The role of MLS in a competitive marketplace
Real estate is an extremely competitive profession. Buyers and sellers choosing to work with a professional can select from a wide choice of realtors, service options and pricing models.
Using the MLS gives excellent exposure to properties for sale, thus attracting offers. Many alternate systems and services exist to buy and sell homes and they a ...
What is the MLS?
Vancouver Sun April 1, 2010
Realtors compete with each other for your business, but at the same time cooperate to help you buy or sell property. That unique concept of cooperating while competing lead to creation of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in 1950 by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.
The MLS is fundamentally a cooperative marketing system that helps ...
A steady influx of new listings has helped create a balanced 'typical spring' housing market in the Greater Vancouver region.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that new listings for detached, attached and apartment properties in Greater Vancouver totalled 7,004 in March 2010. This represents a 60 per cent in ...
New listings for detached, attached and apartment properties declined 1.7 per cent to 4,331 in August
2008 compared to August 2007, when 4,408 new units were listed.
"In August, properties on average remained on the market longer than we've seen in recent years,"
REBGV president, Dave Watt said. "As the market heads into the traditionally more active fall season,
we have begun to see prop ...
JUNE REAL ESTATE REPORT CONTINUED...
New listings for detached, attached and apartment properties increased 18.3 per cent to 6,546 in June 2008 compared to June 2007, when 5,533 new units were listed.
"Although housing prices, on a year-over-year comparison, continue to show single-digit percentage increases, we are beginning to see more price reductions in properties listed on the market t ...
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SEPTEMBER REAL ESTATE REPORT
The Real Estate industry is a key economic driver in British Columbia. In 2006, dollar volume sales of homes in Greater Vancouver set a new record at more than $ ...
Stocks fell first, is real estate next? National Post,August 11, 2001 Housing sales decline forecast - Vancouver Sun, November 29, 2002 It's looking more and more like new bubbles have formed in the bond market and real estate - Vancouver Sun, August 16, 2003 The hot house suddenly looks chilly - The Globe and Mail, June 12, 2004 Will the price bubble burst?: If Sydney is anything to go by, s ...
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