George T. Spyridakis, an associate broker at Exp Realty, has allowed Zillow’s StreetEasy to list the same units on the platform, claiming it was effectively public.
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The New York City broker filed a class action lawsuit against Zillow this week. The company’s StreetEasy Apartment Platform claims that while effectively hiding the rental list, it still claims it charged agents daily fees.
EXP’s associate broker George T. Spiridakis has filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle, near Giroh’s headquarters.
Spyridakis claims to have paid $7 daily for each listing, listing more than 250 properties on rent or StreetEasy, but that list is sometimes published.
“With Zillow, multiple listing realtor associations can rent the same property simultaneously on the StreetEasy platform, and charge each Realtorters $7.00 per day,” Spyridakis said in a complaint.
He claimed that only the latest rental listing agents would be displayed on the platform. “We continue to charge a Realtor’s $7.00 per day for Reach, while removing it from all Realtor’s masking or other public views in advance.”
Spyridakis claimed that the damages were over $5 million.
Neither he nor his attorney responded to requests for comment on the new case.
StreetEasy declined to comment on the lawsuit.
In New York, multiple brokers can advertise the same unit. But the StreetEasy policy appears to be trying to prevent that from happening.
“StreetEasy allows only one copy of the rental list,” the company’s listing quality policy states. “We will not approve the same unit advertised by multiple brokerages, landlords or owners.”
Spyridakis said suspicious masking “has been causing it many times.” [him] Losing business in addition to the daily advertising fees paid to Zillow. ”
The lawsuit assumes two classes proposed. The first damage class includes anyone who listed the property for sale or rental on StreetEasy but was covered while paying the fee. The second includes people previously listed, or those who are currently or intending to list or list future assets for declarative and injunctive relief.
“The plaintiff doesn’t know the exact number of members of the class (sic), but it’s much larger than it can be dealt viable through Joinder due to the size of the defendant’s business and the number of sites listings for a particular day. “That’s it,” writes Spyridakis. .
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