Zillow’s Chicago listings plunged as it battles MRED and Compass over private networks reshaping online home search.
Key takeaways
- **Zillow’s Chicago search results did not just get thinner; they exposed a power struggle over whether home inventory belongs in open consumer marketplaces or behind b...
- The immediate symptom was brutal for Zillow’s value proposition. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a nearly 5,000-home market on Zillow dropped to about *1,700...
- > “Chicagoland home buyers and sellers today have far worse access to the housing market than they had yesterday, because their local MLS decided one mega-brokerage’s ...
- That is the public-interest version of Zillow’s case. The competitive version is sharper: if major MLS feeds can be used to punish portals for resisting private-listin...
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