Reasons to List on the MLS

Top Reasons to put your property on the MLS

• The More Places people see your ad, the more potential buyers you will have. 
• More eyes that view your home translates into more competitive offers
• Over 85% of homes sold in the US are thru the MLS
• Receive offers from Realtors who pre-qualify their Buyers
• You have more control

The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a local database that advertises properties for sale to licensed real estate agents. Each area has a distinct MLS that is utilized by local real estate agents and is only accessible to these agents. Once listed on your local MLS, your property may feed (depending on area) to several national real estate websites, such as Realtor.com. The exposure you receive on the MLS is tremendous! (Thousands of real estate agents through your local MLS and millions of potential buyers through the internet.)  Home sellers were previously unable to present their home in an MLS Listing unless they paid 6-7% of the home’s selling price to a Realtor. Today, home sellers, including “for sale by owner” sellers, have access to the Realtors Multiple Listing Service through our network.  Our flat fee Multiple Listing Program enables your home to be listed in the MLS  with access by nearly all Realtors who represent potential buyers looking to buy a home in your neighborhood.

86% of buyers use a Realtor to find a home, including the best kind of real estate buyer, the out-of-town corporate relocation home buyer (National Association of Realtors study). Many real estate agents use the MLS as their only tool for finding a home for their buyers, checking the MLS for new listings many times per day. As a result, an MLS Listing finds a home buyer 3 times more often than any other home selling tool.

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Discount Real Estate

Discount Flat Fee MLS For Home Sellers!

The largest question on every home sellers mind is, “Why do I have to pay so much to sell my home?”. The answer is you don’t, using a discount MLS program will give you the most of the marketing benefits without paying all of those commissions.

Listed below are the benefits of our Flat Fee MLS Listing package:

1. No more pricey Commissions to List your home on the MLS!
2. Your home will appear on the same Realtors® MLS used by all Realtors®.
3. Your home will be on Realtor.com + hundreds of the popular Real Estate Internet Websites!
4. Competitively pricing of your home since you no longer have to compensate for the commissions!
5. No more pressure, you choose the Buyers Agent Co-op Commission!
6. No more waiting around to hear the latest news! You can deal directly with the buyer or buyers agent.

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Real Estate Firms Favor Virtual Offices

Without losing a single real estate professional associate, RE/MAX Dolphin Real Estate got rid of 11 expensive offices and 40 percent of its operating expenses.Today, most of its 60 professionals work from home offices, coffee shops and even their cars, although the company does have one central office in San Mateo, Calif., and three satellite locations. But even those aren’t staffed by employees.

“This is not a geocentric business anymore. The office has become less of a focus,” says Allan Bernardi, CEO of RE/MAX Dolphin. “Technology has reduced the need to get the client into the office. You need to go where your clients are.”

Competing companies in the area are doing the same thing. The offices of Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate closed its main office in 2007, opting for a smaller, unstaffed location with a conference room and office equipment to serve 20 associates who otherwise work remotely.

“Sitting here in a brick-and-mortar office really is a thing of the past,” says Keith Miller, manager for the Contra Costa County operations. “All the paperwork and all the contracts are accessible online. [The associates] can sit down at a Starbucks and do everything. It’s totally cost-effective.”

Source: Inman News, Gilbert Mohtes-Chan (03/09/2009)