Well - I did say that I had not had time to research the issue properly!
I take the point that MLS has been around in the USA for quite some time and is strongly regulated. However, that does not mean that it will be eventually be regulated the same way in Europe.
I would agree that there are benefits for buyers in that searching is made easy because many properties can be found in the same place.
And perhaps Wikipedia is looking at it from a European point of view but then we are in Europe and MLS is still developing here.
Overall we are not that far apart in our overall opinions but that, in my view, is not the important issue.
EyesonSpain has suggested that MLS systems increase the cost of selling (i.e. the commission charged) and this is the most important point as it would seem to be completely untrue.
I visited the EyesonSpain Forums and Articles with a view to raising the subject there.
Although I could read the article, I could not find it once I had logged in, consequently I have been unable to comment. I did notice that AMLASpain has posted (what seemed to be) a duplicate of the comments pasted here.
Perhaps someone should get EyesonSpain over here to join the discussion.
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