‘It’s a scam’: Zillow accused of using ‘fake climate risk data’ to tank home values – Online Realtor’s ‘Climate Risk Assessment’ Attracts Suspicion – Flagging homes as ‘high risk’ that have never flooded & are not in FEMA zones
By Admin
July 18, 2025
8:27 am
https://restoration-news.com/online-realtor-climate-risk-assessment-attracts-suspicionBy Kevin Mooney
Coordinated attack on property value and landownership?
Property owners of large estates looking to sell should make routine check ins with their listings to make sure climate activists have not sabotaged the real value of what they are offering. Otherwise, they could be victimized by misinformation that discourages potential buyers. That’s one of the key lessons a real estate broker learned after her clients advised her of an unsettling bit of info that appeared to be inserted on the sly and then later removed.
Here is their story.
Just a half hour or so after Stephanie Cross sent an email to an online real estate marketplace company to dispute the “climate risk assessment” the company attached to a multimillion-dollar property in North Carolina, Cross received an inquiry she views as “suspicious” and worthy of further investigation.
The intrigue began sometime back in February of this year when the online realtor known as Zillow, headquartered in Seattle, began including climate risk data with its listing for the property in question. Cross, who is a licensed real estate broker herself in North Carolina and Tennessee, told Restoration News in an interview that it was her clients who first took notice of the climate data linked with their property on Zillow’s site. Cross is attempting to sell the $6.2 million estate on behalf of an elderly couple who would like to relocate to Georgia so they can be closer to their children.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/18/its-a-scam-zillow-accused-of-using-fake-climate-risk-data-to-tank-home-values-online-realtors-climate-risk-assessment-attracts-suspicion-flagging-homes-as-high-risk-tha/
