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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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Many people who visit Zillow aren’t even buying houses — they’re just looking, sharing and daydreaming about their ideal home. The site has such a powerful hold on the market that one real estate company filed a lawsuit this week calling Zillow a monopoly.
Elahe Izadi talks with reporter Rachel Kurzius about how we got here and what this house-hunting obsession says about us.
Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff and Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sean Carter.
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0:00.0 | Okay, Rachel, grab your phone. |
0:04.7 | I'm about to send you a text message. |
0:07.0 | Ooh. |
0:08.0 | I wanted to send you this because I have this really weird habit that until recently I thought was just a thing that I do and the people in my life do, |
0:19.0 | when I'm like going to different places and different cities even |
0:22.8 | if I see a for sale sign on a house I will Google the address of this house and I will look it up |
0:32.2 | and this is a house I go to do physical therapy and I drive by this very opulent house. |
0:41.9 | It is five bedrooms, six baths, over 6,000 square feet. |
0:51.3 | Also relevant information, we've got a two-car garage. This is a newly constructed home located in a, quote, tranquil neighborhood. |
1:00.8 | In Washington, D.C., where things can be very expensive. So, dear listener, this house is way beyond my means and many, many others. |
1:04.0 | It's $3.995 million. |
1:07.0 | Yeah, that's a $4 million home right there. |
1:10.3 | Rachel Curzius writes about homes for the post. |
1:16.3 | And lately, she's been reporting on a website a lot of people, me included, are obsessed with right now. |
1:17.8 | Zillow. |
1:18.7 | So I sent her a link to a listing that I've been keeping an eye on for months. |
1:23.2 | What I love about this listing is if you look at the very second option under the photo, what is it? |
1:30.2 | It's a video tour. |
1:32.4 | Oh, yeah. |
1:33.1 | I mean, and these are so common. |
1:34.6 | I can't tell you how many of these video tours I have watched in my spare moments. |
1:40.8 | Yeah. |
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