Zillow, Trulia, et al

[Bryan L.]

Just a heads-up.  There was some discussion about this a few months ago.  At that time, I made the comment that some local Realtor associations and some individual brokerage firms were ceasing to send their listing data to Zillow, Trulia, and others (for several reasons).  Now today, I received an email from my local association/mls stating that all of the listings in our local mls would no longer be automatically syndicated out.  Each and every individual broker would have to contact the syndication company and make arrangements for their listings to be syndicated out (if they wish for this to continue).  However, all of our listings will still automatically go out to Realtor.com.

[Bryan L.]

@Payam Dastmalchi - This specific change that I mentioned is specific to my local MLS only (it's local/regional and covers maybe 10 counties in TN). However, there are many other local associations and MLSes (and brokers) who are considering (or have already) stopped sending out their listing data to Zillow, Trulia, and others.

You need to be very careful relying on these other websites anyway, since their information is often inaccurate, out-dated, or both.  That's part of the reason that many brokers and MLSes are no longer sending them the data.