'If I was a large MLS, I would be having war room discussions about what our model is going forward in a worst case scenario,' one industry veteran told Inman
Compass Coming Soon listings will receive priority display on Redfin.com, with buyer inquiries sent to Compass listing agents, according to details of the new partnership
Inman has exclusively learned that 6 weeks after the companies merged into a mega-brokerage, layoffs began taking place last week and continued this week
CEO Andy Florance said Homes.com has the winning short- and long-term strategy after revealing that the company kept adding paid members in 2025
A report released on Tuesday by the Consumer Policy Center suggested lawsuits will follow if brokerages, real estate portals and regulators don’t step in and add transparency first
The 1.47M member organization seeks to show consumers that 'agents who are Realtors do more than open doors' with its slate of new ads
The company has vowed to slash over 35% of its spending on Homes.com after years of attempting to build a 4th major real estate listings search portal
3 homebuyers, who are also military veterans, allege the mortgage companies' referral programs led to higher cost loans
Based in part on comments from Zillow executives this week, the housing analyst casts a bearish outlook for the housing market in 2026
The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year. It would make Pennymac the second-largest mortgage servicer in the country and one the largest subservicers, the company said
Zillow is increasingly at the center of the lives of homebuyers, homesellers and real estate professionals. Here’s what changed in 2025, and how it paid off for the company
Compass filed suit last summer and asked the court to stop Zillow from enforcing its Listing Access Standards. In the ruling, the judge said Compass 'has not shown a likelihood of success'
The parent company of the Homes.com real estate portal said the 'investment phase' is over, and that selling or abandoning the site would be premature
As the industry heads for a debate over the future of the multiple listing system, ‘we're not going to get involved,’ Kevin Brown said on stage at Inman Connect New York
During an appearance at Inman Connect New York, NAR CEO called for keeping the organization at the center of the industry while not competing with brokerages and members
Compass CEO kept his sights on NAR, MLSs, which he says are too restrictive, and Zillow in his call for widespread reform of the existing status quo in real estate
Court documents show how Zillow saw potential threats to its growth in the technology Compass was building for both agents and consumers
The company said the terminations were performance-based and part of its typical annual review process. Zillow has open roles for approximately the same number of employees
A day after a prominent hedge fund investor launched a hostile takeover bid of CoStar’s board over concerns about the real estate portal, CoStar doubled down on its Homes.com strategy
A major New York hedge fund has called on CoStar to divest or shut down its residential real estate business, which has focused on Homes.com
