The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

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Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2009
Volume: 99
Issue: 5
Pages: 1878-98

Score contribution per author:

2.681 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We compare house sales on a For-Sale-By-Owner (FSBO) platform to Multiple Listing Service (MLS) sales and find that FSBO precommission prices are no lower, but that FSBO is less effective in terms of time to sell and probability of a sale. We do not find direct evidence of the importance of network size as a reason for the lower effectiveness of FSBO. We do find evidence of endogenous

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RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:99:y:2009:i:5:p:1878-98
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
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2026-01-26