FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov
RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that the North Carolina Department of Justice has won a major victory against MV Realty and its executives. The court granted NCDOJ’s motion for summary judgment, permanently barring MV Realty from enforcing key provisions of its 40-year “Homeowner Benefit Agreements,” including collecting early termination fees and recording liens or clouds on homeowners’ titles and providing finality to more than 2,000 North Carolina homeowners who fell victim to MV Realty’s predatory and illegal agreements.
“MV Realty built a business model on deception and trapped North Carolinians in decades-long contracts they had no realistic way to escape,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “This ruling holds MV Realty and its executives accountable and shuts the door on these scams in North Carolina.”
The court also found that MV Realty violated North Carolina’s Telephone Solicitation Act by making nearly 150,000 calls to numbers on the Do Not Call Registry and placing more than 340,000 robocalls to North Carolina residents.
MV Realty’s so-called “Homeowner Benefit Agreements” locked homeowners into exclusive listing contracts for 40 years in exchange for small upfront payments, often as little as $300. The agreements required homeowners to pay MV Realty a commission of 3% to 6% of the home’s value – even if they sold without using MV Realty – and deceptively claimed through filings with county deed offices to bind future heirs, creating apparent clouds on property titles through their misrepresentations.
In response to these practices, NCDOJ and legislators worked to pass the Unfair Real Estate Agreements Act, signed into law in 2023, which prohibits these types of long-term real estate service agreements in the future.
The decision can be found here.
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