By Jann Swanson

Posted To: MND NewsWire

There appears to be a battle in the making between Realtor.com, which has provided on-line nationwide residential listing information since the Internet was only a novelty and upstarts Zillow and Trulia. Both companies have made their own radical changes in the last six months with Realtor.com operator Move Inc. being sold and Trulia merging into Zillow. Realtor.com’s relationship with the National Association of Realtors has always been a bit opaque. Starting in the mid-1990s Move Inc., then called RealSelect but operating principally as Homestore (remember those glass boxes with home listings scattered through airport concourses?) began managing listings of Realtors nationwide. In 1999 the company went public, raising $140 million with NAR holding a significant position and Homestore negotiated…(read more)

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