Generally Californa markets have the tightest inventories right now. Part of the reason is that competition among buyers is keen because they know prices are more affordable now than they will be in a year or so. However, prices aren’t high enough to motivate sellers.

Steve

Listings arrive at franchise websites through two methods. Sometimes they are hand entered onto the franchise websites by agents or brokers. At other times, there is a feed from the MLS to the franchise website (These feeds can be either direct from the MLS or through a service like Listhub who aggregates MLS data for some franchises). Suffice it to say that like publisher websites, the franchisor websites sit downstream of the MLS and have some of the same challenges that face publishers when the data is not direct from the MLS.

Hence, in terms of ranking for accuracy and freshness of the data, the cascade would be broker websites, franchise websites, then publisher websites.