How to Remove Photos of Your Home from Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin & Homes.com
Your house sold, but the listing photos are still online. Here’s how to hide them on Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin and Homes.com, what your listing agent can do at the source, and what to expect from Google.
By Jonathan Balog, Broker Associate, Compass · Carmel-by-the-Sea
Start at the source
Most listing photos come from the MLS feed. After closing, the listing agent can hide them there.
Claim, then hide
On Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin, you claim the home, then hide its photos. On Homes.com, you go through support.
Google catches up later
Image search can keep showing old photos for a while after the portals take them down.
Why owners take the photos down
I get this question from buyers right after closing, and from longtime owners who never thought about it until a friend texted them a Zillow link. The reasons are usually some mix of these.
Privacy
Listing photos show every room, often with a floor plan next to them. Once you live there, that’s nobody’s business.
Security
Interior shots can show the layout, the doors and windows, and what’s inside. Plenty of owners would just rather not have that public.
You’ve renovated
The old photos don’t match the house anymore. Hide them, and on Zillow and Redfin you can upload your own if you want.
You’re about to relist
If you’re selling again soon, you don’t want buyers comparing new photos with stale ones. Weighing timing too? Read The Price You Pay for Waiting.
Start at the source: the MLS
Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin and Homes.com mostly don’t take the photos of your home themselves.
When a home is listed, the listing agent uploads the photos to the local MLS (the database agents use), and the MLS sends them out to the portals and to hundreds of brokerage websites. Homes.com’s help center says it “receives a direct listing feed from the MLS,” and Redfin’s says the MLS feeds keep including archived photos “unless hidden or removed from their end.”
That’s why the best first step happens at the MLS. After closing, the listing agent can usually mark the photos hidden or private so they stop going out to public sites. The photos stay on file inside the MLS, where agents and appraisers use them for comps, but the public feed drops them. Here on the Monterey Peninsula, our MLS (MLSListings) gives listing agents a post-sale option to hide photos.
Your listing agent and the MLS control
- The photos and details while the home is for sale
- Hiding photos from the MLS feed after closing
- Fixing listing details that came from the MLS
- Photo changes on an active listing (Zillow and Redfin both send those requests back to the listing agent)
You, the owner, control
- Claiming your home on each portal
- Hiding or removing photos on the portals that offer it, once the home is claimed
- Asking a portal’s support team to take photos down
- Uploading your own photos, if you want any
- Asking Google to blur your house in Street View
Bought through me? I’ll take care of the MLS side for you. If you bought with another agent, ask them to reach out to the listing agent, since the listing side is usually the only one who can change that MLS record.
Step by step, site by site
Use a computer for this. Zillow and Redfin both say photo editing doesn’t work in their mobile apps, and Zillow says its mobile browser site won’t do it either. Don’t expect any of them to delete your home’s page entirely (Zillow and Redfin say outright that they won’t). Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin let a verified owner hide the listing photos. Homes.com doesn’t publish a self-serve option, so there you go through support.
Zillow
Claim the home, then hide or delete photos from the Edit Facts screen.
Claim your home
- Sign in to Zillow, or create a free account.
- Go to your home’s property page.
- Open the More menu and choose Claim ownership.
- Answer the ownership questions and agree to Zillow’s Terms of Use. The home then shows up under Your Home.
Hide or remove the photos
- Click your profile icon, choose Your Home, then click your home.
- In Owner View, click Edit Facts.
- Remove photos one at a time (click a photo, then Remove Photo), or click Delete all photos.
- Or check Hide photos displayed on your home’s Zillow page to hide them all.
- Click Save Changes at the bottom.
Good to know
- Trulia gets its photos from Zillow, so hiding them on Zillow takes care of Trulia too.
- Once the photos are hidden, the main image switches to Google Street View, if Google has one.
- On some recently sold homes, Zillow only lets you hide all but the primary photo. On some off-market homes, Edit Facts isn’t available at all because the data comes from the last listing. If either happens, send Zillow a support request.
- For a home that’s actively for sale, Zillow sends photo changes to the listing agent.
Realtor.com
Claim the home in My Home, then remove the photos from your owner dashboard, or ask Customer Care.
Claim your home
- Go to realtor.com/myhome and enter your address.
- Click Claim your home and follow the ownership verification steps.
Remove the photos
Realtor.com says its My Home owner dashboard supports self-service removal of listing photos once you’ve bought the home. After you claim it:
- Sign in and open your My Home owner dashboard.
- Use the photo removal option there and follow the prompts.
- If you don’t see one, contact Customer Care at (800) 878-4166 or [email protected].
Good to know
- Realtor.com’s public pages don’t spell out the exact buttons, so I’ve kept these steps general. If your screen looks different, go straight to Customer Care.
- An MLS help article says Realtor.com Customer Care will remove photos once a listing is closed, expired or canceled, and asks the owner for proof such as a deed, title, recent tax bill, trust paperwork, HOA statement or public-record link. Utility bills don’t count, and you can black out sensitive details.
- The same article notes Realtor.com isn’t an IDX site, so it doesn’t have to follow the same off-market photo rules as IDX sites. Contact it directly even after the MLS photos are hidden.
Redfin
Claim the home, then use Edit Photos to hide the listing photos. Desktop only.
Claim your home
- Go to Redfin’s claim-your-home page and enter your address.
- Follow the ownership verification steps. Claimed homes show up under My homes.
Hide the photos
- Sign in at Redfin.com, hover over your name (top right) and click My homes.
- Choose the home, if you’ve claimed more than one.
- Click Edit Photos.
- Check Hide listing photos. Redfin may ask you to verify ownership first.
- Click Yes, Hide Photos, then click Save.
Good to know
- This doesn’t work in the Redfin mobile app.
- The first photo (the “hero shot”) stays up after you hide the rest. To remove it, message Redfin Customer Support.
- This only hides the photos on Redfin. Redfin itself says to contact your local MLS to make them private everywhere.
- Once the MLS photos are hidden, Redfin shows a Google Street View image instead, and you can upload your own photos if you like.
Homes.com
No self-serve photo tool that Homes.com documents. Get the photos hidden in the MLS, then ask Homes.com support.
Start with the MLS
- Ask the listing agent to hide the photos in the MLS (see the MLS section above). Homes.com says it gets its listings from a direct MLS feed, so this is the main fix.
- Give it a few days, then look up your home on Homes.com to see what’s still showing.
Then contact Homes.com
- Email [email protected] or call (800) 431-5509. You can also use the form on the Contact page, linked at the bottom of every Homes.com page.
- Include your address and the link to your home’s page on Homes.com. Say you’re the owner and you’d like the listing photos removed.
- Be ready to show you own the home if they ask.
Good to know
- Homes.com does let owners claim a home: on its Claim Your Home page, Get Started takes you to sign in or register. But that page describes value updates, local market news and nearby sales, not photo controls. If you claim yours and do see a photo option, use it. If not, go through support.
- Homes.com’s help center has no article on removing listing photos, so I haven’t listed any buttons here. As of October 2026, support is the documented route.
Selling soon? I can control how your home shows up online.
If you’re listing in the next year, we can decide up front which photos go public and plan to hide them after closing. It’s far easier to set that up at the start than to chase it down afterward.
Google, image search and Street View
Even after a portal hides your photos, Google and Bing can keep showing old copies for a while. Redfin’s help center explains that search engines need time to re-crawl the page and notice the photos are gone.
Old photos in search results
Once a photo is gone from the original page, you can ask Google to update its results with the Refresh Outdated Content tool. Search your address in Google Images first to see what’s still there.
Google: Refresh Outdated Content ↗Street View
When listing photos are hidden, many sites fall back to Google Street View. Only the owner or a tenant can ask Google to blur a house, with proof of address, and Google says the blur is permanent once applied.
Google: blur Street View imagery ↗Everyone else
Brokerage sites that run on the MLS feed generally follow the MLS once the photos are hidden. A site that copied the photos some other way has to be contacted on its own.
MLSListings: hide photos post-sale ↗Quick checklist
- Ask the listing agent to hide the photos in the MLS after closing
- Claim your home on Zillow and hide the photos (that covers Trulia)
- Claim your home on Realtor.com and remove the photos, or contact Customer Care
- Claim your home on Redfin, hide the photos, and ask support about the hero shot
- If Homes.com still shows the photos after the MLS change, contact Homes.com support
- Give it a few days, search your address in Google Images, and use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool for anything stale
- Request a Street View blur, if you want one
- Keep a short note of what you changed and when
Questions I get about this
Can I get my home taken off Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin or Homes.com completely?
Don’t count on it. Zillow and Redfin both say they don’t delete property pages, because those pages are built from public records and MLS data. What you can do is get the listing photos hidden: claim the home on Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin, and ask Homes.com support directly.
Do I need my real estate agent to do this?
Not for most of the portals. Any owner can claim the home on Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin and hide the photos there, and anyone can contact Homes.com support. But most of these photos come from the MLS, and only the listing agent can hide them at the source, so it’s worth asking them too. That one step reaches Homes.com, which says it gets its listings from a direct MLS feed, and the brokerage sites you’ll never find on your own.
Why is one photo still showing on Redfin after I hid the rest?
That’s the “hero shot.” Redfin leaves the first photo up when you choose Hide listing photos. If you want it gone too, message Redfin Customer Support and ask.
I just bought the house and I don’t see a way to remove photos. What now?
Contact each portal directly. Zillow says the Edit Facts option isn’t available for some off-market homes, and some recently sold homes can only hide all but the primary photo; in either case, submit a Zillow support request. For Realtor.com, contact Customer Care at (800) 878-4166 or [email protected] with proof that you own the home. For Redfin, submit a request to Customer Support. For Homes.com, email [email protected] or call (800) 431-5509.
Can I remove my photos on Homes.com myself?
Not that Homes.com documents. Its help center has no article on removing photos, and its Claim Your Home page talks about value updates and local market news, not photo controls. Ask the listing agent to hide the photos in the MLS first, since Homes.com gets its listings from the MLS. If they’re still up after that, contact Homes.com support at [email protected] or (800) 431-5509.
Why do old photos still show up on Google after I removed them?
Google and Bing keep copies until they re-crawl the page. Give it some time, then use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool for any result that still shows a photo that’s no longer on the original page.
Sources
- Zillow: How do I hide or remove photos of my home?
- Zillow: Remove or delete photos (Zillow and Trulia)
- Zillow: Claim or unclaim ownership
- Zillow: Photo editing requires desktop
- Zillow: Can I delete my home from your sites?
- Realtor.com: My Home (self-service photo removal)
- Realtor.com: Contact and Customer Care
- SmartMLS: Remove photos from Realtor.com
- Redfin: Removing photos on a sold home
- Redfin: Photos FAQ
- Redfin: Upload your home’s photos
- Redfin: How do I remove my home from Redfin?
- Homes.com: Contact (support email and phone)
- Homes.com: How do I contact Homes.com?
- Homes.com: Where does Homes.com get its listings?
- Homes.com: Claim your home
- Google: Refresh Outdated Content tool
- Google Maps: Blur Street View imagery
- MLSListings: How to hide photos post-sale
- SFAR MLS: Removing photos from the MLS
I’m not affiliated with Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Redfin, Homes.com or Google, and their menus and policies change. If a step doesn’t match what you see, use the help links above. These steps hide photos; they don’t guarantee every copy disappears from the internet.
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