{"id":63287,"date":"2026-06-17T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housesmarketplace.com\/costar-amicus-brief-denied-in-zillow-mred-compass-case\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:00:15","slug":"costar-amicus-brief-denied-in-zillow-mred-compass-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housesmarketplace.com\/ru\/costar-amicus-brief-denied-in-zillow-mred-compass-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CoStar amicus brief denied in Zillow MRED Compass case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a ruling on Tuesday, Illinois-based federal judge John Tharp denied CoStar\u2019s motion to file an amicus curiae brief<\/a>. No reason for the judge\u2019s denial was given.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sought to call attention to Zillow\u2019s obvious hypocrisy: Zillow is asking the Court to guarantee its access to MLS listing data while simultaneously creating its own pre-market listing channel and seeking to restrict others,\u201d Gene Boxer, CoStar\u2019s general counsel, said in a statement. \u201cThat contradiction matters to the entire residential real estate industry. Zillow cannot claim to be defending openness and transparency while building a system that advantages Zillow, withholds inventory from competing platforms and undermines the very principles it invokes in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boxer said regardless of if the court considered the brief, CoStar believes it is \u201cimportant for brokers, agents, MLSs, consumers and regulators to understand what Zillow is really asking for: open access for itself, but different rules for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cZillow has already had plenty of time to refute the facts in our brief, but it hasn\u2019t, because it can\u2019t,\u201d Boxer added. \u201cWe expect that the other parties to the case will continue to highlight our arguments as additional reasons why Zillow should lose. We are pleased to stand with the industry to expose Zillow\u2019s wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an emailed statement a Zillow spokesperson wrote that \u201cCoStar and\u00a0Compass are trying to muddy the waters by conflating pre-marketing and private marketing, hoping people won\u2019t notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, it didn\u2019t work. Zillow Preview listings are available for any shopper to see for free. That\u2019s long been our standard for any listing, and what our transparency policy is based on,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n