Real estate brokerage Compass has reportedly sued Zillow for its ban on private home listings. The suit, filed Monday (June 23) in federal court in Manhattan, accuses Zillow of employing “anticompetitive tactics to protect its monopoly and revenues in violation of the antitrust laws,” the...
Beyond the financial cost, purchasing a home can be an extremely complex and time-consuming process. From researching listings to seeking financing and appraisals, buyers find themselves juggling and coordinating multiple different tasks before closing a deal. However, the advent of digital tools and platforms has...
Homebuying is effectively impossible. That’s according to data from PYMNTS’ February “Consumer Inflation Sentiment Report,” which is backed up by the February S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released last week. Just in time for the traditional selling season, the market experienced only a small...
Housing prices are coming down from their astronomical highs, but it may not be enough. Earlier this week, Corelogic released its monthly U.S. home price insights, analyzing the housing market through January of this year and forecasting through January 2024. Nationwide, single home prices rose...
June 12, 2020
For housing, the great snapback? As stock markets whipsaw (the Dow was off more 6 percent on Thursday), as the Federal Reserve sees mid-single-digit economic contractions and unemployment remains at double-digit percentages, the homebuying market has decided to shake it all off. Redfin reported last month that homebuying is up more than 16 percent above […]
November 14, 2018
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its...
October 01, 2025
Real estate listings platforms Redfin and Zillow said Wednesday (Oct. 1) that they disagree with allegations that their partnership violated antitrust laws. The companies’ separate statements came after five states filed an antitrust lawsuit against them Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a similar complaint. The states’ lawsuit was filed in […]
June 23, 2025
Real estate brokerage Compass has reportedly sued Zillow for its ban on private home listings. The suit, filed Monday (June 23) in federal court in Manhattan, accuses Zillow of employing...
November 09, 2022
Anticipating a housing market downturn that will stretch into next year, online real estate seller Redfin is laying off 13% of its staff and shuttering its home-flipping service RedFinNow. The...
October 06, 2022
Saying it wants to help make homeownership more affordable, technology-powered real estate company Redfin has added a new feature to the home listings on its website: information about programs that...