Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. FTC’s antitrust case against Zillow and Redfin to proceed A federal judge in Virginia denied a motion to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) major antitrust lawsuit against Zillow and Redfin, clearing the…
A federal judge in Virginia has denied a motion to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) major antitrust lawsuit against Zillow and Redfin, clearing the way for the case to advance. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga issued the ruling Wednesday night, rejecting arguments from the two companies that the FTC’s allegations didn’t meet the legal…
In a mostly technical legal briefing filed last week in Virginia federal court, rivals Zillow and Redfin jointly pushed back against a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and five states’ attorneys general that alleges the two companies violated federal antitrust law when they struck a rental “syndication” agreement late last year, arguing…
In a memorandum filed Jan. 13, defendants Zillow and Redfin are asking a federal judge to throw out the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against their $100 million partnership—and their arguments reveal potential weaknesses in how the government defined the market it’s trying to regulate. First filed Sept. 30, 2025, the FTC alleged that…