Bruce Ailion

Bruce Ailion is an associate broker with RE/MAX Town and Country in Atlanta—RE/MAX is being acquired by The Real Brokerage—and an attorney with a master's degree in real estate. He competes with Compass and other firms that advocate privately marketed listings. The views expressed are his own. He can be reached at bruce@locationlocationlocation.com.

Posts by Bruce Ailion

Op-Ed: The Code of Ethics Already Tells Us How to Judge Private Exclusives

On May 12, in federal court in Chicago, Zillow sued Compass and the listing service MRED under the Sherman Act, alleging coordinated conduct to restrict access to listing data. Four days earlier, Compass had terminated all its direct listing feeds to Zillow nationwide, cutting Zillow’s direct-feed access to more than a quarter of Chicagoland’s active…