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HomeLight

HomeLight, Inc. runs an online platform that introduces home sellers and buyers to real estate agents, takes cash-offer requests through Simple Sale, and offers a Buy Before You Sell program and a HELOC card through an affiliated lender, HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. (NMLS 1529229). HomeLight's client FAQ says finding an agent through it is free for buyers and sellers and that the agent pays HomeLight a referral fee after the transaction; its Terms say it may contact people who submit a request by phone, text and email and pass their details to its partners. Federal dockets checked on October 3, 2026 list two putative class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (filed December 2025 and January 2026; in the January case the court denied HomeLight's motion to dismiss on July 13, 2026, a ruling on whether the complaint states a claim, not on whether it is true) and a September 29, 2026 filing against HomeLight Settlement, LLC and HomeLight, Inc. that PacerMonitor classifies as a civil-rights employment case; an earlier 2021 suit against HomeLight was dismissed with prejudice. BBB, CFPB, Trustpilot and ComplaintsBoard figures are external, are reported separately and unchanged in the complaint record section, and are not this site's rating; zero complaints have been submitted to USAComplaints.

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VERIFIED PHONE(888) 688-0350
LAST CHECKED2026-10-03
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BBB: 22 reviews, 26 complaints
CFPB: 1 complaints
ComplaintsBoard: 15 reviews, 0 reports
Trustpilot: 8 reviews,
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Locations

TypeAddress
Headquarters1375 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 140 Scottsdale AZ 85257
Branch office100 California Street, Suite 800 San Francisco CA 94111
EDITORIAL

Using HomeLight to sell or buy? What to check

HomeLight, Inc. describes its core service in its Terms of Service this way: "Matchmaking is the core of what we do for real estate. When the time is right, we make a professional introduction between you and one of our Real Estate partners." The same Terms say "HOMELIGHT IS NOT YOUR AGENT, DOES NOT REPRESENT YOU, AND WILL NOT BE PERFORMING ANY REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE SERVICES ON YOUR BEHALF BEYOND INTRODUCING YOU TO QUALIFIED REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS," and that any transaction "WILL BE CONDUCTED BY LOCAL REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS OR INVESTORS THAT HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO YOU AND ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH HOMELIGHT, INC." The Terms page shows no last-updated date; the Privacy Policy shows "Last Modified: June 2026."

How HomeLight is paid. HomeLight's client FAQ (homelight.com/client-agent-matching and /selling-starts-here) says: "Finding an agent through HomeLight is 100% free for buyers and sellers, and there's no commitment required." Asked how it makes money, it answers: "When you complete your transaction with the agent recommended by HomeLight, the agent pays us a customary broker-to-broker referral fee." The Terms tell buyers and sellers that HomeLight "MAY RECEIVE payment (a Referral Fee) that may be a percentage of the commission received by the professionals involved in the real estate transaction. There is no charge to you. Any payment is due based on a separate agreement between us and the professional involved," and tell agents that the fee "will be a percentage of the gross commission you earn." The percentage of that agent referral fee was not stated on the client pages or Terms read on 2026-09-30. HomeLight's FAQ also says you are "under no obligation to work with any of the real estate agents we recommend." Your listing or buyer-agent agreement and commission are between you and the agent, so ask any agent HomeLight introduces to put the commission and any referral arrangement in writing.

Calls, texts and sharing your details. The Terms say that when you submit a request you "authorize us to use and provide this information to make an introduction" and "consent to being contacted by us and by our partners via phone, email, mail or other reasonable means." A separate communications clause covers calls and texts "using an automatic telephone dialing system" "as the law allows, even if those phone numbers are registered by you on any federal or state Do-Not-Call/Do-Not-email registry," and says consent to recurring texts "is not required as a condition of purchase." HomeLight's FAQ explains why it calls: "talking to you about your needs is the best way to ensure you find a perfect fit." The Privacy Policy says HomeLight may disclose personal information to "real estate agents and potential pre-approved cash buyers, with your express written consent or at your direction," and that it may use AI to "assist with phone calls and text messages, including by using artificial or prerecorded voices (some of which may be generated by AI)." The Terms also say that a call with a HomeLight representative or a referred agent through "one of HomeLight's tracked phone numbers" may be recorded: "HomeLight may create a digital audio recording of the call," and you "acknowledge and agree that your phone call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes only." The consent screen a visitor sees when submitting the form was not viewed for this page (no forms were submitted), so the Terms and Privacy Policy wording above is what was checked.

To stop contact, per HomeLight's Privacy Policy (June 2026):

  • Calls: call 866-627-3398 "to ask to be removed from our promotional calling list."
  • Texts: reply STOP to a promotional text; the policy also lists "quit," "end," "revoke," "cancel" and "unsubscribe" as recognized opt-out words.
  • Any channel: you may revoke consent "by any reasonable method," including emailing [email protected]; HomeLight says it will honor a request "within a reasonable time, not to exceed ten (10) business days."
  • Scope of an opt-out: the policy says that if you have signed up for more than one type of message and do not say which to stop, "we will treat your request as revoking consent for all of our telemarketing calls and texts," and that after you opt out HomeLight may send a one-time confirmation message.
  • Emails: use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the message.
  • Agents and investors who already received your details are separate businesses from HomeLight, so each one has to be told to stop. In answers displayed on HomeLight's BBB profile (November 13, 2025 and February 9, 2026), HomeLight wrote that it had manually removed the person's contact information from its system and, in text partly masked by BBB, asked the person to request removal from any investor who reaches out after being unsubscribed; in the February 2026 thread the complainant replied that they wanted HomeLight itself to contact those recipients.
  • Privacy rights (access, deletion, opt-out of sale or sharing): call 866-627-3398 or use HomeLight's online form; appeals go to [email protected] with the subject "Privacy Request Appeal." The footer has a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link.
  • Keep dated records of each stop request and each call or text. Unwanted calls or texts can also be reported to the FCC (consumercomplaints.fcc.gov, "Robocalls, Unwanted Calls & Texts") and the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov).

Simple Sale cash offers. The Simple Sale page (homelight.com/simple, read 2026-09-30 and again 2026-10-03; the cited text was unchanged) gives two timing figures: the headline says "Get a no obligation cash offer in 48 hours," and step 2 says "Within 24 hours you get a no-obligation cash offer beside an open-market estimate from a top local agent." It says you can "Close in as few as 10 days or as many as 60," that the date "can move once at no cost" if your next home slips, that buyers purchase as-is with material inspection findings "handled as a credit," and that "Nothing is binding until you sign." On cost it says: "Does a cash offer cost me anything? No. Seeing the offer is free and carries no obligation. Fees are disclosed in writing before you sign, and they come out of proceeds at closing." No fee amount is published on the page. It also says that a seller will "Often" net less than listing on the open market and that "Most sellers net more on the open market. Simple Sale exists for the cases where certainty and speed are worth more than the last few percent." The page text does not name the purchasing entity; the Terms refer to "real estate investment partners," so check who the buyer is and what fees are deducted in the written offer before signing.

Buy Before You Sell (the older address homelight.com/trade-in shows this same page). HomeLight's page (read 2026-10-03) describes an "Equity Unlock" of "up to 90% of CLTV (up to $2M), at 0% interest" that is used as the down payment on the new home and "repaid from the proceeds when your old home sells," and says HomeLight "places a backup offer on your current home when you enroll." The page footer lists HomeLight Home Loans, Inc., NMLS ID# 1529229, and homelighthomeloans.com says "HomeLight Home Loans powers HomeLight's Buy Before You Sell program." On cost the consumer page says: "There's no fee to get pre-qualified and no interest on the Equity Unlock. The program fee is disclosed up front and paid when your current home sells. Your agent keeps their full commission." The note under its example calculator says the example "Includes a 2.4% BBYS program fee, an estimated $700 inspection fee and $250 notary/recording fee. Actual results and fees vary," and the page calls its examples "Illustrative examples, not a quote or a prediction." HomeLight's Agent Help Center "Pricing & Fees" page adds that the program fee "is based on the final sale price of the current home," that "Minimums apply if the final sale price is less than $375,000," that there is "an additional $1,500 fee" if HomeLight Closing Services is not used on one of the transactions, and a $1,500 fee per transaction in Chicago (Cook, Kane, Peoria and Will counties), adding "Pricing subject to change." That page states no percentage. Two HomeLight-hosted pages addressed to loan officers do: lenders.homelight.com/lennar ("Buy Before You Sell | Lennar") says "the fee is 2.4% of the final sale price of the current home. Minimums apply if the final sale price is less than $375,000," and lenders.homelight.com/the-mortgage-link says "the fee is 2.4%* of the departing residence's price" (the asterisk is not explained next to that sentence). Those pages describe lender-partner versions of the program and do not say whether the same rate applies to every consumer, and the Help Center page says "Pricing subject to change," so ask for the program fee in dollars, in writing, for your price. The consumer page read on 2026-09-30 was worded differently: it called HomeLight Home Loans "our sister company," said "there is a program fee adjusted upon the sale of the departing residence," and described a Home Sale Guarantee ("If your current home doesn't sell within 120 days of purchasing your new home, HomeLight will buy the property ..."). The 2026-10-03 text of the consumer page contains the backup-offer wording above and no 120-day sentence. The two lender pages above (read 2026-10-03) still say: "If the client's current home isn't sold within 120 days of purchasing their new home, HomeLight will step in to buy it. The client will receive 100% of the net profits, less our program fee and any additional costs (taxes, insurance, etc.) incurred during HomeLight's ownership, after it sells on the market." Pages change, so read the agreement you are offered for the exact terms. HomeLight's payoff support page (help.homelight.com/bbys-payoff-support, read 2026-10-03) says you can call its payoff department to confirm wire information for Buy Before You Sell or HomeLight Home Loans, and lists "BBYS Program Fee Payment: (415) 906-7541" and "BBYS Loan Payoff: (415) 906-3304," Monday through Friday, "7:00 a.m. MST to 5:00 pm."

Listing Management Pro (for agents). HomeLight's Manage Payments page (help.homelight.com/manage-payments, read 2026-09-30) says monthly subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in account settings under billing, that you must cancel "at least 1 day before the renewal date," and that "previous charges will not be refunded." It says annual cancellation requests go to [email protected], that brand-new annual sign-ups come with a "14-day money-back guarantee," and that after 14 days you are charged for one month of service, with a one-time prorated refund after 30 days only "within the first 6 months."

HELOC Card. HomeLight's HELOC page says: "HELOC are issued by HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. and cards are issued by Continental Bank, pursuant to a license granted by Mastercard," and that "Your home serves as a collateral for this credit line." Rates and fees were not published on the page read.

Where to complain.

  • HomeLight: for buying or selling, HomeLight's Agent Help Center says "please give us a call at (888) 688-0350"; the agent-matching page also lists (424) 297-1583; a contact form is linked at help.homelight.com/contact-us. The same help center says, in answer to whether HomeLight has a support phone number for an account, "No, HomeLight's main form of communication is via email."
  • Mortgage or HELOC: the CFPB (consumerfinance.gov/complaint, 855-411-2372) and your state mortgage regulator; HomeLight's licensing page gives the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending's hotline, 1-877-276-5550, for Texas borrowers.
  • An agent's conduct: the agent's brokerage and state real estate licensing agency.
  • BBB: complaints can be filed at bbb.org; HomeLight's answers are displayed on its profile.
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Licenses and regulator records

California brokerage. The California Department of Real Estate public lookup showed, on 2026-09-30: License Type CORPORATION; Name HomeLight, Inc.; License ID 01900940; status LICENSED; expiration 06/29/27; corporation license issued 06/30/11; former name AgentBrain Corporation; main office 100 California St #800, San Francisco; mailing address 1375 N Scottsdale Rd #140, Scottsdale, AZ; designated officer Uher, Andrew Justin; "DBA HomeLight"; no current branches; two salespersons listed; and the comment "NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS." HomeLight's licensing page says "HomeLight, Inc. is a licensed real estate broker in the State of California, DRE license # 01900940." Other states' real estate registrations were not checked for this page.

Mortgage lending. HomeLight Home Loans, Inc., a separate company at 1375 N. Scottsdale Rd. #125, Scottsdale, lists NMLS ID 1529229. A table on homelight.com/licenses lists state entries for 43 states and the District of Columbia, for example Arizona "Mortgage Banker License # BK-1002493," California "Licensed Residential Mortgage Lending Act License # 41DBO-72514" and Florida "Mortgage Lender License # MLD1789"; the Texas row reads "Mortgage Company License" and "Residential Mortgage Loan Servicer Registration" without numbers. The page also carries a Texas notice stating that HomeLight Home Loans "IS A REGISTERED MORTGAGE BANKER UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS" and directing complaints to the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending. These license statements are the company's own; NMLS Consumer Access records were not opened for this page because that site requires accepting its terms agreement first.

Enforcement searches. No enforcement action against HomeLight, Inc. or HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. was identified in the sources checked on 2026-09-30: the CFPB Enforcement Actions page filtered by the keyword "homelight" returned "Sorry, there were no results based on your filter selections"; the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending site search for "homelight" returned "Oops! Nothing found here"; the California DFPI site search showed no HomeLight entry; the California Attorney General's data-breach list, searched by organization name "homelight," stated "There are currently no published reported breaches"; and the California DRE record above shows no disciplinary action. These checks are not exhaustive: FTC and other states' attorney-general and regulator enforcement pages were not searched completely.

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Company background

The company's footer and copyright line read "HomeLight, Inc., 1375 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 140, Scottsdale, AZ 85257"; the About page lists offices in Scottsdale and at 100 California Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, and BBB labels its Scottsdale listing "Headquarters." The footer of HomeLight's lender pages (lender.homelight.com/lenders and /lenders/general, read 2026-10-03) instead reads "HomeLight, Inc. 100 California Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94111." On the homelight.com footer, the separate HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. line reads "1375 N. Scottsdale Rd. #125," and the licensing page uses the same #125 address. A court caption in Hopkins v. HomeLight describes the defendant as "HOMELIGHT, INC., a Delaware corporation." The California DRE record lists a former name, AgentBrain Corporation. HomeLight's careers page says "Founded in 2012," and the company description displayed on its BBB profile says the same, while BBB's raw profile data shows a business start of April 27, 2011 and an incorporation date of October 5, 2016 (BBB fields not explained on the profile), and the California DRE record shows the corporation license issued 06/30/11. These sources give different years, so this page states no single founding year. The company's About page names Drew Uher as Founder and CEO.

The homelight.com product list includes agent matching for buyers and sellers, a Home Value Estimator, calculators, Simple Sale, Buy Before You Sell, HomeLight Home Loans, the HELOC Card, and agent-facing HomeLight Offers, Listing Management and Closing Services. HomeLight's leadership bio says Accept.inc "was acquired by HomeLight in June 2022." The company says it partners with "30K+ of the top real estate agents and lenders," supports "over $1B of real estate transactions" each year and has worked with "over 1M happy clients" (company statements, not verified here). The HomeLight Closing Services website (homelightclosingservices.com) has a Texas page titled "HomeLight Settlement, LLC Texas" describing "HomeLight Title Texas"; that LLC name matches a defendant in a September 29, 2026 lawsuit described below, and the pages read do not say how that LLC is owned.

Recent company news: HomeLight's press page lists an April 27, 2026 announcement that it launched EVA, an AI-powered escrow agent, together with "$40 million in new debt financing from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock," and a June 4, 2026 Inman article about EVA. The press page lists nothing dated later than June 4, 2026 as of September 30, 2026.

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Complaint record: USAComplaints, BBB, CFPB, Trustpilot and ComplaintsBoard, reported separately

USAComplaints: no approved complaints about HomeLight were found in this site's database as of 2026-09-30, so no complaint themes are shown. The figures below come from other sites, are shown as displayed on 2026-09-30, and are not combined or averaged.

  • BBB (profile for HomeLight Inc, Scottsdale, AZ, labeled "Headquarters"), as displayed on 2026-10-03: BBB Accredited Business with an A+ rating; BBB's raw data shows accreditation dated 2019-10-29 and a file opened 2019-09-27. The Complaints tab says "26 total complaints in the last 3 years" and "4 complaints closed in the last 12 months," with a note that BBB may display only some complaints; 21 are displayed across three pages (10, 10 and 1), dated October 15, 2023 to February 7, 2026, and BBB labels them Service or Repair Issues (8), Product Issues (5), Billing Issues (2), Delivery Issues (2), Order Issues (2), Customer Service Issues (1) and Sales and Advertising Issues (1). The Reviews tab shows "1.77 /5 stars, Average of 22 Customer Reviews"; the newest displayed review is dated 09/02/2026 and the next 06/29/2026, both one star. In the 09/02/2026 review the reviewer says the business has bad communication and that, while they pursued a loan, an inspector sent for an appraisal looked inside their refrigerator and at their laundry; in the 06/29/2026 review the reviewer says the site required choosing two of three listed agents and that agents began calling before they had agreed to work with anyone (each is the reviewer's account; the review text was partly truncated in the extract read). A BBB search for "HomeLight Home Loans" returned no results.
  • Subjects of the BBB complaints on the first page of the Complaints tab (10 of the 21 displayed, dated November 2, 2024 to February 7, 2026; pages 2 and 3, October 15, 2023 to October 22, 2024, were read for type and date only; each is the complainant's account and HomeLight's answers are displayed on the profile): unwanted calls and emails from agents or investors after submitting a request, including one from February 7, 2026 alleging that contact details were passed to at least eight agents after a cash-offer request; a person who says they received calls about a home they do not own; calls despite the National Do Not Call Registry; repeated calls after a written request to stop; a person who says they used a program "similar to a bridge loan" and then received daily loan-sales calls; and a real estate agent who says they were billed for Pro features after changing brokerages and could not reach support. HomeLight's displayed answers to two of these say it removed the person's contact information from its system.
  • CFPB Consumer Complaint Database: the company name "HomeLight, Inc." has 1 complaint, received July 30, 2021 (product: Mortgage; issue: Closing on a mortgage; company response: Closed with explanation; timely: Yes) and none in the last 12 months. HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. did not appear as a separate company name in the database's company-name suggestions.
  • Trustpilot (homelight.com): 2.2 from 8 reviews; the profile is shown as unclaimed, with the notes "No history of asking for reviews" and "This company hasn't invited their customers, so reviews may not be representative."
  • ComplaintsBoard: the HomeLight page shows 3.2 from 15 reviews and 0 complaints, with "Updated on Aug 30, 2026" and a "Claim Your Business" option.
EDITORIAL

Lawsuits naming HomeLight

The cases below are allegations and procedural events from public dockets on CourtListener (and, for Johnson and Nijjar, PacerMonitor's docket listings), the Hopkins, Johnson and Nijjar dockets re-checked on 2026-10-03 and the other dockets checked on 2026-09-30. A complaint's claims are not findings. Rulings are quoted from the court's own orders where they were available.

Hopkins v. HomeLight, Inc. (W.D. Wash., No. 3:26-cv-05017-BHS, filed January 8, 2026). The court's July 13, 2026 order describes a putative class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. 227: the plaintiff alleges that on October 22, 2025 he received a call from HomeLight's agent offering to connect him to a real estate agent for help selling his home, asked the caller to stop, and received three more calls that day and two the next, then text messages from October 23 that continued until November 30, 2025 despite repeated requests to stop. Count One alleges calls and texts to a number on the national Do Not Call registry (47 C.F.R. 64.1200(c)); Count Two alleges HomeLight ignored opt-out requests or lacked internal do-not-call procedures (47 C.F.R. 64.1200(d)). HomeLight's motion to dismiss argued the statute covers calls but not texts, that the messages were not solicitations, and that the plaintiff did not allege it lacked internal procedures. The court wrote that the complaint "plausibly alleges sufficient facts" for both counts and that HomeLight's motion "is DENIED." That ruling addresses only whether the complaint states a claim; it is not a finding that the allegations are true. The docket shows HomeLight's answer to the amended complaint on August 10, 2026 and later filings through entry 42 (September 28, 2026). CourtListener labels entries after the order, for example "Bifurcate" (July 28), "Certify" (August 17), "Response to Motion" (September 15) and "Reply to Response to Motion" (September 22); most of those documents are not in its free archive, so their contents are not described here.

Johnson v. HomeLight, Inc. (D. Ariz., No. 2:25-cv-04981-DWL, filed December 30, 2025; PacerMonitor lists Judge Dominic W. Lanza, nature of suit 485 Telephone Consumer Protection Act, cause 47:227). Gina Johnson sued "on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated"; her April 24, 2026 filing refers to text-message claims under 47 U.S.C. 227(c)(5) and to HomeLight's motion to dismiss her first amended complaint (filed March 20, 2026). On March 6, 2026 the docket shows an amended complaint and, the same day, a notice of voluntary dismissal of one party: PacerMonitor's docket text reads "Party Jessica McCammon (on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated) terminated," and the amended complaint was filed by Gina Johnson alone. PacerMonitor's docket text for the later entries (May 11 to September 29, 2026), which CourtListener labels "Notice (Other)," describes notices of supplemental authority filed by Johnson and by HomeLight concerning the motion to dismiss (for example entry 29, September 29, 2026, filed by HomeLight with four exhibits). No order on the motion to dismiss appears in either listing through entry 29, and the claims beyond those text-message references were not available in the free archive.

Nijjar v. HomeLight Settlement, LLC, et al. (E.D. Tex., No. 4:26-cv-01398, filed September 29, 2026). CourtListener shows a complaint, summonses and a disclosure statement and names only HomeLight Settlement, LLC as a party. PacerMonitor's listing (docket last updated October 1, 2026) names two defendants, HomeLight Settlement, LLC and HomeLight, Inc., shows summonses issued to both on September 29, 2026, assigns Judge Michael J. Truncale, and classifies the case as nature of suit 442 "Civil Rights - Employment," cause "42:1983 Civil Rights (Employment Discrimination)." The 13-page complaint text is not publicly available, so the claims were not read; the classification codes are PacerMonitor's listing of the court's filing data and are not a statement of the allegations. This filing is not shown to be a consumer case.

McLaughlin v. HomeLight, Inc. (C.D. Cal., No. 2:21-cv-05379-MCS-KES). A real estate agent sued under the Lanham Act, alleging HomeLight's lists of "top" agents in Agoura Hills were false advertising and implied no "pay-for-play" relationship although agents share commission with HomeLight. On September 17, 2021 the court granted HomeLight's motion to dismiss "without leave to amend and with prejudice," holding the plaintiff had not pleaded statutory standing (proximate cause) and that HomeLight's identification of "top" agents was "nonactionable puffery"; judgment was entered the same day.

HomeLight, Inc. v. Shkipin (N.D. Cal., No. 5:22-cv-03119-PCP, filed May 27, 2022 by HomeLight; docket lists nature of suit "Trademark"). A suit HomeLight filed against Dmitry Shkipin and others; the court's orders describe the defendant as a competitor connected to HomeOpenly, a platform that does not charge referral fees. The defendant's amended counterclaims alleged, among other things, that HomeLight's receipt of referral commissions from agents violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) as the basis of a California unfair-competition claim. On March 5, 2024 the court granted HomeLight's motion to dismiss the amended counterclaims for lack of standing and injury; it wrote "Even assuming it were illegal for HomeLight to charge commissions to agents who accept its referrals" the claimed injury was implausible, so it did not decide whether the commissions violate RESPA. The court granted HomeLight's own motion to voluntarily dismiss its claims on December 2, 2024.

No RESPA ruling on HomeLight's referral fees was found in the dockets read. Other federal dockets in which HomeLight was a plaintiff against other companies were not reviewed for this page.

EDITORIAL

Is HomeLight Legitimate?

HomeLight, Inc. is licensed by the California Department of Real Estate as a corporate broker (license 01900940, status LICENSED on 2026-09-30, with the comment "NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS"), and its affiliate HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. lists NMLS ID 1529229 and state mortgage licenses on HomeLight's own licensing page. BBB lists HomeLight Inc as accredited with an A+ rating as displayed on 2026-10-03 (BBB's complaint and review counts are in the complaint record section and are not this site's rating). No government enforcement action was identified in the sources checked (see the licenses and regulator records section), while two putative class actions over calls and texts and a September 29, 2026 filing that PacerMonitor classifies as an employment civil-rights case are open, as described in the litigation section. This page assigns HomeLight no rating or verdict of its own; the terms, fees and records above are reported so readers can weigh them and check their own paperwork.

PUBLIC RECORD

Court & Public Records

CaseAuthorityDatesTypeOutcomeSource
Hopkins v. HomeLight, Inc.
Docket No. 3:26-cv-05017-BHS
U.S. District Court, W.D. Wash.FiledFiled — no final outcome recorded

A putative class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act alleging unsolicited calls and texts to a number on the national Do Not Call registry and failure to honor opt-out requests or maintain internal do-not-call procedures. On July 13, 2026 the court denied HomeLight's motion to dismiss the first amended complaint, finding the complaint plausibly alleged both counts; that ruling is not a finding that the allegations are true. HomeLight answered the amended complaint on August 10, 2026, and the docket continues through entry 42 (September 28, 2026).

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Johnson v. HomeLight, Inc.
Docket No. 2:25-cv-04981-DWL
U.S. District Court, D. Ariz.FiledFiled — no final outcome recorded

A putative class action brought by Gina Johnson "on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated." Plaintiff's April 24, 2026 filing refers to text-message claims under 47 U.S.C. 227(c)(5) and to HomeLight's motion to dismiss the first amended complaint (filed March 20, 2026). On March 6, 2026 co-plaintiff Jessica McCammon was dismissed as a party (PacerMonitor docket text) and the amended complaint was filed by Johnson alone. No order on the motion appears in CourtListener's or PacerMonitor's listing through entry 29 (September 29, 2026), where later entries are notices of supplemental authority; most filings are not in the free archive.

Source
Nijjar v. HomeLight Settlement, LLC, et al.
Docket No. 4:26-cv-01398
U.S. District Court, E.D. Tex.FiledFiled — no final outcome recorded

Filed September 29, 2026 against HomeLight Settlement, LLC and HomeLight, Inc. PacerMonitor classifies it as nature of suit 442 Civil Rights - Employment (cause 42:1983); the complaint text is not publicly available, so the claims were not read, and the filing is not shown to be a consumer case. Summonses issued September 29, 2026.

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McLaughlin v. HomeLight, Inc.
Docket No. 2:21-cv-05379-MCS-KES
U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal.
DismissedDismissed

A real estate agent alleged under the Lanham Act that HomeLight's lists of "top" agents in Agoura Hills were false advertising because agents share commission with HomeLight. On September 17, 2021 the court granted HomeLight's motion to dismiss the first amended complaint without leave to amend and with prejudice, holding the plaintiff had not pleaded statutory standing (proximate cause) and that HomeLight's identification of "top" agents was nonactionable puffery; judgment was entered the same day.

Source
HomeLight, Inc. v. Shkipin et al.
Docket No. 5:22-cv-03119-PCP
U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal.
DismissedDismissed

A suit HomeLight filed against Dmitry Shkipin and others (docket nature of suit: Trademark); the court's orders describe the defendant as a competitor connected to HomeOpenly, a platform that does not charge referral fees. The defendant's amended counterclaims included an unfair-competition claim premised on an alleged RESPA violation in HomeLight's receipt of commissions from agents. On March 5, 2024 the court granted HomeLight's motion to dismiss the amended counterclaims for lack of standing and injury, without deciding whether the commissions violate RESPA. On December 2, 2024 the court granted HomeLight's own motion for voluntary dismissal of its claims. This case was brought by HomeLight and is a dispute with a competitor, not a consumer case.

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Company Relationships

  • Affiliated with: HomeLight Home Loans, Inc.
  • Formerly known as: AgentBrain Corporation
EDITORIAL

Frequently Asked Questions

Does HomeLight cost money for sellers and buyers?

HomeLight's client FAQ says "Finding an agent through HomeLight is 100% free for buyers and sellers, and there's no commitment required," and that HomeLight earns a "customary broker-to-broker referral fee" paid by the agent when the transaction completes. Its Terms say the fee "may be a percentage of the commission received by the professionals involved" and that "There is no charge to you." The referral-fee percentage is not stated on those pages. Simple Sale fees, Buy Before You Sell program fees and any agent commission are separate; see the practical-steps section.

How do I stop calls and texts after submitting a HomeLight request?

HomeLight's Privacy Policy (Last Modified June 2026) says to call 866-627-3398 to be removed from the promotional calling list, reply STOP to a promotional text (or "quit," "end," "revoke," "cancel," "unsubscribe"), use the unsubscribe link in emails, or revoke consent by any reasonable method including emailing [email protected]; it says requests are honored "within a reasonable time, not to exceed ten (10) business days." If you signed up for more than one type of message and do not say which to stop, the policy says it treats the request as revoking consent for all of its telemarketing calls and texts. Agents and investors who received your details are separate businesses and each must be told to stop. Unwanted calls or texts can also be reported to the FCC and FTC.

What does a HomeLight Simple Sale cash offer cost, and is it binding?

HomeLight's Simple Sale page says seeing the offer is free and carries no obligation, "Fees are disclosed in writing before you sign, and they come out of proceeds at closing," and "Nothing is binding until you sign." It gives "48 hours" in its headline and "Within 24 hours" in step 2 for receiving the offer, says closing can be "as few as 10 days or as many as 60," and says a seller will "Often" net less than listing on the open market. No fee amount is published on the page; read the written offer for the buyer's name and every deduction.

What does HomeLight Buy Before You Sell cost, and who is the lender?

HomeLight's consumer page (read October 3, 2026) says there is "no fee to get pre-qualified and no interest on the Equity Unlock" and that "The program fee is disclosed up front and paid when your current home sells"; the note under its example calculator says the example "Includes a 2.4% BBYS program fee, an estimated $700 inspection fee and $250 notary/recording fee. Actual results and fees vary." Its Agent Help Center pricing page says the fee "is based on the final sale price of the current home," with minimums below $375,000, an additional $1,500 fee if HomeLight Closing Services is not used on one of the transactions, and a $1,500 fee per transaction in Chicago (Cook, Kane, Peoria and Will counties), subject to change. Two HomeLight-hosted lender pages state the fee as 2.4% of the final sale price of the current home (or "of the departing residence's price") and describe HomeLight stepping in to buy a home not sold within 120 days of the new-home purchase; the consumer page read on October 3 does not contain that 120-day sentence. The loan comes from HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. (NMLS 1529229); homelighthomeloans.com says it "powers HomeLight's Buy Before You Sell program."

What licenses does HomeLight hold?

The California Department of Real Estate lists HomeLight, Inc. as a LICENSED corporation, license ID 01900940 (expiring 06/29/27), with "NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS" on 2026-09-30. HomeLight's licensing page lists HomeLight Home Loans, Inc., NMLS ID 1529229, with state mortgage license entries for 43 states and the District of Columbia; these are the company's own statements and were not checked against NMLS Consumer Access.

Is HomeLight being sued?

CourtListener and PacerMonitor dockets checked on 2026-10-03 show Hopkins v. HomeLight (W.D. Wash., filed January 8, 2026), a putative class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in which the court denied HomeLight's motion to dismiss on July 13, 2026; Johnson v. HomeLight (D. Ariz., filed December 30, 2025), a putative class action in which one plaintiff was dismissed on March 6, 2026 and HomeLight's motion to dismiss is briefed with no ruling shown; and Nijjar v. HomeLight Settlement, LLC (E.D. Tex., filed September 29, 2026), which PacerMonitor lists against HomeLight Settlement, LLC and HomeLight, Inc. as nature of suit 442 Civil Rights - Employment, with the complaint text not public. A 2021 Lanham Act case, McLaughlin v. HomeLight, was dismissed with prejudice, and HomeLight itself brought a 2022 trademark suit against a competitor (Shkipin) that it later voluntarily dismissed. These are allegations unless a court has ruled otherwise.

Do HomeLight's Terms of Service require arbitration?

HomeLight's Terms of Service say disputes will be resolved "through binding and final arbitration instead of through court proceedings," administered by JAMS before a single arbitrator, with a jury-trial waiver and a bar on class or representative claims, except that either side may bring "qualifying claims in small claims court" and seek action from government agencies. The Terms cap HomeLight's liability at $100 and choose California law with San Francisco courts for claims outside arbitration. The Terms text read contains no arbitration opt-out procedure. The Terms page shows no last-updated date.

How do I contact HomeLight or file a complaint?

HomeLight's Agent Help Center says for buying or selling to call (888) 688-0350, and links a contact form at help.homelight.com/contact-us; it also says HomeLight's main form of communication for account questions is email. Privacy requests go to 866-627-3398 or HomeLight's online form, with appeals to [email protected]. For mortgage or HELOC issues, the CFPB (consumerfinance.gov/complaint) and your state mortgage regulator accept complaints; BBB complaints are filed at bbb.org.

What is HomeLight Home Loans and how is it related to HomeLight?

The homelight.com footer lists HomeLight Home Loans, Inc., NMLS ID# 1529229, at 1375 N. Scottsdale Rd. #125, Scottsdale; homelighthomeloans.com says it "powers HomeLight's Buy Before You Sell program"; and HomeLight's HELOC page states "HELOC are issued by HomeLight Home Loans, Inc. and cards are issued by Continental Bank." HomeLight's consumer Buy Before You Sell page read on September 30, 2026 called it "our sister company"; that wording was not in the page text read on October 3, 2026. It is a separate legal entity; its ownership was not stated on the pages read.