therealdeal.com – Zillow was conspicuously absent at the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR’s) midyear conference last week. And that was for a good reason: they weren’t allowed to come.

At the event, MLS CEO Cameron Paine asked the crowd why News Corp.-owned realtor.com operator Move Inc. was pitching its products to NAR members, while Zillow and homes.com were not?

The answer turned out to be that Zillow Group and its companies have been banned from NAR’s 2016 events, according to Inman. That includes its Association Executives Institute, the midyear legislative conference and the annual conference in November.