In accordance with the MLS system's long-standing focus on creating an efficient, transparent marketplace for home buyers and sellers, the amount of compensation offered to buyers' agents for each MLS listing will be made publicly available. Publicly accessible MLS data feeds will include offers of compensation, and buyers' agents will have an affirmative obligation to provide such information to their clients for homes of interest.

While NAR has long encouraged buyers' agents to explain how they expect to be paid, there will be a rule that more definitively states that buyers' agents cannot represent that their services are free to clients.

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