Recently Sold on Zillow disappeared

[Philip Gephardt]

Up until a couple days ago I was able to run my own CMAs on websites like Trulia, Zillow, Redfin etc, but recently in the San Antonio market, the “recently sold” tab only shows dashes rather than price sold for. I’ve seen other markets do this.

I’m assuming some law was passed.

Two questions:

1) why would someone pass such a law?

2) Do the people who pushed for this law to get passed realize that if I can’t run my own CMAs, it discourages me from investing in that market in the first place? I’m not going to ask a realtor to run 10 CMAs a day, which is what I would do for myself. Usually when I find a property, I’ll run my own analysis, and then have my realtor double-check my work. Now I can’t.