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HomePages beefs up property listingsPartners with 12 MLSs nationwideTuesday, June 20, 2006Inman NewsHomePages.com, a consumer real estate portal operated by HouseValues Inc., has beefed up its property listings inventory through new partnerships with 12 multiple listing services nationwide, HouseValues Inc. announced today.The 12 additional MLSs include: Cape Cod & Islands MLS; Cape Coral MLS, Ft. Myers, Fla.; Ft. Myers MLS, Ft. Myers, Fla.; Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, Las Vegas; Intermountain, Boise, Idaho; IRES, Boulder, Colo.; Louisville MLS, Louisville, Ky.; MARIS, St. Louis, Mo.; Monmouth County Association of Realtors, N.J./N.Y.; MRMLS, Los Angeles; Northern New England Real Estate Network; and SABOR, San Antonio, Texas.Launched in late 2005, HomePages combines home-finding tools and related detailed information about buying and selling homes. HouseValues Inc. provides marketing and lead generation services to the real estate and mortgage industries.

If your MLS signed upped with HomePages, do you get free leads? After all, you are paying MLS dues aren’t you?

HouseValues found out the hard way that in order to get fresh data they need to pay local mls's for it.

Now the question is: should you pay them for leads or advertsing generated by your own data?

Since the participants control these information sources they need to decide what they want to do and when enough is enough. Next will be Zillow.

Yes may we have another helping of Spam.