---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-005253"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EXPI"
cik: "0001495932"
company_name: "eXp World Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T21:38:31.602313+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EXPI named in antitrust class action over buyer broker fees and commissions

## Summary
- Putative class action filed April 11, 2024 in South Carolina federal court (Case No. 7:24-cv-01800-JDA).
- Alleges conspiracy to restrain trade by requiring sellers to pay buyer broker fees and inflating commissions.
- Plaintiffs seek to represent sellers who used a listing broker on a MLS in South Carolina from Nov 6, 2019 to present.
- Suit seeks permanent injunction, damages/restitution (amount unspecified), plus attorneys' fees and costs.
- Company warns additional antitrust litigation possible and could have material adverse effect on business.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-005253
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EXPI
- cik: 0001495932
- company_name: eXp World Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495932/000155837024005253/0001558370-24-005253-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495932/000155837024005253/expi-20240411x8k.htm

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