Consumer sites such as Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, Realtor. com, and others have a

direct feed from the MLS. Once your home is listed on the MLS, these pull the information from the MLS and your listing is posted on their websites. In order to get on the MLS, you have to be a licensed broker. Listed Simply uses our brokerage license to list you on the MLS. Our company name and the broker of record will appear on your listing, however, your listing type with us is MLS only as opposed to the traditional "Exclusive Right To Sell" agreements agents usually have.

Where is your contact information? Since these sites are for-profit, they display advertisers and their own agents’ information. Most sites do not put the owner’s information on the listing unless you created your own For Sale By Owner Listing on their website directly.
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Here is a breakdown of how it works
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Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com:

These sites add the listing agents information (the company that listed your property on the MLS) along with other agents who are advertising to show up on your listing, this is how these sites make money.
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Redfin:

Redfin will show its own agents on your listing. In most cases,

even the listing agent of your property doesn’t appear on this website as

Redfin is trying to get all the buyer inquiries to go to their agents.
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Century 12, Coldwell Banker, and other brokerages:

These brokerage sites also pull the listing from the MLS once they are listed. Yes, your home is getting more exposure by being on all sites, but these brokerage sites display the contact information for their agents.
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Summary:

Being on all consumer sites is great because you get the most exposure. Don’t worry too much about not having your contact information on these sites because a majority of the time, consumers find properties on these sites call their buyer agent and their buyer agent will go on the MLS for more information where the best contact methods are listed. Remember, buyer agent commission is paid by the seller so over 94% of buyers use a buyer agent as they are free to the buyer.

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