Indexing Real Estate Listings: NAR, Google and the agents caught in the middle

Write-up by Matt Barker

Right now, the Internet is getting rocked by a seriously-criticized decision by the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors(R) to allow individual boards of Realtors to see Google as a “scraper” site and need that Realtors with a dynamic IDX feed block it from acquiring and publishing information from listings on Realtor.com and NAR affiliated internet sites. The criticism has caused the NAR to consider an additional search at this choice, with the segment fifteen.two.2 of the MIBOR (Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS