How to Contact a Listing Agent Directly on Zillow

In this video we will show you how to contact a listing agent directly on https://www.zillow.com/.

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Now you've probably stumbled upon this video because you've recently figured out that it's quite frankly very hard to contact the listing agent on Zillow. If you use the contact agent button on a typical listing on Zillow, the person who actually responds is not the listing agent.

So, in this video again, we will show you how to figure out who the listing agent is for a property you see on Zillow, and furthermore how to actually contact the listing agent.

Now, the first thing we'll direct your attention to, is in the search results which are on the right-hand side below each listing. It actually says the name of the listing agent brokerage.

So, let's go ahead and click on this listing. The first thing to mention as I’m sure you're already aware is that using the contact agent button will not connect you directly with the listing agent if you use the contact agent button. You will be connected with a buyer's agent who is participating in the Zillow Premier Agent program.

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Now, the Zillow Premier Agent program instantly connects agents with buyers and basically allows these buyer's agents to market their services to prospective home purchasers. Zillow is a publicly traded company which has a market cap as of today of over 12 billion dollars so there's certainly not a charity and what we're showing you today is essentially the very heart and soul of Zillow, and how it actually makes money. Zillow generated $1.046 billion in revenue from its Premier Agent program in 2020.

Now, let's try the “take a tour” button. Here, it very clearly says, they will connect you with a buyer's agent who is obviously not the listing agent. So, we're over two. So, let's scroll down further on the listing and see if we can find any other clues.

Listing agents are generally prohibited from putting their contact information in the description. I wonder why, so we're not going to be able to actually figure out the contact details through this part of the listing. So, if we scroll down further, we're actually going to make a bit of progress here. Now, we see the following listed by John Salt, Keller Williams Eagle Realty. So, this area is the primary way of figuring out who the actual listing agent is for a property on Zillow.

What do you do here, well, at this point you actually need to literally google this person until you find a way to contact them, be it their phone number, email, or if there's a contact box on this person's website.

So, the next thing to look at is source. This will always tell you where the listing is coming from. In this case, it's coming from the Miami Association of Realtors and there's almost always an MLS number now. One way to potentially contact the listing agent, is to search for this MLS number on Google. Many of these are realtor groups also have a direct consumer facing website which has contact listing agent box available for you to use, so, in other words you could literally google this MLS number. If you see any website result from Miami Association of Realtors, it might be a website that you can use to find the listing contact, the listing agent directly.

So, in conclusion, on Zillow, on pretty much every listing on their platform, any listing by a traditional agent on Zillow, there is literally no way as of today for a consumer to directly contact the listing agent in one click in any sort of call to action box. Prompt on a listing on Zillow will route that person to a Zillow premier agent, somebody who has paid money to advertise on Zillow.

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