Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commissions will fail (2012)

Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by igolden on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:11PM (#18925299)

+1 - has anyone successfully proved him right/wrong since?

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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by seltzered_ on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:40PM (#18925615)

Not quite answering your question, but a16z had a recent video talking about startups trying to disrupt commissions: https://youtu.be/IRPH3K1GXj0

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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by Joakal on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:40PM (#18925611)

I'm not familiar with landscape in Australia but there's two most popular websites not owned by real estate companies: realestate.com.au and domain.com.au (both owned by competing media companies!)

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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by erklik on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:39PM (#18926230)

neither of them tries to touch commissions though.

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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by harryh on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:50PM (#18925750)

opendoor.com appears to be doing quite well

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