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3,000 Listings Vanish as Zillow Fights Hidden Homes

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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