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January 9, 2015

Direct MLS feed puts Zillow in a ‘friendlier’ light

Zillow continues to prepare for the day when it will no longer receive listings from listing syndicator ListHub come spring. The top real estate portal said today that it had signed an agreement to get listings directly from a multiple listing service in a high-end real estate market in Massachusetts.…
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January 8, 2015

Where did Zillow’s demographic data go?

Neighborhood demographics have become a major component of the online home shopping experience, but the company that helped pioneer the practice has drastically curtailed the information it makes available to prospective homebuyers. Zillow’s “demographics” pages, which once showed statistics including “homes with kids,” “age distribution” and  “relationship status” down to the…
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January 7, 2015

Portals seek national standards for listing syndication

More and more multiple listing services are signing direct agreements with third-party listing portals such as Zillow and Trulia, but the terms of these agreements — and the technology behind them — are often less than ideal. That’s according to Clareity Consulting, a real estate consulting firm that along with…
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January 6, 2015

Rupert Murdoch playing hardball with Zillow

Realtor.com operator Move Inc. subsidiary ListHub is set to stop sending listings to rival Zillow in 90 days, potentially cutting off the flow of hundreds of thousands of listings to the most highly-trafficked real estate portal on the Web. But Zillow — which says an agreement with ListHub dating back…
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January 6, 2015

33 people who are changing the real estate industry

In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was introduced which in effect, launched the Internet. Nothing has done more to transform culture, the economy and real estate in the last three decades. In honor of the 33rd anniversary, we are recognizing 33 people who are changing or will change the real…
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January 5, 2015

Former Zillow agent outreach manager joins eXp Realty

Brad Andersohn, former national outreach manager at Zillow, has joined eXp Realty International Corp. to lead an online agent training and support platform for the cloud-based brokerage. As the director of education and industry outreach at eXp Realty, Andersohn will lead a digital training program that will be available to…
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January 5, 2015

FTC may approve Zillow-Trulia deal sooner than expected

The Federal Trade Commission is likely to sign off on Zillow’s proposed acquisition of Trulia and could grant early termination and close its review of the deal sooner than expected. The FTC “is likely to say there’s not a problem,” Notre Dame Law Professor and antitrust expert Joseph P. Bauer…
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