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Removal guide

How to remove yourself from homes.com

Site
homes.com
Category
other (real-estate portal; exposes owner/property data)
Difficulty
Hard (portal availability issues; property records often re-sourced from MLS/county data and may be refused as "publicly available")
Time to processnot published (statutory 45 days CCPA)

What they publish

Property records: addresses, sale/price history, photos, and in places owner-name/mortgage-linked details; also account/lead data. DeleteMe/Optery treat it as custom-removal-only.

Owner / network: CoStar Group (also Apartments.com, LoopNet, BizBuySell, Matterport, OnTheMarket)

Removing yourself, step by step

0 of 5 done
  1. Go to https://privacy.costar.com/, choose Homes.com as the brand.
  2. Select delete / do-not-sell request; fill name, email, address, phone matching your records; submit (one request type per submission).
  3. For sold-home photos: also ask the listing agent to remove them at the MLS source.
  4. If the portal is down, retry later; there is no published direct privacy email for Homes.com .

Tap a step to tick it off. Progress is saved in this browser only.

How they confirm it

identity matching against data CoStar holds; inconsistent info can void the request

If they ignore you

CCPA complaint to CA AG/CPPA against CoStar Group (registered CA broker context); reference their Homes.com brand.

Data brokers re-list. Check again in about 60 days.

Re-listing risk for this site: High — listing/county data re-syncs; photo/record removal requests may need agent/MLS-side action too.

Common questions

How do I remove myself from homes.com?

Use homes.com's opt-out page (privacy.costar.com). The guide above lists 5 steps, and this page writes the removal request for you to send from your own email.

Will my information come back on homes.com?

High — listing/county data re-syncs; photo/record removal requests may need agent/MLS-side action too. Check again in about 60 days.