What Realtor.com Will Actually Remove — and What It Won’t
A genuine review from a verified, closed-transaction client generally stays up, even if it’s harsh. Here’s what does qualify, and what agents can control instead.
realtor.com reviews each review before it posts, primarily to catch spam, harassment, or content that doesn’t reflect a real client relationship — not to filter out negative but genuine feedback. A real client’s unflattering but honest account of working with you generally isn’t grounds for removal. The strongest basis for a dispute is a review that doesn’t trace back to a transaction the agent actually handled. Short of that, realtor.com does let agents control whether their aggregate Ratings & Reviews display on the profile at all — but that’s an all-or-nothing setting, not a way to take down a single review.
What qualifies for removal
- The review isn’t tied to a closed transaction the agent actually handled
- The content is spam, harassment, or otherwise violates realtor.com’s posting guidelines
- The review appears to have been left about the wrong agent
- The content includes something realtor.com’s pre-posting moderation is designed to catch, like abusive language
Frequently asked questions
realtor.com doesn’t publish a fully self-service dispute portal the way some review platforms do. A disputed review — especially one that doesn’t match an actual represented transaction — is typically raised through realtor.com’s agent or broker support channel rather than an online flagging tool.
Not on its own — but realtor.com does let agents control whether their aggregate Ratings & Reviews display on the profile at all, which is an all-or-nothing setting rather than per-review curation.
A genuine review from a verified client, even a critical one, generally isn’t something realtor.com will take down. A professional public response is the more reliable way to shape how it reads.