{
  "id": 3069547,
  "title": "Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/zillow-and-redfin-settle-ftc-antitrust-case-over-their-rental",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-24T17:01:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/983864/zillow-redfin-ftc-settlement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled its antitrust case against Zillow and Redfin. According to The Verge, the FTC had alleged that a 2025 partnership between the two companies violated antitrust laws, with Zillow agreeing to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings.\n\nThe settlement allows Redfin to continue syndicating rental listings from Zillow without certain restrictions. However, Redfin must restart its own rental listings advertising business, which it had wound down as part of the partnership, as reported by The Verge. The FTC and states had been preparing to argue that the partnership drove up costs for landlords and decreased listing quality, according to CNBC.\n\nReuters, as cited by Techmeme, reported that Zillow had paid Redfin $100 million to stop competing in rental listings. The settlement resolves the FTC's claims that Zillow violated antitrust law.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}