The NAR News Filter — Smacks Down Redfin

A recent New York Times article, “Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell” mentions Redfin, Zillow, Terabitz and Trulia.

Mostly Redfin. You can’t miss the big photo of smiling Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO.

Glenn opines frequently on the Redfin blog. Like, love or hate the guy, you can’t argue that he doesn’t have a presence in real estate. Perhaps a significant one in many aspects.

Why then when the NAR summarizes the NYT article and presents it to their readership do they strip out all the references to Glenn and Redfin?

I have no issue with the NAR regurgitating a news story. But if they are going to barf up someone else’s work, seems like they could skip the editorializing and/or personal opinion and give us all of the story.

To blatantly remove all of the references to one of the key subjects in the story seems…. I dunno… wrong on some level. It begs the question, “Why”?

Hat tip to Blue Collar Agents, via Greg Swann.