San Diego MLS vs. Zillow and Trulia-like Websites

The extreme diversity of the housing market in San Diego makes finding the best homes for sale to be quite a daunting task. To successfully search property in San Diego, many variables should be considered such as price, location, composition and style. However, such important information may not always readily available on the Internet despite how it may seem.  If the information is there, the data could be not up to date and even totally wrong. These obvious handicaps plaguing many interested buyers of San Diego homes for sale can make the entire experience a grueling and perhaps even a traumatic one.

However, searching for real estate property in San Diego does not have to be a long and tedious process anymore, all thanks to the aid provided by the San Diego real estate multiple listing service, or San Diego MLS. Unlike the uncertainty and the difficulty many potential buyers face trying to find the “perfect” home for them when browsing through the jungle that is the Internet, the San Diego MLS is a system designed to help house hunters gain access to the most important data about current San Diego homes for sale.

The Multiple Listings Services, also known as MLS listings, is a database that makes it possible for real estate brokers to disseminate and inform their potential clients about the properties they are selling. The San Diego MLS, just like any other multiple listing services that are rampant in the United States and Canada alike, enables real estate brokers, who are members also the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and also registered to the MLS listings system, to share with each other relevant information about all the available homes for sale in the area. Year of construction, number of square-feet of the house, overall acreage, exterior type and property classification are some of the data that the San Diego MLS could provide.

IDX Pulls Actual MLS Data “The Zillows” DON’T

On sites like Zillow or other similar popular home search sites, the accuracy of the information regarding homes for sale depend largely on the initiative of the listing agent or even the home seller to provide the most updated information possible. These updates are not always made in a timely fashion if at all. Unlike these real estate websites, our official REALTOR IDX site provides access to the most accurate and most up-to-date information when researching about homes available in the San Diego real estate market. This is because, unlike sites like Zillow, Tulia and the like where the data is not accurate and user generated, the home search system on LLSellsSD.com pulls information directly from the MLS. Further, the data is updated not only daily, but multiple times in a day. This guarantees that information gathered from our site is the most recent and updated data about MLS homes and San Diego listing information. While only licensed real estate professionals have access to the actual MLS, an IDX site that pulls from the MLS is the most accurate information you can get about the local real estate market. (*With a small caveat where a very small percentage of brokers have opted out of the IDX exchange of information.)

As we believe in providing the best possible service for all interested real estate sellers and buyers in San Diego, we make sure that they get the most accurate and most updated information possible. But more importantly, what we provide is the convenience and accuracy that most real estate sites found on the Internet do not provide. After all, finding your dream home does not always have to be a real estate nightmare, in fact it should be the road to realizing some dreams. Click to search listings from  actual and most accurate data pulled from the San Diego MLS now.