The Orange County CA. MLS called SoCalMLS recently merged with the MLS that services much of the San Fernando Valley, called CrisNet MLS.  This merger in February now makes the SoCal MLS the second largest MLS in the country.  Currently there are over 13,140 attached condos listed for sale on SoCalMLS and 31,250 detached homes listed for sale, with over 50,000 licensed members comprising of real estate agents and brokers, mortgage lenders, appraisers and other support professionals.  SoCal MLS uses the TEMPO MLS system software technology that is owned and operated by First American MLS solutions, a division of First American Title Company.

This additional size, now gives SoCal MLS much more clout and capital funds in which to acquire additional technology services for it 's Realtor members and the Public. Some of the many important and useful technologies added to the SoCal MLS in the past several years have been:
  • MongoFAX - turns ordinary FAX machines into PDF scanners.
  • eNeighborhoods - provides neighborhood and school information to Orange County home buyers and Realtors.
  • MLS Alliance - allows Orange County Realtors to perform home searches for their buyer clients throughout the greater southern California region.
  • Multiple photos which allow Listing Agents to add up to 30 photos to every property they list for sale.
  • Home Video tours - Listing Agents can add Video Tours from most every 3rd party vendor, to any listing in SoCal MLS. 
  • Aerial Maps - shows Google Earth type satellite images of most every property listed for sale.
  • Lightning CMA Plus - a sophisticated software service that assists Listing Agents in provided Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) for their clients.
  • Tempo Client Gateway - a web based home searching, capture, sorting and comment Internet software service that let's Realtors to set up an automated search  for their buyer clients, that only captures new listings of homes for sale that meet the buyers pre-defined criteria (ie: price, size, location etc).  This service saves these new listings on a custom website and allows to Buyers to Sort,  Prioritize and even comment on each listing..  One of the more powerful tools added to Tempo for the use of prospective home buyers.
There are many new and exciting technologies in the development pipeline scheduled to be added to the Tempo MLS system for this year and next, which will make SoCal MLS one of the most robust and use friendly MLS in the Nation. 

If you would like to search for any home for sale on the made for Public version of the  SoCal MLS system, please visit our website at:  Orange County CA. MLS