Zillow Offers

Some Realtors Experience Sticker Shock as Zillow Begins Charging For Rental Listings

By Joanna England / January 13, 2021 /

For John Angell, it was the last straw. The Dallas-based agent with Paragon Realtors took to Facebook to air his grievance with Zillow, the company that uses MLS data to populate its site with for-sale and for-lease listings. The company, which started its own brokerage — Zillow Homes — last September, also announced at that…

Knock’s Home Swap Program Expands to Texas Markets

By Marlin Weso / September 28, 2020 /

The stars have to align just right when you’re buying a home while selling your old one. It was tough enough when dealing with both ends of the housing transaction. It’s even tougher when taking into account the competitive housing market and concerns about social distancing. Knock, a New York-based home sales company, recognized the…

Zillow Launched a Brokerage, But Agents Say Buyers and Sellers Should Beware

By Joanna England / September 23, 2020 /

Zillow made it clear this morning when it announced its new service for Zillow Offers clients, Zillow Homes, that it’s on its way toward having a hand in every part of the real estate transaction. The program essentially creates a brokerage within Zillow — an area of the real estate business the company long said…

Important: Opendoor Just Bought its Own Discount brokerage

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2018 /

Opendoor, Open Listings, open sesame to way more disruption in the real estate world. You know about the fast growing, fast-expanding home selling and buying company Opendoor. Launched in the Bay area in 2014, with Dallas as its second focus group city, OpenDoor has raised $645 million in equity financing, has $1.75 billion in debt,…