The Mid-Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service is comprised of seven Central Florida real estate boards with nearly 10,000 members and includes the Orlando Regional Realtor Association, Greater Lake, Osceola, East Polk, Bartow, West Volusia and Lakeland Associations of Realtors.

When we place your property on the Mid-Florida Regional MLS it will be exposed to all Realtor members in the counties of Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole & West Volusia.

A record 24,251 single-family existing homes were sold last year in the Orlando area, shattering the previous record of 21,356 set in 2002.

A Multiple Listing Service is a co-operative system for collecting and organizing information on available properties for sale in a given area. Such information is shared by it’s members who agree to cooperate with each other and to abide by certain operating procedures and bylaws.

The Pinellas Realtor® Organization also participates in an MLS Cooperative along with seven other regional Associations of REALTORS® along the Florida West Coast.

The Cooperative consists of the following Associations, comprising more than 16,000 REALTOR® members:

The geographic area covered by this Cooperative stretches from Pasco County in the north through Charlotte County in the south. While the Co-op currently has eight associations, it has the capability of adding others as they decide to join.

The new MLS Cooperative will allow each Association’s members the ability to also search for MLS listings through this reciprocal system. This added capability will allow greater exposure and provid more options for available real estate properties up and down most of the west coast of Florida.

Listings that are added and revised on each Association’s MLS system will automatically be sent electronically to the new MLS Co-op. Association members will be able to search properties for sale as well as to view historical data.

The MLS is the most effective and powerful way to promote your property to the thousands of local licensed Realtors® who represent serious and qualified buyers.

The Multiple Listing Service is a tool available exclusively to the 800,000 members of the National Association of Realtors, 90,000 members of the Florida Association of Realtors and the 12,000 plus real estate companies that make up the local MLS boards in Florida.

Being listed on the local Realtor MLS is crucial for anyone serious about selling. More than 75% of all home buyers use the services of a Realtor. The Realtor uses the MLS to search for available houses on the market.

Most buyers use a Realtor in their search to find a home because it doesn't cost them anything and it usually saves the buyer a lot of time, effort, and frustration.

According to indusrty experts four out of every five homes are sold through the Multiple Listing Service.

The local Realtors® Association is a part of the National Association of Realtors® and is an organized entity designed to help real estate agents from many different companies cooperate with each other, establish guidelines for service and ethical issues, and strive to make the real estate community more professional.

It also oversees the "MLS" computer system - the source agents turn to first to find properties for their buyers.

It is through the "MLS" that most of the residential real estate deals are brought together. As real estate professionals, we have all agreed to exchange information about properties for sale in order to help sell homes for the best price possible in the least amount of time.

We pay an annual fee to the Realtors® Association for the right to publish information about your home in the computer system and agree to pay a commission to any agent that has a buyer for your home.

One of the most important jobs we do to help market your home to other Realtors® on the MLS is to offer detailed listing information and multiple photos of your homes best selling features.

Best of all, you don't give up your flexibility to sell your home "BY-OWNER." If you find a buyer on your own, you'll still pay no commission.

If a Realtor® brings you a buyer, just pay the Realtor® a reduced commission, usually around 3% of the selling price, at closing.

Check out the resources for everything you'll want to know to sell your property "by-owner"! Plus free contract and Florida disclosure forms, Free home listing sites, links to your local county property appraiser and a complete library of free marketing tools and resources! Go to www.mlsunited.com

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