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March 4, 2015

Zillow secures direct feeds from 25 MLSs in February

In the month of February, 25 multiple listing services signed up to send listings in direct feeds to Zillow, the listing portal said in an announcement. The disclosure sheds more light on the headway that the listing portal has made in securing direct feeds from MLSs ahead of the April 7 expiration date of its agreement…
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WFG News
February 25, 2015

Behind-the-scenes look at the Zillow-Trulia-News Corp. listings battle

Real estate is an industry full of people who cooperate and compete with each other at all levels, sometimes uneasily. With potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue at stake, this is especially clear among the now top two rivals for consumer traffic in the real estate space:…
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WFG News
February 24, 2015

Judge keeps listings flowing to Trulia — for now

Trulia Inc., the nation’s second-most popular real estate listing site, has been granted a temporary restraining order to keep receiving listings from rival-owned ListHub. ListHub — which is owned by realtor.com operator Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary — announced Thursday that it had terminated its syndication agreement with Trulia…
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WFG News
February 23, 2015

Analyst: Trulia could lose 40 percent of listings

Trulia, the nation’s second most popular real estate search portal, could lose 40 percent of its listings if Zillow Group is not able to get a court to step in, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Lloyd Walmsley. Zillow announced Friday that it had filed for a temporary restraining order in…
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WFG News
February 23, 2015

ListHub stops syndication to Trulia and Zillow … so what?

Most Realtors would agree that maximum exposure to the marketplace results in maximum price. ListHub’s decision to pull the plug on the data it aggregates from 560 multiple listing services (MLSs) and syndicates to Trulia would seem to be a damaging decision to both agents and consumers — but is it really? If you were…
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WFG News
February 20, 2015

Zillow Group seeks restraining order to keep listings flowing to Trulia

Zillow Group filed for a temporary restraining order today in a bid to keep listings flowing to Trulia from listing syndicator ListHub. ListHub — which is owned by realtor.com operator Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary — announced yesterday that it had terminated its syndication agreement with Trulia, the nation’s…
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WFG News
February 19, 2015

ListHub parts ways with Trulia

Move Inc.-owned listing syndicator ListHub has terminated its syndication agreement with Trulia in the wake of the latter’s acquisition by Move rival Zillow. ListHub-sourced listings will no longer appear on Trulia.com as of Feb. 26. “This action is a result of the completion of Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia this week,…
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WFG News
February 19, 2015

Zillow scores direct feed from big Texas MLS

Now that Zillow has closed its acquisition of its biggest rival, Trulia, another deadline is looming: the expiration of its agreement with listing syndicator ListHub. That April 7 deadline has spurred Zillow and MLSs alike to scurry to ink direct feed deals before ListHub’s listing pipeline to the top portal…
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WFG News
February 18, 2015

San Diego MLS taking listing syndication into its own hands

A multiple listing service serving more than 18,000 members in San Diego County is taking listing syndication into its own hands with technology from Bridge Interactive Group. The MLS, Sandicor, had explored taking over syndication last year. But when it learned that an agreement between Zillow and ListHub was up for renewal in…
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February 18, 2015

Your cheat sheet to the Zillow-Trulia deal

We awaken today to a world where Trulia is owned by the newly named Zillow Group. Brokers and agents need to make quick sense of what the closing Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia means for the immediate and ongoing future. To help you toward that end, here is a cheat sheet…
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