ARG Realty removes listings from Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com
As I wrote in
The Dirty Little Secret of Charleston Real Estate Search, you're being bought and sold as a LEAD when you search for homes on Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and other syndicated websites. Late last year, Edina Realty, a large Midwestern brokerage announced they were no longer going to allow their listings to be displayed on syndicated real estate search sites and just yesterday, one more shot in the listing syndication battle was fired by Jim Abbott, CEO of San Diego's ARG Realty. Using
YouTube, he explains exactly why they took this step and it's well worth your time to watch so you can understand what this is all about.