Selling Your Home? Let REALTORS® Compete For Your Business!
Buying A Home? Let REALTORS® Compete For Your Business!
What's Your Home Worth? Let REALTORS® Help Determine The Price!
Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a database that allows real estate agents/brokers representing sellers to post and view property information. The MLS provides a way for Real Estate Professionals to share information about properties with real estate brokers who represent potential buyers or wish to cooperate with a seller's agent/broker in finding a buyer for the property. The MLS combines the listings of all available properties that are represented by brokers who are both members of that MLS system.
The purpose of the MLS is to enable the efficient distribution of property information so that, when real estate agents are introduced to a potential home buyer, he/she may search the MLS system and retrieve information about all homes for sale in a given geographical area or price range, whether under a listing contract by that agent's brokerage or by all participating brokers.
The MLS network is governed by private entities, and the rules are set by those entities with no state or federal oversight, beyond any individual state rules regarding real estate. Individual MLS systems set their own rules for membership, access, and sharing of information, but are subject to nationwide rules laid down by NAR or CREA.
Selling Your Home? Let REALTORS® Compete For Your Business!
Buying A Home? Let REALTORS® Compete For Your Business!
What's Your Home Worth? Let REALTORS® Help Determine The Price!
An MLS may be owned and operated by a real estate company, a county or regional real estate Board of REALTORS or Association of REALTORS, or by a trade association.