Home Buyers Have Until 11:59 Tonight to Claim From a $28.5 Million Commission Settlement — and a Second, Separate One Worth $120,334,500 Stays Open Until October 27

If you bought a home in the United States that was listed on an MLS, there are right now two separate class action settlements you may be able to claim from. They are both homebuyer commission cases, they are both in the Northern District of Illinois, and they are routinely written about as if they were one thing. They are not.

• Batton et al. v. National Association of Realtors, et al., Case No. 21 C 430 (N.D. Ill.), before Judge LaShonda A. Hunt. Settling defendants: Keller Williams ($20 million) and RE/MAX ($8.5 million) — $28.5 million in total. Official site: homebuyerlitigation.com. Claims close tonight.
• Tuccori et al. v. At World Properties, LLC, et al., Case No. 1:24-cv-00150 (N.D. Ill.), before Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins. Twenty-five defendant groups paying a combined $120,334,500. Official site: homebuyersettlement.com, administered by Epiq. Claims close October 27, 2026.

Submitting a claim on one site does nothing on the other. They have different administrators, different claim forms, different class period tables, and different end dates for the class period — April 14, 2026 for the first, June 25, 2026 for the second.

One thing both have in common, and it is the single most common misunderstanding about this whole line of litigation: neither of them pays you for selling a home. The Tuccori FAQ answers it in one word — “Does the Settlement include home sellers? No. Membership in the Settlement Class is based on home purchases. Merely having sold a home is not a basis for membership.” The seller-side money came out of different lawsuits, which the FAQ names: Burnett, Gibson, Keel and Hooper. If you have been waiting on the widely reported Realtor settlement because you sold a house, you have been waiting on a different case.

The Batton settlements are further along than most people filing today realise. The court held the fairness hearing on August 4, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 1425 of the Dirksen Courthouse in Chicago, and Judge Hunt granted final approval that day. Trade coverage of the hearing records something unusual: no class member objected and no class member opted out.

So the approval question is settled. The only thing still open is the claim window, and the site states it without wiggle room:

“Claim Forms must be submitted on the Claim Form tab on or before 11:59 p.m. Central Time on August 25, 2026 OR postmarked by August 25, 2026.”

The class is defined as “All persons (including entities) who purchased residential real estate in the United States, from the beginning of the State Statutory Period through April 14, 2026, that was listed on a multiple listing service (‘MLS’).” Note “including entities” — an LLC that bought a house is inside the definition.

And if you do nothing: “If you do not submit a timely and valid Claim Form, you will not receive any payment from the Settlements. You will nevertheless be bound by past and any future Court rulings.” That is the trade in every claims-made settlement, and it is why a missed deadline is not a neutral event.

The Tuccori settlement is the larger of the two by a wide margin, and its FAQ publishes something settlement sites usually keep in a PDF nobody opens — the exact contribution of every single defendant. We reproduce it in full because the shape of it is the story: one defendant is 43 percent of the fund, and the smallest is $63,000.

Two details from the FAQ that change what you should expect. First, this is not one cheque: “The Global Settlement Fund will be funded in installments from the Defendants. As a result, there will be multiple payments issued to the Class Members over a period of” years — the FAQ says the net amount “will be paid out in more than one payment issued over several years.” Second, the amount is not a flat per-person figure. It depends on “the total number of valid claim forms and information unique to each class member such as the number of properties purchased and the amount of commissions paid in those transactions.” Someone who bought three houses and paid large commissions is not getting the same as someone who bought one.

The other dates on that case: exclude yourself or object by September 17, 2026; the final fairness hearing is November 2, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins. Nothing is paid before that hearing, and possibly not before appeals are done.

This is where people wrongly rule themselves out. Neither settlement has one nationwide start date. Both use a table of state statutory periods, and the Tuccori settlement uses two different tables depending on which defendant your claim runs against.

Tuccori — claims against NAR, Anywhere, Compass, eXp, HomeServices/BHH/HSF, Hanna Holdings, United Real Estate Group and Douglas Elliman (all periods end June 25, 2026):

• January 25, 2006 — Puerto Rico
• January 25, 2011 — Rhode Island, Louisiana
• January 25, 2013 — Wyoming
• January 25, 2015 — Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin
• January 25, 2016 — Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Utah, West Virginia
• January 25, 2017 — Arizona, California, Washington D.C., Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Virginia
• January 25, 2018 — Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington
• January 25, 2019 — Texas, and all other homes across the United States

Tuccori — claims against the brokerage defendants (At World Properties, Baird & Warner, Real Estate One, Silvercreek, Equity Real Estate, NextHome, Realty Executives, Shorewest, Side, Engel & Völkers, Keyes/Illustrated, The Real Brokerage/Real Broker, Vanguard, Fathom, HomeSmart, Realty ONE Group, Umro/The Agency), also ending June 25, 2026:

• December 8, 2017 — Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming
• December 8, 2018 — Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri
• December 8, 2019 — all other homes across the United States

The Batton (Keller Williams / RE/MAX) table follows the same January 25 pattern as the first list above but ends on April 14, 2026 instead of June 25, 2026, with Texas starting January 25, 2019 and Puerto Rico January 25, 2006.

One practical note the Tuccori administrator makes itself, and it matters today: “per the United States Postal Service, mail may not be postmarked the day it is deposited in a mailbox or at a local post office… To meet a postmark deadline, mail at least a week prior.” For a deadline that expires tonight, the online form is the only realistic route.

The Batton FAQ, on the settlement site that closes tonight, says this: “The lawsuit is still ongoing against the other (non-Settling) Defendants, The National Association of REALTORS® (‘NAR’) and Anywhere Real Estate Inc.”

Meanwhile the Tuccori settlement — a different case number, a different judge, a different administrator — lists NAR paying $52,250,000 and Anywhere Real Estate paying $9,602,500.

Both statements can be true at once, because they are different lawsuits with different released claims, and a defendant can settle one homebuyer case while still litigating another. But we cannot tell you from the public settlement websites alone exactly how the releases interact for a buyer who is in both classes, and we are not going to guess at it. The Tuccori class definition does carve out people who already released claims against a given defendant in the Burnett, Gibson, Keel or Hooper seller cases — “but only as to that Settling Defendant” — which shows the drafters were tracking overlaps deliberately.

The practical consequence for a homebuyer is simpler than the legal question: if you qualify for both, file both, on both sites, before each deadline. Nothing on either official site suggests that claiming one forfeits the other, and the class definitions are drawn from different case numbers.

Both sites are court-approved administrators. Neither charges anything. Any site that asks you for a fee to file either claim is not the administrator.