Properties that agents share with you are coming from a Multiple Listing Service, which means their details and status are usually much more accurate than other search sites, which often pull data from all sorts of sources across the internet.

Once an agent lists your home on the Multiple Listing Service, it’s on display for every other agent working with an active buyer. Those agents can search based on square footage, beds/baths, acreage, and more

Yes. Open house information is stored and shared between agents on the Multiple Listing Service. Buyers’ agents can search and share open houses with their clients, so long as the information has been uploaded onto the Multiple Listing Service by the listing agent.

Only real estate agents can get direct access to the Multiple Listing Service — so that sensitive and private information (things like front door codes, lock box combinations, and times of day when the home is vacant) stays in the hands of professionals. In some markets, a Multiple Listing Service may maintain a website buyers can access too.

Yes. While some data on the Multiple Listing Service can be accessed by the public, private information like whether or not the home is vacant, times of day available for walk-throughs, and entry information are kept private, only accessible by registered real estate agents/members of the Multiple Listing Service.