New national home listing database is taking on Compass in the battle for control of real estate informationAGNT, HomeServices of America, Keller Williams and Real REMAX Group, four of the nation's largest brokerages, announced that they are creating a largely open and shared database (API) of listings for brokers. Open Real Estate is designed, according to its founders, to counter the increasingly fragmented residential listing market, and specifically private, off-market listings, which are favored by Compass, a brokerage behemoth.
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