{"id":707,"date":"2006-11-28T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T05:21:11","slug":"ask-not-for-whom-the-mls-toils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/707\/ask-not-for-whom-the-mls-toils\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask not for whom the MLS toils . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it toils for brokers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghhomesdaily.com\/2006\/11\/28\/no-idx-for-pittsburgh-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Homes Daily has news of a new IDX policy for agents: None<\/a>. Mere agents will not be able to syndicate or even frame data from&#160;the&#160;West Penn Multi-List&#8217;s&#160;Internet Data Exchange (IDX). Only the main site of each brokerage will be able to feature the feed, and agents will not even be allowed to frame that on their own web sites.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if a prospective buyer wants to search the MLS, he or she will have to go to the main web site of a brokerage. <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateundressed.com\/2006\/11\/28\/pittsburgh-just-moved-back-into-the-dark-ages-or-is-that-forward-into-dark-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">As Larry Cragun points out at RealEstateUndressed<\/a>, any leads captured by the broker will probably not be shared with agents for free.<\/p>\n<p>Nice&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it toils for brokers. Pittsburgh Homes Daily has news of a new IDX policy for agents: None. Mere agents will not be able to syndicate or even frame data from&#160;the&#160;West Penn Multi-List&#8217;s&#160;Internet Data Exchange (IDX). Only the main site of each brokerage will be able to feature the feed, and agents will not even be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2801,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2801\/zillowcom-makes-its-first-mls-wide-feed-agreement-and-in-the-process-disintermediates-its-first-idx-cartel\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com makes its first MLS-wide feed agreement and, in the process, disintermediates its first IDX cartel","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the PR, which the vendor cheerleaders will have reported:*Leading real estate Web site Zillow.com and MLS Property Information Network today announced a partnership to feed listings from the New England area MLS to Zillow.com on a daily basis. 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