For years, much to the detriment of real estate buyers, sellers, agents and brokers alike, real estate listings have been restricted by Multiple Listings Services(MLS) that subscribed to an IDX(Internet Data eXchange) to provide access to listings in a particular area for a fee. Now, with Google's open Base Housing API(Application programming interface), which is still in beta, but already has close to 7 million real estate listings, we think the typical MLS will become a thing of the past. They...
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