The seven leading MLSs in Northern California, including MLSListings, announced the creation of have formed NorCal MLS Alliance, a data share collaborative which will ensure real estate professionals in Northern California have the greatest access to MLS data in and near the areas they do business. This move will give subscribers greater access to listing data for all major Northern California counties via Matrix. Initial implementation is slated for Q3 2020.

Three different MLS systems serve the seven MLSs in the NorCal MLS Alliance: Matrix (CoreLogic), Paragon (Black Knight), and Rapattoni. Each MLS has thousands of agents using their system. With the creation of NorCal MLS Alliance, each of the three systems will have all of the data in their respective data base. This means MLSListings subscribers will be able to seamlessly access this new, larger set of data via Matrix, their home system, without having to change to a different and unfamiliar system (i.e., no more switching systems from Matrix to Paragon to Rapattoni). Agents will continue to use the same system they are accustomed to, but with substantially more listing data from a much wider geography. NorCal MLS Alliance’s collaborative data sharing initiative will provide brokers and agents with a single set of listing data that will cover most of Northern California, from the Bay Area to the Central Valley to the crest of the Sierra Mountains. To REALTOR® members of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® and other MLSListings subscribers, this means MLSListings will be adding San Francisco, North Bay, and Central Valley counties to the data shared with the East Bay, enabling agents to enter listings and search data covering 22 Northern California counties and reaching over 60,000 real estate professionals.

Plans are to implement Phase 1 with shared system data to include the six Bay Area MLSs (SFAR, BAREIS, bridgeMLS, CCAR, BayEast and MLSListings) by the third quarter of 2020, with continued access to Metrolist data through the current reciprocal system that is already in place. Phase 2 of the project, which will further integrate and interconnect data from the nine-county service area of MetroList with the Bay Area systems, is set for 2021.

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