Zillow Targeted by Second MLS for Listings Feed Shut-off

Realtracs, the MLS in Nashville, has reportedly told its broker members that it is preparing to shut off Zillow’s access to all listings starting in June, setting a May 31 deadline for Zillow to comply with the MLS's listing rules.

Realtracs serves circa 18,000 members in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia. The company wrote in an email that Zillow’s enforcement of its rule against publicly marketed private listings violates its rules.

Inman reported that two separate sources shared an email sent to Realtracs brokers, which said:

As of today, May 27, Zillow is the only platform not in compliance with the agreement terms, and we do not expect that to change, given Zillow’s own rule that prevents sellers from choosing how their properties are marketed and has resulted in dozens of banned Realtracs listings.

Realtracs CMO Katie St Francis confirmed the story, telling Inman: “If Zillow complies with Realtracs display rules by the May 31st deadline (and stops banning listings), they will retain access to the Realtracs feed.”

A Zillow statement read:

Nashville’s MLS has threatened to cut Nashville-area sellers off from Zillow, the most-visited real estate platform in the country, unless Zillow abandons the standards it has put in place to ensure buyers can trust what they see on our platform.

This is the same playbook already documented in federal court: a coordinated campaign, initiated by Compass CEO Robert Reffkin, to pressure MLSs across the country into pulling sellers’ listings off Zillow.

A judge on Friday just ordered the MLS in Chicago to restore our listing feed. Nashville sellers and buyers deserve access to a full, transparent market. Zillow’s listing access standards exist to protect that. We will not abandon them.

Last week, an ongoing legal dispute between Zillow and Compass moved forward when a Judge partially granted Zillow's request for a temporary restraining order against Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), forcing the MLS to restore the portal's access to roughly 43,000 Chicagoland listings while also ordering Zillow to display the nine Compass listings it had previously banned under its controversial Listing Access Standards.

Zillow reported a strong start to 2026, beating analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines for the first three months of the year.