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The professional who lists a property publishes it in the system with complete, verified data.
All members can present the property to their clients, under clear cooperation rules.
Remuneration is shared between listing and selling agents under terms defined upfront.
Transaction history feeds reliable statistics that benefit the whole market.
More business opportunities, access to the whole market’s supply, and rules that protect listing work.
Wider property exposure, prices based on real data, and accredited, accountable professionals.
Reliable statistics, less duplicated or outdated information, and healthy service-based competition.
The house on Rua das Flores, told twice.
Same house, same family, same month of market. The only difference is whether the professionals involved share information under common rules.
Sofia wants to sell her three-bedroom flat on Rua das Flores. She gets three wildly different valuations, picks the highest and signs — with no idea what the flats next door actually sold for.
Sofia sees the real transaction history of her own street. Price becomes an informed decision rather than a bet, and she understands why that number is the right one.
The property is visible inside one company’s portfolio. Anyone searching that area through another agency never finds out it exists.
The moment it is listed, the property becomes visible to every accredited agent — and through them, to every buyer they represent.
Rita runs the agency that took the listing. Cooperation with other companies depends on who knows whom: every share is negotiated case by case, with no common rules and no track record.
Rita can promise Sofia reach that doesn’t depend on personal contacts: the whole accredited market, under the same sharing rules for every company.
Nuno represents buyers. He calls agencies one by one to find out what exists, and every company answers with its own rules on viewings and compensation.
Nuno sees all accredited supply in one place, with the sharing terms next to each property. He knows what he can offer his clients before leaving the office.
Miguel is looking in exactly that area and works with Nuno. He views six houses that don’t fit — Sofia’s isn’t among them, because Nuno never knew it existed.
Nuno finds Sofia’s house the next day and books a viewing with Rita, under clear rules on who represents whom and how the fee is split.
Ana searches on her own. She finds the same property three times at three prices, and never knows whether the person answering the phone represents her or the seller. She is deciding on the biggest purchase of her life on blind trust.
Ana sees one verified record per property, and understands that the agency answering the phone represents the seller. She can proceed informed, or choose someone to represent her — and check any company’s accreditation before signing.
Two weeks later an offer arrives, well below asking. With no reliable comparables, the discussion is an exchange of opinions.
Rita and Nuno negotiate from the same data. The conversation shifts to terms and timing instead of who is right.
The house has been reduced twice and is still on the market. Sofia has changed agency and started over.
The deed is signed. Two professionals were paid for the work they did, and neither had to choose between cooperating and getting paid.
An MLS forces no one to share clients. It creates the conditions in which sharing is the most profitable decision — for the listing side, the selling side and the consumer.
Which side of the story do you want to be on?
Agents and companies build the system. Consumers use it to know who they are working with.
MLS Glossary
The language of real-estate cooperation, without the jargon.What changes on each side of the table
Nine different interests, aligned by the same rules.Your own portfolio stops being the limit of what you can show. Every property a colleague shares is an opportunity for you — and every listing of yours gets the whole market working on it.
Any company, of any size, works inventory with the same information and the same rules. Cooperation becomes a process instead of a favour between acquaintances.
Signing with one professional no longer means being restricted to one company. One contract, one point of contact — and the entire accredited network working on your property.
You no longer depend on how many agencies you can visit. An accredited professional shows you everything that is for sale, not just their own company’s portfolio.
Instead of appointing one agency at a time, the development enters the market with the whole member network selling it, on the same terms.
Valuation stops depending on listings and asking prices. The MLS records what was actually transacted, when and on what terms.
Aggregated data on supply, demand and time to sell, collected at the moment of transaction rather than by later survey.
The information discipline applied to sales applies to lettings: verified supply, written terms and an accountable professional on each side.
Instead of scraping listings from dozens of origins, portals consume a record maintained by whoever holds the listing — and the responsibility for it.
Fair concerns, direct answers
No. The contractual relationship stays yours. What you share is the property information and part of the fee, in exchange for access to every buyer in the market.
Half of a deal closed in six weeks is worth more than all of a property that sat six months and ended up with another agency.
Information about what exists is on its way to being available to everyone. The advantage becomes service, local knowledge and trust — not secrecy.
And it works — which is exactly the proof that the model delivers. A market-wide MLS extends that same mechanism beyond the network, opening access to inventory and buyers that stay out of reach today.
What enters the MLS is the property information you already advertise publicly, plus the terms of cooperation. Your client book, your margins and your commercial history are neither shared nor accessible.
It is a single data entry that replaces re-posting the same property to several portals and partners. The cost is measured against the time spent duplicating today — and against the deals that never happen for lack of access.
The cooperation rules protect the mandate: contact with the seller goes through whoever listed the property, and bypassing that rule is a disciplinary offence. Sharing gives access to the property, not to your client.
In the association’s decisions each segment — small, medium and large — has an equal vote, and none decides alone. And it is the small agency that gains most from access to the whole market’s inventory.
An independent non-profit association. We set the rules of real-estate cooperation in Portugal and publicly verify who follows them.