There may be a change heading our way. It is my belief that we have large regional MLS’s soon. Perhaps 9 or 10 Nationally. The likely projection date for such a transition will be a coupe years off however, as there would be a lot of work to do to set something like this up. I think the new uniform format will provide a way the neighborhood searches will be more likely.

Currently , California is looking too absorb all the states local MLS and create one state wide. They have a great influence in NAR and once the model is created , it likely will be the new national standard and smaller states will group together in larger regions.