U.S. and France Share Property Listings

Some 300,000 U.S. Realtor® listings in Florida, California, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. have been translated into French for display at the website of the Federation Nationale de l’Immobilier (FNAIM), NAR’s association partner in France. As of mid-September, Realtors® affiliated with participating local Realtor® Association MLSs can display at their website their choice of more than 500,000 FNAIM members’ listings from throughout France. The listings have been translated from French into English.

This global property “exchange” began as a pilot program offered by Immobel Global Listing Exchange, a provider of international real estate technology and cross language marketing services. The pilot program was tested over the past two years by two Realtor® Associations in Florida (Miami and the Beaches and Sarasota) and the Paris chapter of FNAIM. Based on its success, FNAIM is expanding the Immobel Global Listing Exchange service to include all of its members’ listings in France. NAR is exploring options to expand the service in the U.S.

When brokers use the Immobel program, they can individually determine which properties they wish to make available for display and also which to display from their foreign counterparts. You can see an example of an integrated version of Immobel’s search portal on our Denver real estate website.

The ICREA Transnational Referral Service is the basis for cooperation between agents to assist clients and earn client referral fees.