How to Remove Your Home Price from Zillow and Redfin
You sold your home and now its sale price is displayed on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, and half a dozen other real estate sites for anyone to see. Maybe you are concerned about privacy, maybe the Zestimate is wildly inaccurate, or maybe you simply do not want your financial information public.
Here is what you can do about it.
Why Your Home Price Is Public
First, the hard truth: in most U.S. states, real estate transactions are public records. When you buy or sell a home, the sale price is recorded with the county and becomes part of the public record. Sites like Zillow and Redfin pull from these public databases.
However, there are things you can request and some information you can control.
What You Can Request from Zillow
Claiming your home
- Go to Zillow.com and search for your property
- Click "Claim this home" (you will need a Zillow account)
- Once claimed, you can control some aspects of the listing
Requesting changes
- Contact Zillow directly to request corrections to inaccurate data (wrong square footage, bedroom count, etc.)
- Request photo removal — if your listing photos are still displayed and you want them taken down
- Report inaccurate Zestimate — while you cannot remove the Zestimate, you can submit updated home facts that may influence it
What Zillow will NOT do:
- Remove the public sale price (since it comes from public records)
- Hide your property entirely from their database
- Remove your address from search results
What You Can Request from Redfin
Redfin has a similar process:
- Go to Redfin.com and search for your property
- Look for "Is this your home?" or similar options
- Contact Redfin support to request corrections or photo removal
Redfin also sources sale prices from public records and generally will not remove them.
What You Can Request from Realtor.com
Realtor.com is operated by Move, Inc. You can:
- Contact their support team to request corrections
- Ask for removal of listing photos
- Update home details through their claiming process
Alternative Approaches to Protect Your Privacy
Since removing public record data is difficult, consider these strategies:
Non-disclosure states
Some states (including Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and others) are "non-disclosure" states where sale prices are not required to be publicly recorded. If you live in one of these states, your sale price may not appear online.
Using an LLC or trust
Purchasing property through an LLC or trust can obscure the owner's identity (though not the sale price). This is a strategy for future purchases, not retroactive.
Opting out of data brokers
Sites like Spokeo, WhitePages, and BeenVerified aggregate property data. You can opt out of each individually:
- Spokeo: spokeo.com/optout
- WhitePages: whitepages.com/suppression-requests
- BeenVerified: beenverified.com/app/optout
Requesting county recorder limitations
In some jurisdictions, you can request that the county recorder restrict access to certain personal information, especially if you can demonstrate a safety concern (domestic violence survivors, law enforcement, etc.).
What About Homes.com?
Homes.com follows similar patterns to Zillow and Redfin. Contact their support team directly for corrections or photo removal requests.
Quick Checklist
- [ ] Claim your home on Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com
- [ ] Request removal of listing photos from each site
- [ ] Correct any inaccurate property details
- [ ] Check if you are in a non-disclosure state
- [ ] Opt out of data broker sites (Spokeo, WhitePages, BeenVerified)
- [ ] Consider contacting your county recorder about access restrictions
Bottom Line
Removing your home's sale price from Zillow and Redfin is very difficult because it comes from public records. What you can control is listing photos, inaccurate details, and your information on data broker sites. For future transactions, non-disclosure states and LLC ownership provide more privacy.
If contacting multiple real estate sites and data brokers one by one sounds tedious, an AI assistant can handle the outreach for you — claiming your home on each platform, requesting photo removals, and filing opt-out requests with data brokers.
