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In February, Zillow completed the acquisition of its principal rival, Trulia, for $2.5 billion in stock.
How dominant are they? As of mid-2014, Zillow and Trulia accounted for just over three-quarters of the traffic to online real estate sites, according to the digital analytics firm comScore. Realtor.com had most of the remaining quarter.
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The wild card is News Corp. It acquired the Move portfolio of online real estate services last year, including a company called ListHub.
ListHub is a syndicator. It arranges with local real estate listing services to aggregate their data and port it to other services.
All the companies are battling each other in court.
Move wants to cut off Trulia’s access to ListHub, according to Inman, a real estate news service. Move says Zillow stole trade secrets to create a rival service.
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