HousingWire surveyed real estate agents on post-settlement commission changes. The results indicate not much has changed.

“They just took a snowscape and threw some grass over it on one section of the lawn, and called it good enough,” said Ziegler, a realtor with Arborview Realty in Boston.

A fight over exclusive home listings could make it harder to find houses on Zillow and prevent real estate commissions from dropping as expected.

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