# Professor Robert Seamans comments on The New York Times' decision to stop charging New York City real estate brokers to post exclusive listings

1 Faculty News September 11, 2017 ![The Real Deal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035629.gif?itok=IgTvXuBh)>

Excerpt from [The Real Deal](https://therealdeal.com/2017/09/11/with-rebny-deal-nyt-stakes-claim-on-resi-listings-space/) -- "'They’ve been losing eyeballs,' said [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans), a professor at New York University, who in 2015 found that Craigslist cost newspapers $5 billion in classified ad revenue between 2000 and 2007."

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