Maureen McCabe of Columbus, Ohio, has a poll up on her blog about what the best real estate search engine is in her area. Head on over and cast a vote. You may well not be familiar with the area (I certainly am not) but you can decide for yourself which is the best local real estate search engine by checking them out.
Two interesting things to note:
- There’s no mention of her local MLS’s public search site. Either her local MLS doesn’t have a public site, or it’s just a really bad one.
- Since real estate is a very local activity, it makes sense that real estate search is the same. Two of the entrants on the poll are local Columbus-based real estate companies (one of them being Maureen’s company itself).
Tags: Oodle, Propsmart, Real estate, Real estate search, Realtor.com, Trulia
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Maureen McCabe // Oct 26, 2006 at 12:20 am
Thanks for the mention. We do not have an MLS public search, I think we did but it disappeared. Cincinnati MLS did away with theirs about 18 months ago because the brokerages did not want to compete with an mls site, they wanted the traffic on their own sites. A group of small brokers sued the MLS and lost.
HER Real Livings website or Real Living’s (we are HER in the Columbus market) is different in a lot of way’s. Our own listings go on as Real Time listings, they aren’t fed back to the search from MLS. Our listings are on Realtor.com, Trulia, Oodle, etc.
Read Inman, you’ll get to know the name Real Living.
2 Kevin Boer, Alain Pinel Realtors // Oct 26, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Would love to hear what the end results are of your poll! My theory is that since real estate itself is local, therefore real estate search is also local. Our most-trafficked local search site is reil.com, run by the MLS itself. In some areas where the local MLS does not have a site, I understand the most popular site there is often Realtor.com. In the Pacific NW, I understand the most popular search site is Windermere. In your area, if I understand correctly, it’s probably one of the broker sites as well?
3 Sting Chen // Nov 15, 2006 at 7:02 am
If you try to search house at California, you should visit Movoto.com (http://www.movoto.com), I think that website has plenty of houses, neighborhoods, schools information.
4 Kevin Boer, Three Oceans Real Estate // Nov 15, 2006 at 8:16 am
I like Movoto as well. Clean, relatively fast interface. Lots of useful information like schools. Great web site.
5 John Loren // Jul 14, 2007 at 8:31 am
Try http://www.MLSprintouts.com Covers all Southern California and has and is looking for affiliates all over the USA and act as a Lead Generator and Refferal Website. I’m a member FYI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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