As a former Realtor I can say that MLS is private data. (Although I
haven't had my license in a while) As far I knew, only licensed Realtors
we're allowed direct access to that data. (And even they pay a monthly
fee). MLS being populated by Realtors themselves has to remain private
or else no one would need the Realtor. You could just do all your
searching online and contact owners directly. Then you get into the gray
area of 'Should the Realtor receive their percentage if they didn't
bring the seller and the buyer together?'
I _can_ say that the national MLS system that Realtors use is CF based.
(It's slow as crap though)
However, if you do discover a service or anything they are offering to
the public, I'll gladly help in writing a CFC.
Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
-----Original Message-----
From: Dwayne Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:11 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MLS cfc or custom tag.
>Good luck Dwayne! MLS is copyrighted proprietary data. Pretty much
you
>can't get it without paying for it =)
>
> - Rick
>
The company is already paying access to the data as well as access to
the online system. There are various ways that they can download comma
delimited version of the information, in fact I even think there is a
RSS feed that's made available. I just can't find the specifics.
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