Residential Real Estate Buyer Brokerage Commissions Class Action

A class action settlement has been reached with RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc. (“RE/MAX”) on behalf of all persons who sold residential real estate on a multiple listing service owned and operated by a defendant real estate board or association between March 11, 2010 and July 31, 2025 (“Class”). The Class includes persons who reside or are domiciled outside of Canada. It also includes residents of or those domiciled in Canada.

The settlement requires RE/MAX to: (1) pay $7.8 million; (2) cooperate in the ongoing prosecution of the class actions against the non-settling defendants; and (3) implement a number of practice changes going forward, including ending the practice of requiring its franchisees and their affiliated brokers, salespersons and agents to join or to be members of a real estate board or association defendant or to follow the rules alleged to give rise to damages claimed in this proceeding.

The settlement is not an admission of liability, wrongdoing, or fault on the part of RE/MAX. RE/MAX denies that it participated in any wrongdoing or has any liability and disagrees with the allegations in the lawsuit.

If you are a Class Member and you do not want to be bound by the outcome of the Actions, including the terms of the settlement if approved, you must “opt out”, meaning that you must exclude yourself from the Actions in accordance with the following procedure. To opt out of the Action, you must complete, sign and return (by email, mail or courier) the opt- out form, which is available here.