Competition record
Compass
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Compass is a residential brokerage that markets homes, including through pocket listings kept off the shared feed for a time. On 5 October 2026 California Regional MLS sued for a declaration that its one-day filing rule is lawful, after Compass threatened an antitrust claim the other way.
Overview
Compass recruits agents and lists houses, and a pocket listing is a home shown privately before other brokers can find it on a multiple listing service. The shared database is how the rest of the market cooperates on a sale.
California Regional MLS requires a listing to be filed within one day. Compass threatened to call that rule an antitrust violation, and on 5 October 2026 the MLS sued first, asking a court to declare the rule lawful.
The case is open. A request for a declaration is not a decision that the one-day rule, or Compass's pocket listings, has won.
Competition footprint
Pocket listings let Compass show a house to its own clients before rival agents can see it.
The one-day filing rule is the MLS practice Compass threatened to challenge and that the MLS is now defending in court.
The 5 October 2026 complaint has not been decided.
Consumer & business angle
Sellers choose whether a private marketing period is worth less exposure, and buyers who search only the MLS miss homes still off the feed.
Brokerages that file on the first day are the competitors a pocket listing holds back.
What to watch
- Whether the court declares the one-day filing rule lawful.
- Whether Compass files the antitrust claim it threatened.
Markets
residential brokerage · home listings · residential real estate listings
Also known as: compass real estate, compass brokerage