Zillow fires back against Compass claims
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Zillow fires back against Compass claims
Zillow has responded to Compass’s motion for a preliminary injunction, arguing that Compass has failed to provide evidence of irreparable harm. The response cites testimony from Compass executives and market data that contradict the brokerage’s claims of negative impact from Zillow’s listing access standards policy. AI Summary
The letter is Zillow’s latest in the antitrust lawsuit filed by Compass in mid-June, in which the Robert Reffkin-helmed firm claims that Zillow’s listing access standards break Federal antitrust laws. Announced in early April, Zillow’s listing access standards policy bans listings from its site if they have been publicly advertised for more than one business day before being input into the MLS and made available for display on IDX and VOW websites.
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Zillow fires back against Compass claims
Zillow is not buying Compass’s claims that its listing standards policy has or ever will cause “irreparable harm” to the nation’s top brokerage by sales volume.
On Monday, the listing portal giant filed two letters in response to Compass’s motion for a preliminary injunction and its motion for expedited discovery.
The responses come just a week after the Robert Reffkin-helmed brokerage filed its suit against Zillow, claiming that the portal has colluded with Redfin and eXp Realty on its listing standards policy. Compass claims Zillow enacted the policy to maintain an alleged monopoly over home searches.
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Zillow claims that because Compass waited nearly three months to file the suit and is proposing a three-month schedule for resolving the dispute, no emergency exists.
Additionally, Zillow argues that by waiting this long, Compass cannot claim that it faces “irreparable harm.” Zillow’s policy went into full effect on Monday and will remain in effect unless the court grants Compass’s preliminary injunction.
“Compass’s claimed irreparable injury and need for urgent relief ring hollow when Compass waited nearly three months to bring suit and is willing to wait three more months before any hearing on its motion,” the letter states.
According to Zillow, the injuries that Compass allege “are either compensable through damages (if Compass prevails) or are too speculative to support a preliminary injunction.” The letter also argues that Compass fails to articulate why discovery is needed to avoid “irreparable harm” or decide its motion for preliminary injunction.
“Nowhere does the Discovery Motion articulate why any evidence is necessary to decide the PI Motion or avoid irreparable harm,” the letter states. “This is not a situation, for example, where evidence may be lost.”
In addition to these claims, Zillow also argues that “Compass has failed to “plausibly allege antitrust standing, a proper relevant market, or market power, among other deficiencies.”
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