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BREAKING NEWS: Whistleblower says Zillow's STEALING your listing data!

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Real Estate Training & Coaching School

Business, Careers

4.7669 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

An anonymous whistleblower has sent attorneys for Move, Inc a letter containing detailed accusations of data-theft by Zillow, which include "scraping" listing-data from the Realtor.com website, developing "data-quality" software that works by scraping the Realtor.com site even further, and then the outright theft of MLS contact, listing and other databases from Move, Inc. The letter also claims that incoming CEO Errol Samuelson worked while under court injuction - and provides a level of detail presumed to be  Andrea Bramblia from Inman News broke this story on April 10th in "Whistleblower alleges Zillow is stealing listing data from agent websites", and today we're discussing what this means for the industry, for Zillow, and for your real estate business! Schedule A Free Coaching CallVisit Tim & Julie Harris OnlineListen on iTunesListen on Stitcher

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0:00.0

Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, America's number one trusted resource for realtors who demand authentic real-time coaching.

0:22.0

Starring, award-winning real estate coaches Tim and Julie Harris.

0:26.1

Get ready for unfiltered, full-strength honesty about what is truly working

0:30.3

to get you into action and make you money in this new real estate boom.

0:35.4

Now to our hosts, Tim and Julie Harris.

0:41.3

Welcome back to Real Estate Coaching Radio, and we are your host, Tim and Julie Harris,

0:45.3

and we are broadcasting from an absolutely gorgeous Austin, Texas. So there was a story that

0:50.4

boiled up over the weekend, starting last Friday, that Inman News broke. And we're going to be

0:56.3

talking about that on today's radio show. But more specifically, we're going to talk about

1:00.8

why more than ever what's happening with Zillow and Trulia, if you're still stuck in the

1:06.0

buying buyer-leads paradigm, is absolutely something you need to be questioning because what you're going

1:11.5

to learn today is definitely going to change your mindset about continuing to do business with

1:15.9

the companies or maybe it won't. It will be your decision based on what we're about to share

1:20.0

with you. So, Julie, why don't you go ahead and read the brief introduction to today's show and

1:24.0

then we're going to get to the specifics?

1:26.1

All right, perfect. So again, we're referring to what was broken over the weekend in Men's, and here's what

1:30.6

happened.

1:31.4

An anonymous whistleblower has sent attorneys for Move Inc.

1:35.2

A letter containing detailed accusations of data theft by Zillow, which include what's

1:41.9

called scraping or scraping of listing data from the Realtor.com website,

1:47.0

developing data quality software that works by scraping the Realtor.com site even further

1:54.0

and then the outright theft of MLS contacts, listings, and other databases from Move Inc., essentially from Realtor.com.

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