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As I described in my other comment, Redfin is a completely different beast than Zillow and Trulia, because they are an actual real estate brokerage. That gives
by zippergz 12y ago
As I described in my other comment, Redfin is a completely different beast than Zillow and Trulia, because they are an actual real estate brokerage. That gives them direct MLS access rather than having to scrape as the other sites do. [I have no affiliation either, but I used Redfin to find my current house and I think they're great.]
- Domenic_S 12y agoOk, I guess, but they're different from a normal brokerage in that you can access their database without signing an exclusivity agreement, meeting anyone in person, or talking to anyone at all. They're as publicly accessible as Zillow or Trulia, and from a user experience standpoint they're more like Zillow than they are like your local Coldwell Banker. I get what you're saying about data accessibility, it seems like Zillow just found a way to hack the restrictions (by becoming a broker).