In December 2006 I posted information on progress of MLS consolidation in the Bay Area:

California: MLS in Turmoil

A few month later, in my post

Who Started the Real Estate Revolution? 

I lamented at that time that MLS owners don't seem to understand what clients want and pointed to these companies that know: Trulia and Zillow. Many things happened since and most of the Bay Area MLSs joined either Quattro or NCREX (NCREX changed its name since to MLSListings). Despite all these changes – Quattro was in denial of the reality (clients’ demand for better public search capabilities) and discontinued it public search! Quattro management (or was it San Francisco Association of Realtors?) hoped that clients will go to individual brokers to do their search. Clients had a different idea, however, and switched to Trulia instead.

Today - MLSListings announced that it will partner with Quattro (the MLS's of the San Francisco Association of REALTORS®, BAREIS, and MetroList) to create the largest and most complete MLS data-share in Northern California. MLSListings announced today that it will partner with Quattro (the MLS's of the San Francisco Association of REALTORS®, BAREIS, and MetroList) to create the largest and most complete MLS data-share in Northern California.

This is great news for agents and brokers and it is great news for the clients as well. Competition starts bringing results benefiting us all.