CoStar CEO At Connect: ‘The Residential Agent Is Zillow’s Competitor’

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CoStar Group is not looking to compete with Zillow.

Let CoStar Group CEO Andy Florance repeat that: “We are not Zillow’s competitor,” Florence told Brad Inman during a virtual session of Inman Connect.

But that doesn’t mean Florance doesn’t have a lot of thoughts on Zillow’s business — and its shift to IDX and plans to use its own agents in its iBuyer transaction — and how he wants his company’s forthcoming residential search platform to be different.

Watch the entire blockbuster interview above.