multiple listing

American  

noun

1. the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.

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Example Sentences

You listed your home with an agent who’d page through their Multiple Listing Service book and tell prospects about houses in their price range.

From MarketWatch

Older homeowners are “more likely to sell off-MLS,” using private or pocket listings that never appear on the Multiple Listing Service database, and they are also “more likely to sell directly to investors rather than to individual home buyers.”

From MarketWatch

Zillow, the online real estate marketplace for homes to rent, buy or sell, requires agents to list homes on the multiple listing service, or MLS, a broad housing market industry database that feeds into Zillow and other websites, within a day of marketing it to the public.

From Barron's

Starting in January, the National Association of Realtors will no longer recommend that local Multiple Listing Service databases mandate membership for agents.

From Barron's

Most homes that appear on listing sites such as Zillow and Redfin are first advertised by agents on the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, a network of hundreds of local databases used to share information.

From Barron's