When we (Homekeys) built our business plan back in 2003 we talked about allowing agents and homeowners to list their homes for free on our site. The first version of our software had what we called the OLS®, Open Listing Service. Even today we provide the OLS for free.
It seems in the last few months web site after web site is now providing a version of the OLS for free. Googlebase, Trulia, Propsmart, Homegain, and Zillow. Zillow has already acquired more than 7000 listings from agents and homeowners since their announcement last week.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for the MLS associations and their IDX feeds. It would be great if we all could gain access to any listing in the country through a RSS XML based feed. Googlebase seems to be the front leader but don't count Zillow out.
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