Zillow is Taking Over the World!
Popularized in a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit, the act of scrolling through listings like a dating app on a Friday night — Zillow surfing, to the uninitiated — has continued despite the end of stay-at-home orders. The act of escapism that is visually rifling through a stranger’s home and imagining how your furniture would…
Zillow filed suit Friday against Compass, alleging that the high-tech brokerage poached three employees from the company in a bid to abscond with intellectual property. Two suits were filed — one in federal court and one in Washington state — claiming that the three employees had signed contracts with 12-month non-compete and non-disclosure clauses. The…
Here is news coming from the east coast that the State of New York is considering — mind you, just chatting about — regulating online real estate ads placed by agents. The focus is on third party ads such as Zillow’s “Premiere Agent” whereby an agent buys an ad on another agent’s listing. That is,…
Are Zestimates an invasion of privacy? Back in May, Zillow was sued by several flippers in Chicago who were annoyed that Zestimates were undervaluing their flips (likely because the system hadn’t caught up) and bringing in bottom feeders using Zestimates as holy writ on appraised value and therefore purchase price. In my May coverage, I…
This statement just came over from Zillow. The real estate search giant says it won’t pursue legal action against Kate Wagner and the McMansion Hell blog, but Wagner agrees not to use Zillow photos moving forward. “It was never our intent for McMansion Hell to shut down” they say. Well, when a billion dollar company…
