Become a Champion of MLS

Campaign Accomplishments

In only the first year since launching this campaign, CMLS has become a recognized advocacy organization. Our most noteworthy accomplishments so far include:

• Securing a meeting with the DOJ to advocate what a strong MLS system is vital to the real estate market’s health, efficiency, and stability.
• Hired Edgeworth Economics to analyze MLS data and produce a report showing the MLS’s pro-consumer and pro-competitive nature.
• Submitted our amicus brief in the Nosalek suit, using data to support our points.
• Published a widely distributed keystone white paper, “The Value of the MLS: How Multiple Listing Services Benefit Consumers and Advance Real Estate Competition.

Your Investment at Work

Your investment supports campaign work including:

1. To produce quantitative research demonstrating the pro-consumer nature of the MLS.

2. To retain legal advisors with experience engaging the FTC and DOJ.

3. To ensure that MLS leaders are present and engaged in discussions with regulators.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a one-time or yearly pledge?

Currently, this is a one-time ask. Developments with regulators and within our industry will determine what our future needs might be.

Is this a lobbying effort?

No. We will not be lobbying elected officials or lawmakers. This is a campaign to engage regulators and exercise thought leadership.

Isn’t the NAR already doing this? 

The NAR has, and is, pursuing its own efforts to speak to the pro-consumer nature of the U.S. real estate market, and we support these efforts. The Champions of MLS campaign complements these efforts from an MLS perspective — a perspective that includes the brokers and agents that depend on the MLS to serve consumers.

Why should we support this campaign? 

The DOJ, FTC, and an array of litigants are pursuing inquiries that threaten the pro-consumer MLS system as we know it. These inquiries are based on incomplete information. If you believe in the MLS, and want to continue to see it thrive, your support is critical.