wrote on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter two private showings they got their target number.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSF real estate is a strange beast,\u201d Bigelow wrote in the responses section of her post. \u201cI think [the agent] truly believed that us hitting our magic number was basically impossible. So when that happened in the off market I think he was happy for us and excited we were getting what we hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Bigelow, CMO at artificial intelligence-backed content platform Blazel, grew uneasy, wondering if a public listing would have yielded higher offers. When the buyer backed out, the couple listed the condo on the regional MLS \u2014 a cooperative database where competing agents share information about properties for sale with each other \u2014 and Zillow.<\/p>\n
In San Francisco, compass claims a 67.5% market share. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Six days later they got an offer for $100,000 above their hoped-for price, selling the home for $2.15 million in April 2025, she confirmed to The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cA free and open market is what allowed us to get top dollar and ultimately, walk away with a much bigger win,\u201d Bigelow wrote, later saying, \u201cI would not recommend private exclusives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buyers are feeling the heat, too.<\/p>\n
A screenshot of the Compass real estate website. Compass<\/p>\n
Even Dwiggins, despite running a national real estate franchise, is struggling while searching for a primary residence with his wife in Northern California.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stalled by sparse public inventory, he was forced to leverage personal connections at Compass just to view the full gamut of all available properties \u2014 something the average house hunter could not do.<\/p>\n
Seymen Usta was disappointed that the house he found on his own wasn\u2019t available to him. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Seymen Usta, founder and CEO of Modern Chandelier in St. Petersburg, Florida, spent weeks searching for a home in December. Driving around, he finally stumbled upon a Craftsman house on a corner lot on Beach Drive with a coveted porch swing, only to be told it was a \u201cCompass Coming Soon\u201d listing that was \u201cnot officially on the market yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was calling listing agents directly, thinking I was being efficient,\u201d Usta told The Post. \u201cWhat I didn\u2019t realize was that without an agent plugged into Compass\u2019 internal network, I was invisible to their \u2018Coming Soon\u2019 inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n
It took him three weeks to find the home on Zillow, where he could only view a photograph before it was snatched up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe house sold for $40,000 less than I would\u2019ve paid,\u201d Usta said.<\/p>\n
A sign advertising a home for sale is displayed outside of a Manhattan building. Getty Images<\/p>\n
States are beginning to crack down on private listings, with legislatures in Washington, Wisconsin and Connecticut moving to ban or restrict off-market listings, and similar measures are pending in New York, Illinois and Hawaii.<\/p>\n
In New York, the Attorney General\u2019s antitrust division launched an investigation into Compass\u2019 footprint, which is still ongoing, her office confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019re supposed to be able to find a home anywhere.\u00a0 But thanks to Compass\u2019 acquisition of Anywhere Real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68,5013,75,84,83,29098,9,24,63,1491,3006,8725,12831],"class_list":["post-323965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-exclusive","tag-homeowners","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-residential-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-st-petersburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}