Using Technology to Buy a Home?
There are so many consumer real estate websites. So many ways information is delivered and marketed to you when you are looking for your next home. With alllllllllllllllll that information there are also many frustrations that pop up when the information isn’t accurate. While similar, every listing website markets and displays information differently. What ALL Denver Metro “home for sale” websites have in common is they are fed the information directly from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database. Why not ditch the middle men (looking at you Zillow and Redfin and…) and go straight to the source?
When I first started in real estate, we had a huge book delivered to the office every Monday with all the Metro listings. You then had to search for listings on the computer using code typed in MS-DOS. How far we’ve come in 20 years!
Over the years, I’ve had clients use the various listing sites and the way it worked was usually some messy combination like this:
Client would copy and paste links on houses they had interest in
Client would email me those links
I would then look up said homes up in MLS for more information, plus see if it was even still available.
We would then exchange approximately 1,297 emails back and forth trying to keep track of what listings we had sent each other that the Client actually wanted to see.
I am happy to report there is no longer the need to be so inefficient!
Denver MLS—ReColorado
The Denver MLS (ReColorado) now has an app that Realtors can use to provide a direct link to the MLS for their clients. Not only are you, the client, able to search on your own, you’re also able to view the auto emails of listings that fit the search criteria we pre-populated to fit your needs. The moment there is a change in MLS, the listings in your app are updated as well. Mark listings as a Favorite, Possibility, or Discard with one touch. Plus, write notes to share with us right from the listing’s page. Easy breezy!
