SwissMLS: How can the spread be expanded without burdening everyday life?

For a real estate agency, distributing a property across multiple channels allows you to multiply the number of touchpoints with potential buyers and tenants. But the more portals there are, the more complex the distribution management can become: multiple contracts, different gateways, tracking requests, and managing publications. 

The challenge is simple: how can you increase the visibility of your portfolio without multiplying the workload for your teams?

This is precisely the principle behind SwissMLS: to bring together multiple distribution channels within a single network, while allowing agencies to maintain their usual working habits.

More channels shouldn’t mean more work

In a real estate market where audiences are spread across different portals, diversifying your distribution channels means not having to rely on a single channel to generate visibility and leads.

However, for an agency, this diversification becomes less interesting if each new channel requires additional management on a daily basis.

With SwissMLS, the principle is different: a single distribution channel provides access to the entire network.

Properties are currently published on properstar.ch, dreamo.ch, urbanhome.ch and more than 100 international portals. The network is also intended to continue to grow with the integration of new partner portals.

The agency can therefore reach different audiences without having to manage each platform individually.

Continue to publish as usual

One of the goals of SwissMLS is to integrate into the existing processes of real estate professionals.

An agency using compatible business software continues to prepare and publish its listings from its usual environment. Instead of managing several separate gateways to the various portals of the network, a central SwissMLS gateway distributes the listings.

The listings are then automatically forwarded to the partner portals.

No double entry, no new publishing routine to be implemented: the number of distribution channels increases, but the process remains centralised.

For agencies that do not use compatible business software, manual publishing is also still possible.

One contract for the entire network

Simplification is not only about publishing advertisements.

SwissMLS also relies on a single publishing contract and a common SwissMLS pricing model that provides access to the network.

The agency therefore does not need to enter into separate contracts with each of the portals in order to benefit from multi-portal distribution.

This centralisation makes the distribution strategy more transparent: rather than adding independent solutions, SwissMLS is a structured distribution channel that can complement the agency’s other marketing choices.

And the leads? They also remain centralised

Expanding its reach can generate more entry points for leads. Again, the goal is not to add complexity to the business follow-up process.

When a buyer or renter submits a request from one of the network portals, it is sent to the agency via email and/or directly into their business software, depending on their configuration.

Requests from the network are grouped under the SwissMLS identifier. This gives the agency a single source for tracking leads generated through this channel, rather than having to manage requests separately from each partner portal.

For sales teams, the process of handling requests can therefore remain the same.

Expanding its reach while maintaining control

The question is not necessarily to publish everywhere, but to build a sufficiently broad and diverse distribution strategy without making its management disproportionate.

SwissMLS allows you to achieve both objectives: increase the number of channels on which your properties are visible while centralising their publication and the requests that result from it.

This is the logic that enables more than 2,000 real estate agencies to use SwissMLS as a distribution channel today.

In a market where the distribution of listings is becoming an increasingly strategic issue, operational simplicity is as important as reach. With SwissMLS, expanding your visibility does not necessarily mean adding another layer of work to your daily routine.

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