Have a look at what hit our email in the past couple months, and the companies heavily marketing “pocket listings”, “off market” property, or “not on MLS” opportunities.

You, the buyer, would probably like to know about these opportunities, wouldn’t you? Well…you can’t. Not until these brokerages wake up and join the year 2013, move beyond “private” or internal email as the method of choice for delivering these opportunities, look to social networks for some guidance as to where the buying (and selling) public lives, and get with the program!

Pacific Union, McGuire, Zephyr, Paragon, TRI Coldwell Banker, Vanguard, Sotheby’s, the list goes on and on…you ALL have pocket listings, and you’re all marketing them “privately”, so let’s make an effort to encourage each other to participate in an alternative marketplace to bring these opportunities to your fellow agents and the public, rather than continuing to shove this growing marketplace under the massive bureaucratic rug that is our National, State, and Local Association of Realtors. And for heaven’s sake, quit throwing your colleagues (Climb Real Estate) under the bus for taking a step in the right direction! (You know who you are.) It’s high time an alternative to the MLS takes shape, and the opportunity is right here and now.

[The same properties shown above, with links to the site:]
–Dominican Estate [Decker Bullock/Sothebys]
–53 Clifford Terrace [Vanguard]
–1299 Bush Street [Vanguard]
–219 Brannan [Vanguard]
–524 Roosevelt [Vanguard]
–2876 25th Ave [Vanguard]
–466 Hill [Vanguard]
–2509 Polk [McGuire]
–855 Folsom [McGuire]
–2094 Bush [McGuire]
–66 Parker [McGuire]
–2200 Pacific [McGuire]
–171 Caznea [McGuire]
–615 Buena Vista West [Sotheby’s]
–2245 Francisco [Sotheby’s]
–29 Oak Springs [Sotheby’s]
–26 Sanford Lane [Pacific Union]
–1200 Laguna [Zephyr]
–1278 Stanyan [Zephyr]
–50 Lansing [Zephyr]
–Nob Hill Secret address [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–2325 Divisadero [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–2220 Sacramento [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–465 10th St [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–6 Emlin, Kentfield [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–595 12th Ave [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–850 Powell [TRI Coldwell Banker]
–287 Mangels [Barbegelata]

[Editor’s Note: Some of these properties were placed on PocketListings.net, and others have since hit MLS and are now sold, but they did land in our email a very short time ago. You can expect some of these links to be killed by day’s end, due to panicking brokerages.
Finally, if you’d like to be alerted when these opportunities hit our inbox, drop us a line, and we’ll figure out a way to get them to you.]

–PocketListings.net: How To Tutorial [blog.pocketlistings.net]
–Climb Real Estate, PocketListings.net Join To Bring You More Buying And Selling Opportunity [theFrontSteps]
–It’s not listed, but it’s definitely for sale [New York Times]
–Remaking Real Estate, Again [SF Gate]