What is the Vancouver MLS®?

The Vancouver MLS® serves the Vancouver area and its surrounding suburbs. It is a database of real estate for sale used by Realtors. The Vancouver MLS®  is directly accessible to real estate agents and those with professional affiliations. The properties in the Vancouver MLS®  are provided by brokers who are members of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) and registered members of the MLS®  system.

The Vancouver MLS®  is most widely used to locate residential properties on the market. These include attached and detached single-family homes, multi-unit residences, mobile homes, rentals and vacant land in Vancouver and nearby suburbs. Commercial property listed on the Vancouver MLS®  includes office, retail, industrial, mixed use and other real estate zoned for business space.

In addition to storing listing information, the Vancouver MLS®  database has a search engine function. This is used to find MLS®  listings that fit specific search parameters. Parameters are set by the individual user and results are displayed in list form with links to more details on separate property pages. The search engine functionality is accessible to registered members online. Non-member users (such as home buyers) are able to access Vancouver MLS®  information through certain real estate websites that pull data from the Vancouver MLS® . To comply with MLS®  regulations, any real estate site that provides data from the Multiple Listing Service is required to uphold strict user registration policies.
 

What type of information do Vancouver MLS®  contain?

The amount of information provided by a particular Vancouver MLS®  listing will vary depending on what the listing agent enters for the individual property. Price, address, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and listing status are considered essential data that is almost always included in an MLS listing. Additional details found in Vancouver MLS® listings include, but are not limited to: