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A class action settlement totaling $120,334,500 has been reached against the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) and a group of residential real estate brokerage companies, opening a claims process for many American home buyers.
The payout covers buyers who purchased a home listed on a Multiple Listing Service and paid a commission to any brokerage during that transaction. The announcement was made July 17, 2026.
Who qualifies and what the settlement covers The eligibility criteria have two requirements: the property must have been listed on a Multiple Listing Service, and a commission must have been paid to a brokerage as part of the transaction.
Those two conditions describe a purchase structure that has been common across American residential real estate. The breadth of that definition is the settlement's key commercial feature.
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