Compass announced that it will dismiss its antitrust lawsuit against Zillow, citing a reversal of the “Zillow Ban,” but Zillow says its anti-private listing network Listing Access Standards are still in place.
The suit was initially filed in June 2025, with a federal judge denying Compass’ motion for a preliminary injunction in February.
Compass released the following statement:
Compass announced it will dismiss its lawsuit, without prejudice, against Zillow following Zillow’s announcement yesterday that it will no longer ban homesellers and their real estate professionals for publicly marketing a listing on the Compass family of websites or Redfin.com before marketing on Zillow.
The statement refers to Zillow’s announcement that it would partner with real estate groups including Keller Williams for Zillow Preview, a pre-market, “coming soon” listing option.
Compass and Redfin previously engaged in a “Compass Coming Soon” listing agreement at the end of February. Following the news of Zillow Preview, eXp Realty also announced a partnership with Realtor.com and Homes.com on Wednesday.
Zillow’s updated policy means that Compass listings previously listed as “Coming Soon” on Compass.com or Redfin.com won’t be excluded from the Zillow platform. Zillow’s updated policy makes no mention of Compass Private Exclusive listings, though.
“Our goal has always been to give homeowners more choice to decide when, where and how to market their homes,” Robert Reffkin, chairman and CEO of Compass International Holdings, said in a press release. “We are pleased to see that other brokerages are now recognizing the strong consumer demand for more options in how they sell their homes.”
Reffkin also referred to Zillow Preview as a “reversal” of Zillow’s prior listing policies in an Instagram post.
A Zillow spokesperson provided the following statement to Agent Publishing in response to Compass’ claims:
Zillow welcomes Compass’ decision to voluntarily withdraw its meritless attack on Zillow’s pro-consumer standards after the court ruled that its complaint failed even the most basic legal hurdles and was unlikely to succeed.
The underlying issue remains: Private listing networks undermine fair access to real estate information and are not in the best interests of consumers, and they never have been. Real estate works better when information is open and accessible.
To the extent Compass continues to limit transparency and harm consumers, agents and the marketplace by hiding listings in a private network, it remains at odds with Zillow’s standards, which remain fully in effect.
Zillow added “[it] believes in broad, public exposure and access to listings; the Compass private exclusive listing network is hiding them.”
This article was updated with a new statement from Zillow on Mar. 20.