Zillow Group has managed to persuade another 24 multiple listing services toformally agree to send their listings directly to Zillow and Trulia, as the owner of thenation’stwomost popular real estate search sitescontinuesto prepare for next month’sexpiration of the firm’s agreements with listing syndication platform ListHub.
Feeding listings through a direct feed to Zillow Groupis the “best way to ensure millions of home shoppers on Zillow and Trulia see the highest quality data,” said GregSchwartz chief revenue officer at Zillow Group, in a statement.
Annie Ives, CEO of Combined Los Angeles/Westside MLS (CLAW), one of the latest MLSs to cut a listingsdeal with Zillow Group, said in a statement that CLAW’s membershipis “incredibly pleased”withthe deal.
“It only made sense to create a direct relationship with Zillow Group as it assures our members are represented on their listings and the data on the site matches what’s in our database,” she said.
The 24MLSs announced today are:
Beaches MLS, Inc. in West Palm Beach, Florida
Central Missouri Board of Realtorsin Marshall, Montana
Central Virginia Regional MLS inRichmond, Virginia
Combined Los Angeles/Westside MLS in Los Angeles, California
Eastern Shore Association of Realtors inAccomac, Virginia
Franklin Board of Realtors in Franklin, North Carolina
Greater El Paso Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service Inc. in El Paso, Texas
Hudson County MLS in Secaucus, New Jersey
Madison County Board of Realtors in Richmond, Kentucky
Mid American Regional Information Systems Inc.inSt. Louis, Mo.
MLS of Naples, Inc. in Naples, Florida
Modoc County Listing Service in Alturas, California
Monmouth County Association of RealtorsInc.inTinton Falls, New Jersey.
Olympic Listing Service in Sequim, Washington
Pensacola Association of Realtors inPensacola, Florida
Ridgecrest Area Association of Realtorsin Ridgecrest, California
Santa Fe Association of Realtors Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Savannah Board of Realtorsin Savannah, Georgia
St. Joseph Regional Association of Realtorsin St. Joseph, Montana
Sullivan County Board of Realtors in Monticello, New York
Taos County Association of Realtorsin Taos, New Mexico
Trinity County MLS inWeaverville, California
Tucson Association of Realtors, MLS Inc. in Tucson, Arizona
Vail Board of Realtors inEdwards, Colorado
Other MLSs that have recently agreed to provide direct feeds to Zillow includeGeorgia MLSandNortheast Florida MLS.
Zillow has beensnapping up direct feeds at a break-neck pace recently, cutting deals with the 24 MLSs announced today in just the last week.
Theflurry of deals reflects Zillow’s push to build an infrastructure of listing sources that’lllimit thenumber of listings the firm’s websites will lose once ListHub — a subsidiary of realtor.com that aggregators and distributes listing data — stops supplying listings to Zillow on April 7, when ListHub’s agreementwith Zillow expires.
Zillow announced in January that it had been unable to come to terms with Move’s parent company, News Corp., over renewing the agreement.
Truliawill also lose its ListHub feed on April 7, under the terms of a settlement announced last week.
The post Zillow secures direct feeds from another 24 MLSs appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company Oregon.