Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over rental listings deal
The US Federal Trade Commission and Zillow have reached a settlement resolving an antitrust case over a 2025 rental-listings partnership between Zillow and Redfin. The deal lets Redfin keep syndicating Zillow's rental listings but requires it to relaunch its own advertising business.
The Federal Trade Commission and Zillow have reached a settlement that closes the antitrust case over a 2025 "partnership" agreement between Zillow and Redfin covering rental listings. The FTC had argued the arrangement broke antitrust law: Zillow would pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would shut down its own advertising contracts and agree not to compete with Zillow in multifamily rental listings.
What the settlement changes
Under the proposed settlement, Redfin can keep syndicating rental listings from Zillow, but without the anticompetitive restrictions contained in the original agreement. At the same time, Redfin is required to rebuild its own rental-listings advertising business, which it had scaled back as part of the partnership.
Daniel Guarnera, director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, said the settlement delivers better, faster and more certain outcomes for renters and property management companies than the agency would likely have achieved by taking the case to trial. State attorneys general from Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Virginia and Washington also signed on to the proposed deal.
The resolution follows a pattern of recent settlements reached by the Trump administration in other high-profile antitrust cases, including the disputes involving Live Nation and Ticketmaster, and separately against Realpage.
