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Why would they publish names? It's really no value to home buyers to see the name associated with a listing. In some cases, there are antidiscrimination laws that limit what information should be disclosed to sellers and buyers. Name might be one of those.

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All this is available (including names of owners) from your typical government assessors web portal. Or via consolidators where the ownership, zoning, acreage, tax assessments and other data is available via an api call.

Not worth the trouble for them. They'll just end up getting thousands of takedown requests per day for information that has no value to their users.

Yeah? But what benefit is the name to buyers; and does providing the name in that context violate any fair practices? Those are the real questions here.

Only a single data point but if you tried to make assumptions about my wife based on her name (married or maiden) you would likely be very, very wrong.

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