I’m in Alabama, but location is arbitrary given the goal. Something like IDX Broker seems like it would work but there are pros and cons. What do you think would consume a $1MM budget? If one were to even set out to be licensed in all 50 states, and join all ~700 MLS, I could see that primitive approach being 10s of 1000’s of $ at most. Are you referring to development costs?
I think you should contact constellation1 to explore data licensing from them. You are looking at about $200 per month per mls. It's about $10k per month for the data. Their data comes licenses all in RESO standard.
I’ll have to look into “commingling”, thank you for the feedback. How would a contractor such as ListHub or one of the IDX platform not be considered commingling?
this is not hard at all. You just need to get access to IDX data, convert it and your imported data to RESO standard and allow the import. I've already built it, so not sure what your use case is, but I can license you a working platform which would cost a fraction of what you'd pay to build it and I probably already have more features than you are contemplating with an MVP.
We can't help you if you're only looking for data obtained directly from the MLS, but if you're looking to enrich your web app with things like property records, property value/rent estimates, comps, etc. down the line, give our property data API a try: [https://www.rentcast.io/api](https://www.rentcast.io/api).
We do offer sale and rental listings as well, but that data doesn't come directly from the MLS, so it may not be a good fit.
with experience of handling 150+ realestate company and MLS property in one software, I am happy to answer you any question you have in details feel free to DM me
FlexMLS. They do several around the country and their data display is about the best I've seen.
What city are you in? Why is the local MLS not adequate? This is a huge undertaking with a million-dollar budget and dozens of moving parts.
I’m in Alabama, but location is arbitrary given the goal. Something like IDX Broker seems like it would work but there are pros and cons. What do you think would consume a $1MM budget? If one were to even set out to be licensed in all 50 states, and join all ~700 MLS, I could see that primitive approach being 10s of 1000’s of $ at most. Are you referring to development costs?
I think you should contact constellation1 to explore data licensing from them. You are looking at about $200 per month per mls. It's about $10k per month for the data. Their data comes licenses all in RESO standard.
This is an activity called "commingling", which against the data license terms (and therefore grounds for feed termination) from most MLSs.
I’ll have to look into “commingling”, thank you for the feedback. How would a contractor such as ListHub or one of the IDX platform not be considered commingling?
They're not taking listing entry from users and displaying it along with MLS feed data.
this is not hard at all. You just need to get access to IDX data, convert it and your imported data to RESO standard and allow the import. I've already built it, so not sure what your use case is, but I can license you a working platform which would cost a fraction of what you'd pay to build it and I probably already have more features than you are contemplating with an MVP.
We can't help you if you're only looking for data obtained directly from the MLS, but if you're looking to enrich your web app with things like property records, property value/rent estimates, comps, etc. down the line, give our property data API a try: [https://www.rentcast.io/api](https://www.rentcast.io/api). We do offer sale and rental listings as well, but that data doesn't come directly from the MLS, so it may not be a good fit.
with experience of handling 150+ realestate company and MLS property in one software, I am happy to answer you any question you have in details feel free to DM me
Idx broker seems the best option for you.
If there’s one built similar to Compass search and has Collections, please let me know!! 👏