Zillow’s House-Flipping Rivals Defend Tech-Powered Homebuying

  • CEOs of Opendoor and Offerpad weigh in on rival’s stumble
  • Redfin’s Kelman cautions about ‘potentially toxic assets’

The Zillow app on a mobile phone.

Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Zillow Group Inc.’s pullback from its home-flipping operation is reverberating across the real estate industry, leaving its competitors to defend using technology-powered algorithms to buy houses.

The issue is not with the business model, they say, but the execution.