Nice scoop from Andrea Brambila at Inman News.
“The whistleblower that alleged Zillow steals data from agent websites and scrapes from realtor.com is anonymous no more: he is Chris Crocker, Zillow’s now former vice president of strategic partnerships.”
News is slowly leaking out from the Zillow MLS Summit in Vegas…
Not sure of all the details but it appears Zillow has found RPR’s old playbook.
UPDATE: Now it’s official
Zillow Group to Give MLS Partners Free Public Record Data
“Organizations like multiple listing services can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to buy or license public record data, and only receive updates to this data periodically. MLSs use this data to help members create listings, and they share the data with members who use it to research their market, speed up listing input and help with prospecting and business development.
Looks like I was reading the tea leaves correctly…
My guess is that @zillow will buy a data company next. @spencerrascoff #T3Summit #LB
— Greg Robertson (@gregrobertson) April 9, 2015
