Iman News reported on the issues surrounding the Competition Bureau and CREA – “Canada’s gov’t pushes for MLS changes” – click here to read
It is worth a look. Basically the Competition Bureau in Canada wants to allow brokers to put a sellers listing on the MLS and provide no other service, and for the seller name and contact information to be on the listing on MLS.ca so any buyer can contact the seller directly.
The interesting thing to me is that if Google indexes all of the listings (as they can demonstrate now) so you can search “Real Estate Anytown”, all a seller needs to do is put his own listing up in a format that will index (will be supplied by someone in the FSBO business I am sure) and return a result from Google and he has successfully bypassed the MLS entirely.
Isn’t it time to quit resisting change and to find out how we can stay relevant in this new world?
We cannot litigate our way to prosperity – why not just accept that the good old days are gone, they will never come back, and get on with it?
Any opinions?
Don
don@agentinvitation.com
