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NEW NATIONAL MLS CONSUMER WEB SITE IN CANADA

By Fred Carver Real Estate Consulant

Industry Observer with Retired BC Realtor

July 07, 2008 05:18 PM

Canada's www.mls.ca has changed to www.realtor.ca

On July 2, 2008 the New REALTOR.ca was launched, consumers will find New interactive mapping and search Criteria.
The Existing National Consumer MLS site www.mls.ca will remain in effect and then forward to www.realtor.ca

There were an Average of Nearly 3 Million Unique Visitors a month to mls.ca throughout 2007!.

"80% of CREA members say www.mls.cawas their primary marketing tool for their MLS listings."

The New mapping technology will be interactive from Microsoft Virtual Earth and .Visitors will still be able to view MLS listings across the country and by using the interactive mapping, select the specific area or neighborhood they are interested in.

Check out the New CREA MLS web site by clicking on the captured web site front page of realtor.ca photo below

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Laura Cerrano

Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY

Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Fred, I hope the new site works well for everyone. I was recently on our Long Island site and was shocked by some of the photos that were put up. But I've seen your homes, they are just beautiful.

Jul 08, 2008 12:41 AM

Fred Carver Real Estate Consulant

Retired BC Realtor - Victoria, BC

Accredited Real Estate Consultant

Hi Carole...we're all excited with out new MLS system from Tarasoft, these people are so creative, plus our board computer staff can do improvement in house as we see fit. I'mon our MLS computer committee and I am really enjoying watching all of this finally happen....good stuff for Realtors and their clients!

Cheers Carole, thanks for visiting again!

Jul 08, 2008 03:10 AM

Kathy Clulow

Uxbridge, ON

Trusted For Experience - Respected For Results

Fred - I checked it out the new site and found the new mapping technology did not display my listings in the correct location, which likely means I have some reading to do to find out if it is the way the listings were submitted or if it is the way the program locates them ... all in all it offers more that the old site but seems to download info a little slower ... sometimes new technology is not suited for all markets especially one like ours were a very large number of users are still on dial up.

Jul 08, 2008 04:07 AM

Hi Kathy...Personally I seldom go to the consumer side, How about emailing CREA and or your Board, you may have some valid points to address, www.realtor.ca web site is still fairly new.

Cheers, thanks for visiting

Jul 08, 2008 06:40 AM

Fred - we deep link to mls.ca so we often check to make sure it still works properly as for realtor.ca I thought I would let them work out any bugs first.

Jul 08, 2008 11:43 AM

Hi Kathy....Thanks for your input, I agree lets let them workout the bugs, it might be helpfull if you let CREA know about any Glitches.

Cheers, have a great day!

Jul 08, 2008 01:41 PM

Donata Morandi

2Glamour Inc. - Toronto, ON

2Glamour.ca

I always have a very hard time finding my listings too... and Kathy is right. I think it is a lot harder to find listings on the consumer side, and hopefully this is something that will be addressed! Most often, i get so frustrated that i have to ask the agent to send the link to me!!

Oct 01, 2008 01:45 AM

Hi Donata..I agree, although I seldom go there myself, many Buyers and Sellers come to me through my Blogging here in the Rain with Goggle giving me good spots with the Goggle Juice AR gives us..Keep Blogging in the Rain!

Thanks For Sharing your Thoughts..Please come again!

Oct 01, 2008 03:40 PM

Fred, i will take your advice and hope that will work for me as well!!! Since a few months have passed and no major improvements have taken place, we shall start relying on something else!

Thanks!!

Oct 02, 2008 03:14 PM

Hi Donata...try to post a min ten times on other members posts and put up at least two to three New Blog Posts here. Write about your town or city, farm area, take photos of events, your success's selling a client a new house or selling theirs...Add Graphics and photos to your Blogs.

Cheers, thanks for dropping by.

Oct 02, 2008 03:54 PM

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