Whether you’re looking to sell or buy a home, you will no doubt encounter the multiple listing service, or MLS. The site and service are, in many ways, the very lifeblood of the real estate business.

The Multiple Listing Service, more commonly known and referred to as an MLS, is an online database created by and for real estate brokers to post information about the properties they have for sale.

Manipulating the Multiple Listing Service has been the talk of the industry ever since a soap-opera case involving the Jills came to light this summer. But gaming the system isn’t just restricted to ...

NORTH BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--REdistribute, a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) joint venture that collects and distributes MLS data for institutional use, has secured data coverage of nearly 50% ...

Rockville-based MRIS is consolidating with eight other Mid-Atlantic multiple-listing services to become a new entity called Bright MLS, the company said Thursday. The consolidation of MRIS with ...

Yes, the MLS seems like an invention of the modern age. But, in fact, the term “multiple listing”—and the overarching concept behind it—was first coined in 1907. Back then it described the old-timey ...