What is a Multiple Listing Service?

The internet is rapidly becoming the world's favorite and major encyclopedia. If you need to find information about something, you're only a few mouse clicks away from being better informed. These days, entrepreneurs even harness the world wide web's capacity to deliver information to make their products more visible to buyers, as evidenced by popular online stores and businesses.

Similarly, real estate brokers use the Internet to make information about property listings more accessible, facilitating easier sales. Real estate brokers cooperate with one another to build what is called a multiple listing service, a searchable database of properties for sale in a given area. For instance, if a broker has a Vancouver property he wants to sell, he can post it on the MLS so that other members can view details about it like the asking price, square footage, and number of bedrooms. Due to the wider network of brokers or real estate professionals viewing the property, it would be faster to find suitable buyers. If a property is sold via the MLS, the listing broker will simply share part of the sales price as commission.


Multiple listing services are now an important part of the real estate industry. It is a bridge that links buyers, sellers, brokers, and properties.

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