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The Baron & Chestney Real Estate Map-Based search page enables you to search the four MLS's (Multiple Listing Services) that represent the 10 San Francisco Bay Area counties that are covered by Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount brokers. The counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz (as well as Monterey) are covered by the RE InfoLink MLS. The counties of Alameda and Contra Costa are covered by the MaxEbrdi MLS. The counties of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano are covered by the BAREIS MLS. Lastly, the self-contained city and county of San Francisco is covered by its own MLS, the SFARMLS. Traditionally, the different MLS services in the San Francisco bay area have attempted to remain independent of each other, just as the local boards of realtors have. However, as is the case with so many aspects of the real estate industry, the changing needs and demands of consumers, as well as the constant advances in technology, have been pressuring the industry to change and to make data more readily accessible to home buyers and home sellers. Just as the discount real estate brokerage movement has begun to gradually pressure the industry to change by exposing (and offering an alternative to) the "smoke and mirrors" real estate industry "parlor tricks" that have perpetuated the old 6% real estate commission model for decades by keeping the public uneducated, in the dark, and bamboozled, there has also been recent cooperation among MLS services and local real estate boards towards making MLS data available to the public. In the old days, the real estate industry was "protected" by real estate agents and real estate brokers controlling the MLS data. However, the demands of a more educated, more demanding public for this data, along with the technology to now make it readily available, has brought about positive change in the real estate industry. Most MLS sites now have a "public access" search area, which allows for searching of the MLS listings by non-licensed people. Keep in mind that certain confidential information about each real estate listing will of course remain available only to licensed realtors (names of owners, phone numbers, gate codes, alarm codes, etc.), which is entirly reasonable and understandable for security, safety, and privacy purposes, of course. However, using the search features on this page, any member of the public can search, for free, all of the active listings of homes for sale currently on the MLS, throughout the entire San Francisco bay area. (For information about PENDING listings, or information about CONTINGENT listings, or information about SOLD listings, please contact a Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount realtor, as this information is NOT public on the MLS systems, either). One of our discount real estate brokers will be happy to assist you, however.

Instructions:

Just go ahead and search away! Have fun using this amazing map-based search feature. Please use the appropriate MLS for the desired San Francisco bay area county (and/or city) that you wish to search. If you do not know the county in which a particular city is located, please scroll down to the bottom of the page to reference a convenient and complete list of all of the cities that Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount brokers cover in the San Francisco Bay Area (or districts / neighborhoods, in the case of San Francisco City and County proper), as well as their corresponding counties. The PHOTO GALLERY section of our website features a description (and lots of photos) of each county, city, town, district, neighborhood, and unincorporated area that Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount realtors cover, for your information and convenience. These search features are map-based, utilizing the latest and greatest in search technology. We hope you enjoy your search experience. Again, please do not hesitate to contact a Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount real estate broker for personalized, professional assistance, especially as you begin to narrow your search, and whenever you wish to go visit some of the listings in person, with a Baron & Chestney discount broker.

Note: Currently, only the San Francisco MLS has NOT provided map-based search compatability. This is expected to change by October of 2009. The "plan" is for all four San Francisco Bay Area Multiple Listing Services to "cooperate" in the way they share data. While not quite so lofty a goal as "world peace", we will still be waiting with appropriately curbed enthusiasm to see if and when this far-reaching goal is successfully implemented... it's not so much a technical issue as it is a red tape administrative issue... So, for the meantime, we have provided search capability in San Francisco that is not map-based. If and when it becomes available, we will include it along with the other three MLS's on this page of our site. One last note -- San Francisco MLS data can still be searched in a map-based fashion through the OTHER three MLS's. For example, when we take a listing of a home for sale, we post the listing on all four bay area MLS sites (as well as many other websites as well). While this may not represent a complete MAP-BASED search inventory of what is currently available in San Francisco, a search of the SFARMLS itself WILL represent a COMPLETE inventory of the homes currently for sale in San Francisco, and access through the other three MLS seaches will allow access to the great majority of such listings in a map-based format. When in doubt, if there is any information that you need and for whatever reason seem to be having difficulty finding, simply contact a Baron & Chestney Real Estate discount realtor and we will be happy to assist.

Now, go find YOUR castle, and then call Baron & Chestney Real Estate to arrange for one of our discount realty brokers to help you visit it and then acquire it!

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