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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Courts - No public access to Cincinnati multiple listings service

The Cincinnati Business Courier reports this afternoon:

A bid by a group of local real estate agents to open up Cincinnati's multiple listings service to the public was quashed Wednesday.

The MLS Web site, which lists homes for sale in Greater Cincinnati and southeastern Indiana, is operated by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors. The listings had been open to the public until 2004, when the organization restricted it.

A panel of judges of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals let stand a May 2005 decision by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge David Davis to dismiss the Realtors' suit, according to published reports. The judges found the Board of Realtors was not violating its constitution by restricting access to the site.

The multiple listings service operated by the Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors, at www.nkar.com, is open to the public.

So is MIBOR, the site of the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS®, at least in part.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 24, 2006 05:53 PM
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