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For-sale homes are disappearing off the internet as real estate firms fight over limited listings.
Urban Living
Moving to Chicago? Or maybe parts of Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin? Last week, thousands of Zillow listings for those areas disappeared. The database cut off 43,000 entries, claiming that Zillow violated its agreement in regard to a new trend of some listings not being advertised on the platform but instead kept from the internet for weeks before users can hear about or see them.
Zillow subscribes to the thinking (as I do) that if a seller wants to have the best marketing and the most eyes on a property, they should go “full MLS” so that millions see the listing. Compass, Inc.
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