments regarding this initiative.