Anaheim, CA (August 1, 2007) – In an unprecedented cooperative effort, Southern California MLS (SoCalMLS) has signed a joint data sharing agreement with nine other MLS organizations in California, forming the California MLSAlliance.
This new MLS gateway provides agents and brokers with a single source for accessing real estate information throughout much of California. Members of SoCalMLS, the nation’s second largest MLS, will now have increased exposure to more buyers for their listings, and they will be able to provide detailed listing information from a larger geographic area and increase the pool of real estate experts to whom they can refer customers.
Combining information from ten MLSs into one database, the new California MLSAlliance system was launched today and is now available to over 150,000 brokers and agents, providing access to more than 2.5 million active listings and off-market properties throughout the state. The system is developed and managed by real estate technology provider eNeighborhoods, a Dominion Enterprises company.
In California’s progressive real estate market, brokers and agents conduct business throughout the state, often across the traditional MLS boundaries. With the new MLSAlliance system, brokers and agents who belong to one of the 45 local real estate associations serviced by the ten participating MLSs can now search one system to find listings spanning across the state. The joint data access agreement between the MLSs extends a blanket offer of compensation and cooperation to all authorized participants within the California MLSAlliance.
“With an increased focus on super regionalization, statewide and national databases, the California MLSAlliance is a great demonstration of the willingness and ability of MLSs to work together for the common good,” said Russ Bergeron, CEO of Southern California MLS. “With a little work on our part, and the development efforts of our partners at eNeighborhoods, we have opened up access to millions of listings for our combined membership. That's what cooperation is all about.”
“These ten MLSs deserve praise for the decisive and progressive steps they have taken to improve access to real estate information in California”, said Andy Woolley, vice president of eNeighborhoods. “They’re not just talking about it, they’ve made it happen, delivering to their customers the largest compilation of MLS data anywhere in the world.”
In addition to SoCalMLS, the other participants include the Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, Inc. (BAREIS MLS®), Combined L.A./Westside MLS (CLAW), CRISNet Regional MLS, East Bay Regional Data (EBRD), Greater South Bay Regional MLS, iTech MLS, MetroList Services, Multi-Regional MLS (MRMLS), and San Francisco Association of REALTORS®. The MLSAlliance now unites Alameda and Contra Costa counties, San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin and on to the wine country, the Sacramento metropolitan area and Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California.
“This is just the first step in increasing the scope and breadth of coverage of MLS services throughout the state” added Bergeron, “allowing our customers to better serve the buyers and sellers who rely on real estate professionals to guide them through this most important transaction.”
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