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What Microsoft’s Bing portal controversy says about MLS value

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Real estate data is incredibly important to a variety of industries, and there’s a cost to produce it, Sam DeBord writes. Those who do so should be properly compensated. Continue reading →

Microsoft removes portal data from Bing Real Estate after outcry

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Four days after Bing Real Estate came under fire for its alleged co-opting of listing data from Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com, Microsoft has removed for-sale listing data from its site. Continue reading →

Microsoft’s mysterious real estate portal sparks data safety concerns

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Industry watchers are sounding the alarm about Microsoft’s Bing Real Estate, a site that for several months has been reposting listings from Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin without explanation. Continue reading →

Here’s how CoStar can beat Zillow and win the real estate portal wars

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CoStar is already borrowing a page from other big insurgent companies including Nike, Apple and Pepsi. But whether it can surpass Zillow may depend on how much it spends, analysts told Intel. Continue reading →

Zillow, Redfin go head-to-head with new ChatGPT plugins

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The plugins will allow users to employ conversational language to ask the chatbot details about specific listings and the kinds of homes they seek to fine-tune their search results. Continue reading →

The chatbot revolution has begun. Here’s what agents need to know

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Tools such as ChatGPT and Bard are brand new but already revolutionizing online content and the real estate industry. Scroll through Inman’s latest handbook to get the lowdown. Continue reading →

Zillow accused of ‘wiretapping’ homebuyers’ visits to its website

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The suit, one of several filed this month against the real estate search portal on similar grounds, argues that Zillow is breaking the law by recording the way consumers interact with its websites. Continue reading →

Compass lets go of Chief Technology Officer Joseph Sirosh

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Sirosh spent more than four years at the brokerage. He most recently was in the news for selling hundreds of thousands of Compass shares. Continue reading →

Mortgage lenders use tech and local ties to grow national footprints

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Atlanta-based direct mortgage lender Silverton Mortgage, a Snapdocs client, has added new branches in the Carolinas, Arkansas and Missouri over the past year. Continue reading →

Is Microsoft gearing up to compete with Zillow for rental market share?

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Company is hiring staffers in China for a “revolutionary” real estate venture focused on improving the search for long-term rentals. Continue reading →