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Goodbye MLS.ca, Hello Realtor.ca
Realtor.ca has finally launched and soon the much loathed MLS.ca will finally be put out of its misery. The recent shut down of the popular Housing123 caused quite a stir and reignited the debate over not just the fact that there is are lack of a quality website for viewing properties in this country, but also the Real Estate Industry's handling of the information itself.
The real estate industry in Canada is in some ways unique in that it has managed to avoid to this point what just about every other knowledge-based industry has faced since the invention of the Internet: the mass dissemination of its most precious resource-information. Specifically, they have consistently shut down any attempt that has been made to open up the central MLS database that contains all the information about properties sold and those currently for sale.
One of the main reasons why these 'rogue' sites keep popping up is that MLS.ca is pretty terrible and has been basically unchanged over the last several years. MLS.ca completely missed the whole web 2.0 party and many entrepreneurs and programmer types couldn't take it any longer. But with each new site that emerged, CREA was right behind them to shut them down.
The new Realtor.ca is a great improvement over MLS.ca simply because it has added mapping functionality that has been around on other sites for about 5 years or so. The ability to click and drag the map, as well as switch between map and aerial view are nice touches. Being able to change search criteria in real time without have to click the 'back' button is great too.
Once you see a listing you like and you click on it for more information, several short comings of the site quickly reveal themselves. Photo size and quality are the same as the previous version of MLS.ca, and you have to click the 'back' button to re-enter the map and select a different property. Also, information on a given property is still limited to the MLS.ca fields of the past. Many data fields that Realtors have access to, consumers still do not.
Consumers still have a long way to go before there is a clean, transparent system for accessing real estate listings in Canada. It might never fully be an open system, but we are embarrassingly far away from what is currently available in the U.S. on sites like Trulia.com, Zillow.com, and the like.
What do you think of the new Realtor.ca? Does it do what you want it to do? And what (realistic) suggestions would you make to improve it further?
Image from Realtor.ca.
Andrew la Fleur is a Realtor and a contributor to blogTO.
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If you read their blog you will find out that they received a notice to cease and desist our operations from MLS/CREA Legal Counsel on June 15.
Now, not even a month later Realtor.ca is releasing a website of their own which is doing exactly what housing123 was doing just fine.
Fortunately, we did sell for the price we wanted in the time frame we wanted, but if our listing had been available to the general public we could've been on the good end of an all out bidding war.
And when we tried to get them to fix the mistake, they refused to listen to us because we weren't licensed realtors.
That's all I have to say on the matter. Hopefully someone ingenious will find a great way to put them out of business for good.
Looks like most of the stuff was just cut and paste from original. Event bad fonts are still there. This was clearly done in house and it shows. Very poor work.
real estate is a joke online. I could probably get rich fixing the crap they throw up.
hmmmmmmmm...
Nice try, too bad it's useless.
Also, before I was able to see 50 properties per page, now I have to search 10 properties at a time.
Finally, my computer at home is slow so everytime I move the map I have to wait a lot of time until new data is populated!
It would've made sense to keep mls.ca features and ADD an OPTIONAL map search, not just replace it.
1. You can't narrow the search, who would think this up?!?!?!....
2. When you look at property information, you can't just go back to the other listings. You get kicked out to the beginning to enter your search criteria again!!!
3. When you want to go to the next page of listings, it just sits there loading, i once left my house while it was loading the next page and came back 1/2 hour later and it still said loading...HAHAHAHAHAHA
4. When i try to change the setting from ascending to descending prices, the page just keeps trying to do it but never does!
This site makes me so frustrated that i don't want to look on it anymore. It is one of the most user UN-FRIENDLY sites i have ever used!. My real estate agent and i worked great together finding options for me, now i guess i will just have to rely on her and i won't be able to be as involved! UGHHHH
I will be talking to my realtor in the morning if this is not fixed ASAP I will be pulling my listing.
Such incredible incompetence and ignorance is hard to find elsewehere... COMPLETE Change of the interface that would not allow for transitioning time is just horseass.
I would agree with all the comments that consider old MLS better then the new Realtor.
What they were thinking? IF they think at all..
I would highly recommend hiring an Human Interface Expert, to help them DESIGN the interface that works for the users, not for their in house nerds..
I'll be looking for another site
This one really needs a lot of tweaking before it is put up. Should have had a control group for pre- testing
THIS ONE SUCKS SO BAD!!!
The above article discusses how the industry has shut down past attempts to allow MORE access to information and now, what do you know, there is LESS/more difficult access to information.
I thought I was doing something wrong until i saw all the other mac owners complaining.
i WILL NEVER USE THIS SITE AGAIN
A VERY DISAPPOINT CUSTOMER
The old site, with the aid of google maps worked PERFECTLY and was very quick on low-speed internet users.
I wrote an email to TREB complaining that the new site does not allow us to access information by sector, C1, C2, E4, etc. as the old site did. Instead you can only look by an extremely narrow parameter (street) or by city (Toronto, North York). Well what if the area you want to look at overlaps a small part of Toronto, North York and East York? Simply, just sift through a thousand listings to finally pin-point the ones you might be interested in....
Now why I ask would the Real Estate board do away with the old parameter look up system (C-3, C-4, etc.). Their response to me was that it was an old antiquated system that has no relevance to current search criteria, an asked me to look at the slow useless map, with it's coin size pictures.
It would seem that the real estate board has decided to ditch this classification system? But no, the next day in the Toronto Star, the old C-2, E-4 system was used in the business section to describe year over year prices. My agent still says that nothing has changed on his end for classifying properties.
Why the change---force you to get all your relevant information from an agent, at a time when the real estate market in Canada is about to implode. Why give us more information so we can track housing inventory in Toronto, which is up 70% in C-3, C-4, C-10, C-11, C-12, year over year as of Sep 30, 2008. Why would TREB want us to be able to track such useful information that may impact our bid price. Better for them have us think that all is ok if we only compare statistics to 2006, and soon to be 2005, and then 2004, and, well, you get the idea.
If this site was supposed to be an 'honest' improvement, there certainly should be a change in command at the helm. Anyone that is in charge of an organization that does gauge public reation to a new site before full implementation is asleep at the wheel!
find info that I wanted quickly on old site - this has
taken forever and still did not find what I was looking for!
Should be easy to do since the programmers were able to come up with something as complicated as this!!
I have just accessed the new site and you can email them your comments. I would suggest that we all send them our complaints directly. Not sure if they would in fact read them all, but at least they will be made aware of our dislike of the new site.
THIS SITE WILL MAKE MARKE VERY DOWN
MARGARET
Out with the new, bring back the old!
---To restrict the use of MLS information by users without agents, and to force you to use a realtor---
By not releasing district information and to make it more cumbersome to find a property in the area you are looking at, it forces you to use the services of a realtor.
Where did I get this information?? Directly from my AGENT, friend!!! He said that this information was circulated, and comments taken for revamping the site with the sole purpose of making the use of an agent a MUST, rather than an option.
I say, contact an agent or more, have him take the time to send you the specific houses in your preferred area and buy without him!!! How to meet them, simply go to a few open houses and they will clamoring all over you to send you listings. They never take you off their email listings, as they are desperate for a sale these days. Fight 'fire' with 'fire'!!!
Bring back the old mls.ca site!!! With the recent pressures in the real estate market - just wait realators the US financial crisis will hit you!!! The old site was so user friendly and allowed people to search for real estate they wouldn't even have thougth of before. Now you can't even be creative and look for new place.
What a bunch of doornobs.UGH!Terrible site.
Please bring back the OLD MLS.ca
What is MLS's loss by removing this option for puplic users? I still need to speak to a RE agent before buying. That is how I found my house. Saved the RE agent more time too!
Terrible. The site is now basically useless to me. Now, buyers won't be able to see a wider range of homes to choose because using this new site is so cumbersome. :-(
The old site was poor but acceptable, the new site is just plain garbage. I can't believe webmasters are trying to mix ipod style layouts with what should be a blazing fast page with competent controls. With a 12 year background
in computers I can tell you they had bad consultation from
the start. At the moment it is too buggy to even asses the technology and scripting they used.
At least keep the other site MLS.CA so people could have a choice/They would see that the old site needed to be upgraded but most people liked it and they could have let the number of hits on the two respective sites speak for themselves(god help anyone selling/ searching for homes now.
FUBAR FUBAR FUBAR / BRING BACK MLS.CA - AT LEAST THIS WAS SOMETHING TO WORK WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
obviously had unrealistic expectations of being successful in my searches. Gave up.
Property guys will be getting really stinking filthy RICH!
Don't bit the hand that feeds you fat cats.
Get with it. The old site worked clumsily, but this is disaster.
I key in Toronto, ( most people know where that is) and i get a map of the north pole to mid Kentucky. Then it goes all haywire when i try to get to toronto.
Who developed this. Get rid of it. It is hell to navigate. I found nothing.
Four tries and I have given up.
It is completely un-user friendly and absolute garbage!
I cannot believe that MLS.CA actually decided to use it!
I used the old site a lot and it was ok, even if it was a bit lacking in some areas.
What you are offering now is a disgrace to your custmers!
What ever possessed you people to do this to the old site?
Who ever approved this mess should be fired!
Until you fix it,I wlll suggest to all the realtors I know NOT to use it!
What a disgrace!
Andy.
I can't believe that the Sunshine Coast in BC went from having hundreds of listings to none....but according to your "new and improved" site, that's exactly what you are telling me. Crap....absolute crap. I don't know who you paid to spearhead that project, but you got ripped off.
I'm all for change- but IMHO this move was not a step forward. I used to be able to put in my local neighbourhood and quickly zone in on a property- seems to be a multiple step hit-miss with this new site. I say bring back the old until the figure it all out.
hehe sorry.
seriously.. what a disaster.
It's almost 2009.. but i swear after checking out the NEW IMPROVED site it feels like 1989 again.
Whoever coded this site and came up with the interface design etc should have really stopped by one of the local junior high schools and got some of the kids there to spend an hour or two and create something far better than this waste of space.
incredible.
is it april 1st?
seriously...
WTF?
I'm adding the link to this site to the email i sent them so they can read for themselves what people are thinking. They wasted an awful lot of money on this boo-boo, or should I say, doo-doo.
I'm adding the link to this site to the email i sent them so they can read for themselves what people are thinking. They wasted an awful lot of money on this boo-boo, or should I say, doo-doo.
1. The map is useless, if we know what area we want to buy in then why do we need this giant map which you can't close covering 75 % of the screen!
2. The pictures are so small and the addresses aren't shown anymore so I had to open each ad to find out what it looked like and where it was... I couldn't even see what units in my own complex were for sale because the pictures are so tiny.. not showing the addresses readily is more than ridiculous. THIS IS ABSURD!
3. The "old" format was twice as fast as it didn't have to reload this stupid map after looking at a property and returning to a tiny useless picture collection.
4. The designers of this should be flogged for making a somewhat useful format, MLS.ca, into this debauchery they now call REALTOR.ca.. out with the NEW and back with the OLD .....PLEASE!..at least until a proper easy to use format is available... What WERE THEY THINKING!!!!!!!
I've just been reading with great interest the incredible frustration so many people are feeling with MLS.CA and other sites for searching for homes. As a real estate agent, I don't actually use MLS.CA other than to see how my listings look to the public. Anyway, I just can't help but ask a question in general. When any and all of you can use the services of a qualified real estate agent for absolutely no cost, why then do you try to do something than can be offered by a realtor? I have lots of clients who love to surf the net looking at homes, for some, it's almost become a hobby. But for those who are really serious, I can create a personalized and automatic search that has you receiving listings that are completely up to date and within very specific criteria such as area, price, swimming pool, finished basement etc - every single day of the week. Then you can have just as much fun sifting through the many listings that actually meet your requirements, but without the frustration. I know I don't speak for all realtors and perhaps some of the writers have had a bad experience with real estate agents, but honestly, there are tons of really dedicated caring realtors out there that would be very happy to provide you with all of the information you need to find a home.
Sometimes I think that people believe they must pay a realtor which is why they try and find homes themselves. But that isn't the case. The next time any of you find yourself really frustrated with any of the online searches, do yourself a favour and just TRY calling a professional real estate agent, I'll be you'll be very glad you did.
Kind Regards and best wishes on your home search,
Debra
www.debracurran.ca
Uses all the current MLS data, but keeps the old layout.
Goes straight into spazz mode and have to click out and start over for more of the same- PLEASE get rid of it.
Bring back OLD set up
I think the idea of not trying to undercut the real estate agents is valid but however Why did you have to change the format of the website. If you don't want people to have the address information then remove that info from the old MLS site and just show the area and the realtor contat information. Get rid of the slow map and and put the pictures back to a visual size. I think this would be a happy medium for all of us MLS users and the Realtors out there!
In general this new site is micro-managed to the max.........to much clicking required............if your eye site is less than 100 percent good luck viewing at a glance........very confusing!!!
Perhaps the public as well as Realators should have had more of an input to the changes as whom ever decided to approve this site obviously did not use it on a regular basis?????
Please do Start over and take the many comments on this blog to heart and perhaps a site that is easy to view and user friendly with some of the good ideas you have employed can be achieved?????
To Debbra Curran,people dont always want to deal with a realtor,we dont want to be pressed for time,we dont want to have to hire babysitters.There are a lot of things that come into play.I cant house hunt in my jamies.I am certainly not going to bother people unless I am serious about buying their house.I dont like lookyloos.I dont appreciate having to scramble to tidy my house and leave at a moments notice for lookyloos.I wont do that to people.Its rude and it shows a lack of consideration for others.I have had my fair share of agents who take rude to a whole other level.When I find a house and I am serious about wanting to look at it,then I will call a realtor.
Are the properties that are not showing on <a href="http://www.TheOldMLS.com";>http://www.TheOldMLS.com<;/a> showing up on Realtor.ca ?
It was designed to guide purchasers to use a realtor, period. MLS has purposely taken away the functionality to make the services of a realtor more important. Personally, I have 4 realtors sending me my personalized treb.net listings every day by email (just in case). I met all these realtors at open houses and they were only too happy to "force" their free service on me, without a simple request by me. After the first 4, I have been turning down offers.
Not only will I not use their services to buy a house, but I love the fact that this new site has frustrated and stalled the purchasing machine only further.
15% decline in prices for the 1/2 month in October (year over year), in Toronto. I can only believe this awful tactic by the MLS has backfired and helped push this market back further in many areas.
I was planning on using a realtor to buy before they changed the site, but now I will just use their services and ditch them. Sure I will have to buy from the selling broker, but they are VERY willing to discount the price for an independent buyer. You think you don't pay for using a buying realtor, think AGAIN!
www.theOLDmls.ca
IT IS THE OLD SITE.
NOT SURE WHY THEY KEPT IT UP OR IF THEY JUST FELT THE NEED TO SUCCUMB TO THE HATEMAIL.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Bring back MLS.ca until you can find something better,because this crap is NOT!!
Until then,I would encourage everyone to boycott the new sight and the company that owns realtor.ca !
My wife is a realtor and even she can't make it work!
Garbage!
It's actually http://www.TheOldMLS.com (not .ca)
It is an incredible mess and you should read how people are feeling about it and get it CHANGED!!!
In a downturning market you make it harder for buyers to access listings? Yeah, that's the ticket! Designed and Implemented by absolute Morons!
I love how the author blowing sunshine about the new site is a realtor. Funny how the main user's of the site i.e. the customers think it blows. You might want to reverse engineer who your there for. Yourself or us
This is one of those cases of "if it aint broke don't fix it"!!! There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old very good and useful and user friendly MLS.ca. The less then motivated individual who dreamed up of this new web site should be forced to look at that useless website 24 and 7 for a month as a punishment. When he (or she) is finished this month of severe pain and aggravation, then another month "in the hole" for this disaster, unbelievable!!!! I would rather you just said thank you and be on your way to designing something useful and something that I can actually use and be worth spending the electricity used to run it.
I hoping the genius who sought out to ruin everybody's day has bin fired and has to look for a new home on Realtors.ca cause he can't afford the one he lives in now!!
I want MLS.ca back..
MLS.ca.. Much appreciated.. It works great and I don't have to deal with that stupid google map that does not allow me to zone in on certain geographical area's..
Anyone wanting the old one.. .com is USA .ca is Canada
You're going to lose business with this mess up.
FACT 1. (as has been mentioned) - the intent is to SELL AGENTS, not YOUR PROPERTY....furthermore, this has ALWAYS been true: do THIS for practice- go to real estate agents' OWN sites; even THERE you will find a WHOLE LOT of stuff selling THE AGENT, and very little directing you to LISTINGS!!!!
FACT 2: the situation will only change when the monopoly is broken by an agent starting his own comprehensive, user-friendly internet-based mls alternative....one which has its MAIN GOAL, the selling of PROPERTY and not AGENTS!!!!!.....
- WATCH HOW FAST the sellers will switch allegiance..(think GOOGLE vs all the other 'cluttered-up' search engines)...there is a FORTUNE to be made here...by matching sellers with buyers and thereby bypassing AGENTS who DELIBERATELY obstruct the process... to benefit ONLY themselves!!!
Great, an upgrade that works in less ways than what it has replaced. I hope it doesn't evolve into what the agents use: mlxchange.com which is a worse nightmare.
Bring back the page with areas so anyone looking for a specific location can simply check the box and search in the wanted area. This focus on finding by street etc is totally useless to people searching other areas in Canada or Internationally, by area is what is most important to many home shoppers.
When looking for a home on-line the old MLS was easy to navigate to the point and not so confusing. This site offers to much un-needed information. A big map that is useless and hard to use . Really what a Mess!!!
Try focusing on what is needed instead of showcasing unimportant and useless info!!!!
Who designed this Monster??????
a facebook group has been started protesting realtor.ca site
The new realtor.ca has made my job very time consuming and frustrating as i use the information for comparison as a home evalutor.
please give us the old system back or a hybrid site between the old and new!
But one little glitch, if you look at the address of the home, it is actually situated in a completely DIFFERENT CITY.
So I am sure the sellers are wondering why thier home isnt selling...well, it is listed in a city 1 hour away! People are interested, but the wrong people! There are two homes that i found, that are posted in the wrong city. And that is ONE area, i was looking on.
Good grief, get it together people!!! What a WASTE OF TIME...this site is.
The map (which was simple, smooth and QUICK in mls.ca)is now an abortion.
The site is now wholly non-intuitive; mls.ca was a delight to use in its predictibility and QUICKNESS; it encouraged interest in real estate by me and other potential buyers.
The present site (what is it again....Real Estate Agents Incorporated for the mis-management of Information Science!)is going to add to the current market doldrums by inhibiting potential purchasers interest as was the sitution before mls.ca was formed
Realtors must LOVE this new site. The worst search engine I have ever seen. Real estate agents must be laughing right now.
and you are losing your hockey dominance too, all thats left that you are best at is complaining about everything your far left national politicians do that you keep voting in.
Join the anti-realtor.ca group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34078321629
at what cost? IT IS SLOOOOOOW!
It is down all the time now and the database is screwed. Adresses from thousands of miles away are showing up in searches.
Whoever paid the geek that attempted to "FIX" the MLS should demand thier money back, plus try and recover some damages.
The only ones to benifit from this mess is real estate agents because we are now forced to actually talk to one to find listings.
to get info is an insult.
IT IS NOT!
In fact,it is worse!
It is hard to believe that in this day and age,this is the best you could come up with?
Bring back the old site because even with it's drawbacks,it was so much better than this garbage!
The designers of this site need to go back to school and find out where they went wrong!
A truly terrible piece of work!
When on the Realtor.ca site, select "Advanced Search" from the toolbar at the top and you'll be redirected to the old style MLS.ca search page.
Try it: http://www.realtor.ca/propertySearch.aspx
Hope it helps, for what it's worth. The overall update to the mls.ca site is an abysmal failure and I'm completely beside myself that someone gave this new design the thumbs up to go live.
Why not just pull the plug on the new site??? & switch on the old!!!!!
I heard from someone they're still filling in the same boxes they used to when entering a new listing.
What an Unbelievably crappy, unuseable, frustrating piece of crap...and they (CREA) are not even contemplating fixing it. In their press release they stated that it's a move ahead??? and that people will just have to get used to it??
The conspiracy theories in this case appear to be correct. An attempt (a poor one at that) to boost contacts with agents.
In this fast paced life I don't have the time nor the patience to screw around with an agent. The old MLS site allowed me to narrow my search to what "I" felt was appropriate, not some scum bag agent.
I will be exploring every option but MLS/Agents next time.
If I had a house listed on MLS I'd be telling my agent to knock off a percentage at least since the website is totally useless for advertising purposes. Wasn't that the "big" sell in the past...you get your house listed on our website!
Piece of CRAP!
Can't find anything that I am looking for.
PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD FORMAT.
For those that are down on the realtors, they have nothing to do with the change to realtor.ca. It was shoved down their throats. CREA listened to their concerns about as much as listening to yours. They pay big money to CREA for membership and the 'right' to put their listings on realtor.ca. Deaf ears all around.
What is CREA - a DICTATORSHIP?????
Take responsibility for their actions!!!!!!!! Or else VOTE THEIR ASSES OFF !!!!!
If there are SO many realtors out there that don't like the site - THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
Regarding their press release bragging about their new format, do you or does anyone out there know how to get all these complaints out at once to someone who might care or have some pull? They might be keeping the lid on it.
Bring back the old MLS.CA and let me find a property in the area I am looking for in less time that the new site can display the google map. Which is a terrible tool to use.
The fact that these issues still haven't been fixed despite months of negative and horrific reviews by users speaks volumes about uncaring the industry is.
Property Guys is the best site I have used and I will have faith in my own knowledge that I can sell or buy my own house thankyou very much!!
For everyone: go to http://theoldmls.com and you can use the old interface.
BUT, please take a second to email info@crea.ca and send a cc to to Marc Lafrance, their marketing gura at mlafrance@crea.ca and let them know who you feel. If you don't get a response, someone must be reading the email.
But again, PLEASE write to them and let them know you feelings.
BACK TO THE OLD FORMAT PLEASE!!
The MLS site wasn't that bad a few years ago, they had large pictures and it was fairly easy to navigate through. Why change it for the worse. Maybe it's because they do not want people like us to access the information. Maybe they are afraid of loosing their commission? I think the real estate people with their high fees could certainly give their customer a chance to view what is out there. All of the houses we purchased we had seen them on MLS and requested our agent to show them to us. I feel that when I make such a large investment I want to know that I get the best I can get for my money. So please Realtor.ca and MLS.ca get on your toes!!!!!!
Sorry Bob I'm just not interested! I know how to use the site .....I just don't have the time or the interest to navigate it. It's a complete waste of my time and I won't go into all the reasons why I' dissatisfied. Take my word for it.....It is a terrible website! Whoever designed this should go back to school. Have you or anyone in your organization read any of the comments from dozens of unsatisfied potential customers? There are hundreds of reasons why people are dissatisfied. Here is a link to their blog: Do yourself a favour, read their comments and take action to change it or go back to the original MLS.ca This new site is just too unfriendly and time consuming to bother with. http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/07/goodbye_mlsca_hello_realtorca/#comments
Bring back the old mls.ca
This is the worst stinking site I have ever tried to navigate. MLS.ca was so simple and brought up any area I was interested looking into. We are thinking of relocating to a different city and I am trying to get general information of what is available, prices, etc. Of course when we get down to more serious inquiries, we will contact a Realtor. We found our present house through MLS.ca and it was so fast and simple. I am going to look for houses for sale by owner "Property Guys" etc and forget going through Realtors simply because of this lousy site.
( and trust me i have been a real estate agent in a few countries).
It's time consuming, it's slow, it freezes and the reloading constantly of the maps beggers belief.
The worse thing about it is if you are moving to a different area, that you don't know, you cannot narrow the search, for instance my husband was offered a job in Ottawa (we live about 20 mins from Niagara falls)and we couldn't get the system to work.....Why????? because we don't know what the areas are called, so mls brought up everything in the area or it said that the search was over 500
Typical of the Real Estate industry to make it even more difficult to find and view potential properties for sale and navigate info easily. The previous mls.ca was far better. The new one realator.ca speaks for itself. It's typically all about the realator (agent) making as much money as possible and keeping information away from buyers and sellers. It's a crooked industry. Their commissions should be reduced and capped. The industy is discusting.
You can't search narrow your search to an area of the city at all.
gave up, not using this site. privateexchange.ca still works great:)
What a horrible experience! I can't wait to list with bytheownercom
today!!! Great website!!! I truly believe we lost our chance on a dream home becaue the mls site was so brutal. So often, when typing in our address 540 Silvermeadow Place, Waterloo, or even the city "Waterloo' it came up saying ZERO properties for sale OR
'does not recognize city'.
Good bye MLS, help bytheowner.com!!!!!
Midnight can't come fast enough!!!!
I will NEVER list with an agent again if the MLS site stays the same.
Admittedly it is slow.
realtor.ca is far more of a pain.
someone is going to jail.
the old site worked perfectly
many are usingfree internet advertising and forgoing real estate agents, and svaing thousands-
so yes it;ll backfire
yes , if you ASK FOR AN AREA THAT'S WHAT IT USED TO GIVE YOU.
you only needed to ask!
remember realtors only look out for themselves.
The concept is good. However, the implementation is awful. It's got my (quite powerful) computer constantly locked up at 99% CPU. Despite making such huge resource demands upon my computer, the site is still sluggish and unresponsive. It's unbearable on my wife's laptop.
Take it from someone who writes software for a living, it shouldn't take a 3.33Ghz Intel i7 to power the relatively modest functions that the site offers. That fact that it does tells me that someone has seriously messed up in the coding department. I'm guessing there's some horrible cpu-eating spinning loop hack in there somewhere.
Check out this site for real estate listings in Bronx. It should include what you are looking for.
http://www.housingblock.com/for-sale/US/NY/Bronx-real-estate/
map search: http://www.housingblock.com/for-sale/US/NY/Bronx-real-estate/
I am strongly in favor of allowing private sellers total access to the marketing aids associated with property presentation on Realtor.ca.
There's no denying the marketing assistance offered by a licensed realtor in many, if not most real estate sales is extremely beneficial. However, there are many situations where allowing a private individual the opportunity to flex his sales ability, on a level playing field, with equal quality presentation, is the right thing to do. It's fair.
So if that's the purpose of Realtor.ca, then GO REALTOR.CA.
Is not the MLS and Realtor.ca site just a part of the realty trade ?
To me they are tools used by the realty industry to advertise available properties for sale and generate a market information.
Interested public will try to pre-sort what they like by themselves and since those properties are listed, they have than to use a realtor anyway.
The industry is not interested wether the sites are user friendly or not, they want you to go to a realtor.