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Notes on real-estate web tooling, IDX compliance, and what 5,000+ active installs have taught us about shipping listings on WordPress.

MLS / IDX Resources 11 min

One website or one website per office: a guide for multi-office brokerages

Got more than one office? Then someone on your team has asked whether every office should get its own website. For most brokerages the answer is…

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laura perez · Oct 26, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 7 min

Can’t code? Just tell Claude.

How you can use MLS Import with Claude or ChatGPT to build site pages in plain words.

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 25, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 15 min

Agent pages on your brokerage site or agents’ own websites: a guide for boutique brokerages

Sooner or later, one of your agents will ask, "Can I have my own website?" Then you have a bigger choice to make. You can give…

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 25, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 12 min

Using your brokerage website to recruit agents: what to put on it

Your brokerage website can help you recruit, but only if part of it speaks to agents and not just to buyers. Agents who are thinking about…

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laura perez · Oct 24, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 11 min

How to stop paying portals for leads on your own brokerage listings

Your office lists a house. A buyer finds it on Zillow and clicks Contact Agent. Zillow often sends that inquiry to an agent who paid for…

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 23, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 15 min

Why buyers who find you still search on Zillow

A buyer meets you at an open house. She likes you and takes your card. Then she goes home and scrolls Zillow for weeks. Sound familiar?…

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 22, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 14 min

How an independent brokerage competes with Zillow and Redfin in its own town

You can't beat Zillow on traffic. In your own town, you can beat it on who answers the buyer, how well you know each street, and…

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 20, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 18 min

Brokerage website with no traffic or leads: why buyers who “look you up” never land on your site

Your agents tell buyers to look you up. Then your site gets almost no visits and almost no leads. Most of the time the buyer does…

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Benjamin Levy · Oct 19, 2026
MLS / IDX Resources 7 min

Hear about the price drop before your buyer does

MLS Import 7.2.3 adds a daily email for this. Here is what it shows, and which buyers it tells you to call first.

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laura perez · Oct 18, 2026
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