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True. And now?  Realtor.com is redeeming itself after sitting on the sidelines of the digital real estate wars. With growing profits and booming traffic, the wounded soldier is back on the battlefield. News Corp. is publicly touting the turn-around. Previously, its Australian real estate portal REA was the crown jewel of its digital real estate strategy, as tarnished realtor.com lost ground to Zillow. Not anymore. Realtor.com on the mend “Realtor has contributed more to our profit growth, than … REA in Australia,” bragged Thomson on the earnings call. In the last year, under new manage...

Errol Samuelson and Michael Lane addressed the concerns over the acquisition at Inman Connect Now.

“I swallowed hard when I heard the news,” one agent told us.  For agents, the deal raises concerns about who owns their data, as well as what Zillow has planned for software that many people consider part of their daily toolbox.  At a time when Zillow’s power has never felt more ascendant, that’s just the start of the questions that we’ll have for Zillow’s Errol Samuelson and ShowingTime president Mike Lane, both of whom will take the stage at Inman Connect Now on Thursday.  They’ll face no-holds-barred questions from our own Clelia Peters as well as respond to some of the in...

In the wake of Zillow’s acquisition of ShowingTime, real estate agents who used the platform were concerned about data. The fear expressed was that data from their clients, data regarding showings, is now sitting in the hands of a company it sometimes considers a competitor.  David Klein | Photo credit: Klein Moynihan Turco LLP Zillow was clear that the deal shouldn’t change the way ShowingTime handles data and the company’s existing privacy policy would remain in place. David Klein, the managing partner at Klein Moynihan Turco LLP, a legal firm that focuses on consumer data privacy is...

A day after Zillow announced its purchase of ShowingTime, Homesnap responded that it was putting "the pedal to the metal" on its own show scheduling tool.