Stop calling marketing materials “data,” Darryl Davis writes. Zillow's study is a position. Compass's survey responses are a position. Your CMA, with your local comps, on this home, is data.
Greg Hague pushes back on Mischa Fisher's opinion piece, outlining the ways he sees Zillow undermining transparency and affordability.
Buying or renting is largely a lifestyle decision, the report says, with homeownership in some markets never making financial sense.
The Nashville MLS had previously threatened to cut Zillow's feed of listings in the region today. It said the parties were negotiating around how to compensate brokers for the listing data that powers Zillow.
Compass wants control. Zillow wants access. MLSs are picking sides. Agents and buyers are left holding the bag.
Anthony Lamacchia is drawing a line in the sand as the Compass-Zillow fight spills into MLSs, warning he’ll sue if it reaches his markets.
The threat comes one week after the MLS in Chicago shut off Zillow's listings feed in the nation's third largest city.
Is Compass wrong? Is Zillow off base? It doesn’t matter. They’re not the villains; old thinking and outdated assumptions are, coach Verl Workman writes.
Rental concessions have more than doubled since before the pandemic, with nearly 2 in 5 listings now offering free rent, waived fees or discounted move-in costs — handing renters their strongest negotiating position in years, according to a new Zillow analysis.
Compass' answer to the affordability crisis is to make housing feel more exclusive, more scarce, more urgent, because that's how the brokerage extracts a premium, Zillow Group Chief Economist Mischa Fisher writes.
In this episode of Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered, MRED board member and top broker Tommy Choi unpacks what’s really happening in Chicago.
From ChatGPT apps to natural language search, portals are reshaping how buyers start their shopping journeys.