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Compass may want to drag Redfin into its legal battle involving Zillow’s listing access standards, but the Rocket Companies-owned firm is not having it. On Tuesday, Redfin filed its own letter addressed to Judge Jeannette Vargas of the U.S. District Court in New York City calling Compass’s motion to compel Redfin to produce documents “untimely and improperly filed.”
According to Redfin, Compass is “ignoring its prior agreements,” by requesting that Redfin produce “privileged and irrelevant documents.”
On Friday, Compass filed a letter with Judge Vargas asking her to force Redfin to turn over draft copies of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s blog post announcing Redfin’s listing access standards policy, as well as documents related to Redfin’s rental listing syndication deal with Zillow.
In the letter, Redfin pushed back against Compass’s request for drafts of Kelman’s April 14 blog post, calling the drafts “privileged,” and claiming that the request is just a “fishing expedition.”
“Far from evidencing any collusion, it instead confirms Mr. Kelman’s long-held, public position on Clear Cooperation (CCP),” the letter states.
Redfin also argues that while it has not enacted its listing standards policy, it has not changed its stance on CCP or altered the policy. Due to this, the firm feels that “there is no support for an assertion that the draft blog posts would reveal Redfin’s alleged participation in a conspiracy to exclude Compass’s listings for the simple reason that Redfin has never adopted such a policy.”
Compass has also demanded access to an unreacted version of Zillow and Redfin’s rental listing syndication deal. In its letter, Redfin claims that Compass already agreed to forgo seeing this document during its earlier meet-and-confers with Redfin. Additionally, Redfin claims that the document has no bearing on this lawsuit and that producing it would unnecessarily burden Redfin, who is not a party to the lawsuit.
These document requests are all part of an expedited discovery process related to Compass’s motion for a preliminary injunction, in which it asks the court to block Zillow from enforcing its own listing access standards policy. A hearing on that motion is set to begin on Nov. 18, 2025.
