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March 6, 2015

Realtor.com climbs in rankings, Trulia’s new look, Homes.com picking up steam

Zillow Group has given Trulia’s home page a subtle makeover, which could foreshadow other changes that would help differentiate the nation’s most popular real estate search portals now that they’re under the same roof. Before it was acquired by Zillow, Trulia’s home page featured an image of a couple holding hands, strolling up a…
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WFG News
March 5, 2015

Realtor.com grows New York City footprint

Realtor.com’s listing database in the Big Apple is getting thousands of new listings thanks to new agreements with five brokerages and listing syndication platform RealPlus. In addition to securing listings from Bond New York, Brown Harris Stevens, Compass, Halstead Property and NestSeekers, the portal has added new search filters and property types to help streamline…
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WFG News
February 27, 2015

Zillow’s drinking the Trulia Kool-Aid, realtor.com gets feisty

Realtor.com operator Move Inc. has been feisty out of the gate with its new rival Zillow Group Inc. Just a week after Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia closed, the two already have a new court date. On March 12 a judge will decide whether Move’s syndication platform ListHub can cut its listings feed to…
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WFG News
February 20, 2015

News Corp. delivers one-two punch to Zillow Group

With Zillow finally swallowing Trulia, the head-to-head portal bout is officially on. News Corp. — owner of realtor.com operator Move Inc. — has thrown the first punches. In a press release on Tuesday emblazoned with an all-caps headline, Move jabbed that “Zillow’s year of the merge will be realtor.com’s year…
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WFG News
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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WFG News
February 17, 2015

Zillow-Trulia merger closes

The long-anticipated merger between the two largest U.S. real estate search portals has finally closed after a six-month review by the Federal Trade Commission. Announced last July, the merger of Zillow and Trulia begins the next chapter of a fierce competitive battle with News Corp. and its Move and realtor.com…
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WFG News
January 29, 2015

Rupert Murdoch: ‘What the hell does Zillow mean?’

NEW YORK — Some real estate tech watchers have suggested that realtor.com is due for a name change, arguing that the label doesn’t deliver enough marketing oomph. But Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp., the media conglomerate that now owns realtor.com operator Move Inc., made it clear that he…
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WFG News
January 28, 2015

Consumers will decide who is king of the online real estate mountain

NEW YORK — When Zillow closes its acquisition of Trulia, which Wall Street expects to happen any day now, the megaportal will square off with realtor.com operator Move Inc., which will be determined to unseat the king of the online real estate mountain. Both Zillow and Trulia already get more visits than…
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WFG News
January 27, 2015

Realtor.com will make ‘simple product improvements’ before exploring ‘big, bold ideas’

Don’t expect radical changes to realtor.com under the management of News Corp., which acquired the site’s operator, Move Inc., in November — at least not right away. Ryan O’Hara Move’s new CEO, News Corp. veteran Ryan O’Hara, says he’s looking to start out with “simple product improvements” already in the…
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WFG News
January 27, 2015

Zillow on the brink of deal for 50,000 MLS listings

Zillow is on the brink of a deal with one of the nation’s largest multiple listing services that would help the top real estate portal weather the end of a contract with listing syndicator ListHub. The board of Rockville, Maryland-based Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS) has voted to finalize…
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