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Zillow Group and Redfin rocked the industry with 2 bans on listings that don't follow Clear Cooperation Policy guidelines. Here's what we know about the policies and how they'll play out
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The form warns homesellers that selling a property privately without listing it on the MLS may have negative financial impacts but recognizes sellers hold the 'final choice' in how to market
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Zillow's move to prohibit certain listings from its portal 'signals a major tech platform is willing to challenge the old brokerage cartel,' according to Consumer Advocates in American Real Estate
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Consumer Policy Center fellows Stephen Brobeck and Wendy Gilch praised Zillow's private listing ban while calling on the Department of Justice to limit the spread of private listing networks
CEO Glenn Kelman on Monday also called on MLSs to create a 'coming-soon' designation for listings that would conceal Days on Market and historical pricing data from consumers
Opinion
CoStar founder and CEO Andy Florance takes Zillow to task for its new listings policy, calling it anti-consumer and anti-agent
NextHome threw its support behind Zillow's private-listing policy Friday, the second brokerage to officially back the plan, as rival portals and critics of NAR's Clear Cooperation Policy sounded off
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Opinion
Darryl Davis outlines the way Zillow's actions and policies are designed for its own benefit, not for the benefit of sellers or real estate professionals