What is an MLS listing?

November 01, 2012

Do you want to find a property for sale in St. Paul? How about a piece of Minneapolis real estate? Perhaps real estate in western Wisconsin? Wherever you're looking for homes for sale in these areas, MLS listings can help.

MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service. It's a service that real estate agents use to publish their property listings for sale, so their active listings can be found by other real estate agents.

Real estate brokerages, like Edina Realty, participate in a system called broker reciprocity, where brokers give each other permission to display their listings on each other's websites. Brokers who participate in broker reciprocity can display information from each other's active listings.

Participating in broker reciprocity allows important information from MLS listings to be searchable on edinarealty.com. Using our property search, you can customize your search to find the right home in regards to price, location and any number of factors you deem important in a home, regardless of which REALTOR® first listed it. The listings on edinarealty.com are updated every hour, so you can be assured that you're looking at the most current property listings when you search for homes on edinarealty.com.