(NewsNation) — Thousands of Chicago-area home listings on Zillow and Trulia have disappeared as the company faces a dispute with Midwest Real Estate Data.
MRED cut off access to its database shared with Zillow Group, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The two sides have been battling over private listings, in which homes are marketed to select buyers and brokers before being made public.
Zillow recently filed an antitrust lawsuit as part of the dispute. MRED said in a news release the conflict centers on nine listings that brokers initially marketed privately before posting on Zillow. The company argued Zillow is attempting to impose its own rules on listings it says are “lawfully marketed under MRED policies and at the discretion of sellers and their brokers.”
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In response, Zillow said on its website that MRED rewrote its data licensing agreement in October “specifically to block Zillow’s transparency standards.” Zillow added those rules were not in place when it originally signed the agreement and accused MRED of changing them after pressure from Compass CEO to remove Zillow’s feeds…