Montana Flat Fee MLS

	Allows choice of brokerage services
	Allows brokers to offer rebates to consumers

Montana supports free and open competition for consumers within the real estate industry:

• In August 2007, the Board of Realty Regulation adopted a new regulation prohibiting brokers from offering rebates, gifts, or promotional items to their clients. In response to an investigation by the Antitrust Division, the Board decided in April 2008 to reverse the rule and allow brokers to offer rebates to their customers.

• In August 2008, the Board of Realty Regulation proposed a regulation that would have required real estate licensees to participate in all aspects of the negotiations to buy or sell a home (including negotiating contracts, completing forms, and presenting offers and counteroffers), regardless of whether their customers wanted them to perform these tasks. The Antitrust Division wrote a letter to the Board of Realty Regulation opposing this rule because it would reduce consumer choice and innovation, and increase fees.
  
  In December 2008, the Board issued an amended version of the rule, which allows home buyers and sellers to waive these services in writing. On March 13, 2009, the Board adopted the amended rule, and it took effect upon publication in the Montana Administrative Register in May 2009.

Montana Flat fee MLS is a term used to describe a practice in Montana in which realtors place pertinent information about a Montana property for sale into the database of a Montana local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for a set fee or dollar amount as opposed to a commission based on the contract selling price of the property.

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