How to Remove Your House From Zillow (and What You Can Control)
Zillow builds a page for most homes from public records, so you usually can't delete yours. You can claim it, correct the facts and remove old listing photos. Here's how.
By Editorial Team
7 min read
If you want to remove your house from Zillow, the honest answer is that you usually can’t delete the page, because Zillow builds it from public property records that it’s allowed to publish. What you can do as the owner is claim the home, which gives you control over much of what appears: you can typically remove or hide old listing photos, correct home facts, and take down any listing you posted yourself. For the owner’s name and sale history, the source is the county record, not Zillow.
Most people asking “can I remove my house from Zillow” are really worried about something specific, such as interior photos from a past sale, a wrong detail, or strangers seeing their home’s value. This guide covers each of those and what you can realistically change. Zillow’s menus change over time, so we describe the steps generally and point you to its help center for the current wording.
Why Zillow has a page for your house
Zillow and similar sites create a page for almost every home using data from public records: county assessor and recorder files, tax records and past sales. When a home is listed for sale or rent, listing data and photos usually come from the local multiple listing service (MLS) through the listing agent, or from the owner or landlord directly.
So your home’s Zillow page is a mix of three things:
- Public record data: address, lot size, year built, tax history and sale history.
- Listing data: photos, descriptions and details from when the home was last listed.
- Zillow’s own estimates: such as the Zestimate, its automated value estimate.
Each has a different owner and a different removal route. Public record data can’t be deleted by you or by Zillow on request in most cases. Listing photos and descriptions are where you have the most control.
What you can and can’t change
| What’s on the page | Can you change it? | How |
|---|---|---|
| The home’s page itself | Usually no | It’s based on public records. Claiming the home gives you some control instead. |
| Photos from a past sale or rental | Usually yes, as the verified owner | Claim the home, then remove or hide the photos, or contact Zillow support. |
| Home facts (bedrooms, square footage, upgrades) | Usually yes | Edit them after claiming. Some fields may need to match public records. |
| A listing you posted (for sale by owner or rental) | Yes | Take it off the market or delete it from your account. |
| An active listing posted by your agent | Through your agent | Ask the agent to update or withdraw it in the MLS. |
| Sale and tax history | No | This comes from county records. Errors are corrected at the county. |
| Zestimate | Indirectly | Correcting home facts can change it. You generally can’t turn it off. |
How to claim your home on Zillow
Claiming your home tells Zillow you’re the owner and unlocks owner tools. The steps below are general, since the exact buttons move around.
- Sign in to a Zillow account. Create one if you don’t have one, ideally with an email you use for property matters.
- Search for your address and open your home’s page.
- Look for the owner option, usually labeled something like “Claim this home” or found under an owner or “Owner view” section.
- Verify ownership. Zillow typically asks questions based on public records or other checks to confirm you’re the owner.
- Review the owner dashboard once verified. This is where you manage photos, facts and other details.
If verification fails, for example because the home is held in a trust or LLC or was bought recently, check Zillow’s help center for its alternative verification process or contact support.
How to remove old listing photos
This is the most common reason people want their house off Zillow. When you buy a home, the seller’s listing photos, often showing every room, can stay on the page for years. Those photos can reveal the layout, where valuables might be kept, and security features, so removing them is a sensible privacy step.
- Claim your home first, as above.
- Open the photo management area in your owner view.
- Remove or hide the photos you don’t want shown. Owners can generally delete photos from past listings or replace them with their own, such as one exterior shot.
- If there’s no option for a particular photo, contact Zillow support through its help center and explain that you are the verified owner and want past listing photos removed.
Remember that the same photos may appear on other real estate sites. Redfin, Realtor.com, Homes.com and others often show photos from the same past listing, and each has its own owner or support process. Zillow’s changes don’t carry over to them automatically.
Removing a listing you or your agent posted
If you listed your home for sale by owner or posted a rental yourself, you can mark it off the market or delete it from your account. The home’s basic page will stay, but the listing details and your contact information won’t.
If an agent listed it, the listing usually flows from the MLS. Ask your agent to withdraw or cancel it there, and to request that the photos be removed once the sale closes if you’re concerned about privacy. Renters who see their unit’s interior photos online can ask the landlord or property manager to take them down.
Fixing wrong information
- Home facts: after claiming, edit bedroom counts, square footage, renovations and similar details. Keep them accurate. Inflated facts can create problems later in a sale or appraisal.
- Owner name, sale price or tax data: these come from public records. If they’re wrong at the source, contact your county assessor or recorder. Zillow updates when the underlying records do.
- Zestimate: you usually can’t remove it, but accurate home facts help it reflect your home better.
A worked example
This is an illustrative scenario, not a real client.
Ingrid buys a townhouse and finds the seller’s listing still on Zillow, with photos of every room, the home office and the alarm panel by the door. She doesn’t want strangers studying her layout.
- Day one: she signs in, claims the home and completes the ownership check.
- Same day: she removes the interior photos and leaves a single exterior shot. She corrects the bathroom count, which the old listing had wrong.
- Day two: she finds the same photos on two other real estate sites, claims the home on one, and contacts support on the other.
- Week two: she requests a Street View blur for the front of the house and adds her address to Google’s “Results about you” to catch people-search listings.
Her home still has a Zillow page with its address and sale history, because those are public records. But the photos that worried her are gone.
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Get a free auditCommon mistakes
- Expecting the whole page to disappear. Zillow rarely removes homes built from public records. Aim for control, not deletion.
- Fixing Zillow and forgetting the other sites. Past listing photos are usually syndicated to several portals.
- Editing public record data on Zillow instead of at the county. If the source is wrong, the error comes back.
- Posting new interior photos. If privacy is the goal, one exterior photo, or none, is enough.
- Ignoring people-search sites. Many show the owner’s name with the address, which Zillow’s home page typically doesn’t. See our guide on how to remove your address from the internet.
If you’re a real estate agent
Agents often get this question from buyers after closing. Helping clients remove listing photos once a sale is done is a simple way to build trust. If you’re managing your own Zillow presence as an agent, our guide to Zillow reviews for agents and our page on real estate reputation management cover the reputation side.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove my house from Zillow completely?
Usually not. Zillow builds home pages from public records, which it’s allowed to publish, so it doesn’t generally delete them on request. As the owner, you can claim the home, remove old listing photos, correct facts and take down listings you posted.
Does Zillow show the owner's name?
Zillow’s home pages don’t typically highlight the owner’s name, but ownership is part of the public property record, and other sites, including people-search sites, may publish it alongside your address. Opting out of those sites does more for your privacy than changes on Zillow.
Can I turn off the Zestimate for my home?
Generally, no. Owners can update home facts, which can affect the estimate, but the Zestimate itself stays on the page. If it’s far off, accurate facts and recent upgrades are the best way to improve it.
How do I remove my rental's photos from Zillow?
If you posted the rental, remove the listing or photos from your account. If you’re a tenant, ask your landlord or property manager, who controls the listing. Once a unit is rented, most landlords will take the listing down.
