OK, maybe "Listing Syndication War" is a little too sensationalistic. Maybe. There's no question though that news about real estate listing syndication is now coming at a fast and furious pace. Back in November, Edina Realty lobbed the first round when they announced they were pulling their listings from Trulia and Realtor.com Then a couple of weeks ago it was Jim Abbott and ARG Abbott Realty Group in San Diego doing the same, and adding Zillow into the mix. Yesterday Metrolist, … [Read more...]
ARG Abbott Realty Group Pulls Listings from Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com
The real estate interwebs blew up last night when the announcement from San Diego based real estate brokerage Abbott Realty Group (ARG) came down that they were going to stop syndicating their company's listings to national listing aggregator sites Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com. Sounds exactly like what Edina Realty announced in November 2011. (Though curiously, Edina never mentioned backing out of Zillow). Is there an “anti-syndication movement” afoot in the real estate vertical? Maybe. … [Read more...]
Edina Realty pulling listings from Trulia and Realtor.com?
Craig Kamman, an agent with Edina Realty in Wayzata, MN reported Tuesday on his blog that Edina Realty is going to stop sending their real estate listings to 3rd party sites like Trulia and Realtor.com. From what I am assuming is an internal message to Edina agents (as it's nowhere to be found in Edina's on-line press room or anywhere else online that I can find) that Craig posted comes this: Edina Realty will no longer provide a broker feed of our listing inventory to Trulia.com starting … [Read more...]
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