There is no official ruling to this effect — yet — but the Department of State has shared with Zillow its intention to do this. Patricia doesn’t know Sal but she sees the listing for Sales’ house on the MLS. But alas, Zillow is a free-to-user website and like all other such websites, it needs to find money somehow if it is to pay its bills and survive. Chances are he’d have gone through Patricia, and Sal and Patricia would have split the commission anyway. And the big winner is Zillow which, through Premier Agent, is making money “renting and administering” its virtual real estate offices.

Source: Forbes May 14, 2018 19:36 UTC