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by Tjeerd Geerts

In the Spanish real estate market real estate agents can be very “pushy” trying to sell property which is on their books. This is caused by the fact that in Spain the real estate market is free and any estate agent is entitled to sell any house.

As each individual estate agent has an average as little as 80 properties on their books they want to make sure the clients are buying a property off their books before they wonder off to the competition. Multiple Listing Systems (MLS) as being used in Holland, Japan and the US solve this problem by offering the estate agent the complete listings of all on the MLS connected real estate agents, offering his client more choice of property from his colleagues. For the buyer it is easier as he does not have to “shop around” from each estate agent to another, all trying despaired to sell “their” properties, and for the estate agent, although he will have to share his commissions with the estate agent providing the property, he will not lose his client completely to the competition. The estate agent logs in on the main website www.inmolink.net with his personal access codes. Once logged on the system functions as a full administrative system providing the estate agent with numerous tools to search manage and publish property information. Caused by the lack of legal regulation by the Spanish law of estate agents, the estate agents connected to the MLS must obey to a very strict set of rules regarding the collaboration process and customer treatment. Regarding the future, a company spokesman said they want to expand to cover more of the Costa Blanca area, as for now they only cover the areas of La Nucia, Benidorm, Altea, Polop, Calpe and Moraira. The Inmolink MLS is also accessible for consumers on www.findspanishproperties.com. With over 3500 it is one of the largest resources for Costa Blanca Property on the net. All properties are from the 30 professional estate agents now connected to the system. Meanwhile, other, similar companies like www.mls.es have been brought into existence as an initiative of various franchise brands like Remax, Goldwell & Banker and Look and Find. Also in the Marbella and the Barcalona area you will find this new, internet driven technology of which we hope in the end, will be helping the consumer to make the Spanish real estate market more transparent.