I suppose I’m a little biased. After all, I did choose it, but I have to say that this website now has the slickest MLS listings search tool available to Saskatoon home buyers. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do. I’d love to hear what you think.
Located under the “Saskatoon Homes” button on the navigation bar, this powerful home search tool provides access to Saskatoon MLS listings represented by all local real estate brands. Regular data feeds typically result in new listings appearing here within hours of hitting the agent MLS, and well ahead of realtor.ca.
You’ll have options to search by selecting neighbourhoods, by drawing out a preferred geographic area on a Google map, by address, or by known MLS numbers.
Search results are delivered quickly and with a number of viewing options. Results can be easily sorted to display by price, by listing date, or even by house size.
Without a doubt, the detailed listing view provides more information than you’ll be accustomed to seeing on any other public home search site, including realtor.ca.
The search tool works and provides full details on MLS listings with no registration required, but there is additional functionality if you don’t mind throwing your name and email address into a registration form. You have my promise that we won’t treat your registration as an invitation to spam you. If you need something, just ask. Otherwise, we’ll leave you to browse on your own.
Registered users can save searches to a private portfolio so they don’t have to be executed each time they return, but rather, selected from their list of searches. They can save their favorite properties to separate lists, rank listings using a star rating system, make notes on listings, and opt in or out of email notifications on changes to their saved searches (price changes and new listings).
There’s an awesome mobile component for iPhone and Android devices. Rumour has it that a Blackberry version is in the works.
Check out one of the quick search links that reside on the side bar under “Search Saskatoon MLS Listings” or customize your perfect search here.
Hats off to MyRealPage who developed and market the tool. Technical Director Bill Skrypnyk, along with his crew of top-notch programmers have been busting their butts to bring some huge improvements to the product over the past few months.
I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions. All of my contact info is here. Please feel free to call or email.
Norm Fisher
Royal LePage Saskatoon Real Estate
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Perhaps (biased), but rightly so — this is a very slick tool! (don’t get me started with realtor.ca…) This is really well thought-out, and quite comprehensive (I really like the star-ranking system). The only suggestion I would offer is the ability to set a pre-defined sort preference, ie: “Price: high-low” (for example). Kudos!
I loved this search tool- it gave great information about the property (not found elsewhere) and the search/sort parameters were very helpful. It was also easy to send several ranked “favorites” to friends and family so they could take a gander too.
Thanks for the feedback Jason. Just to be clear, when you say, “pre-defined sort preference” do you simply mean in advance of executing the search, as opposed to having to re-sort after the search is executed?
“don’t get me started with realtor.ca”
It’s almost like someone intentionally planned to make it really bad. Collectively, as an industry, I think we’re kicking in more than 1.5 million a year to run that nut house. You’d think you could get a decent search site for that.
Crikey, thanks. I’ve been amazed at the speed at which MyRealPage has been updating this software. Since you were using it they’ve added a number of different “views” for search results and “back button support” for most modern browsers. You may have been able to use your back button if you were using IE8 but the lack of it for some browsers was a bit of a weak spot.
Norm, probably both; for non-signups I could see where a pre-sort option in advance of executing the search would save a step or two. For those that do sign-up, a permanent ’setting’ where you could pre-define a default would be handy (and of course, one can always override it, too).
“It’s almost like someone intentionally planned to make it really bad… I think we’re kicking in more than 1.5 million a year to run that nut house.” …!!! :O
Good thoughts Jason. Maybe it could even be accomplished with a cookie. The most recent sort selection becomes the default for future sessions, or something like that.
Thank you again.
Norm, cookies work (np!) Quick question… I didn’t have any luck with the ‘land size’ criteria (tried every land size option, but the search always returned “No listings found”); is this a result of missing or inaccurate MLS data or is this feature perhaps just not fully implemented yet? (I found a handful of acreages that only came up under ‘Single Family Dwelling’ for some reason, and figured land size would be a good way to expand/filter the results).
Jason,
Hmmm. I hadn’t noticed that as I have my default area map set to only display areas within Saskatoon but I can see that there is some issue there. I’ll have to run it by Bill to see if it can be addressed. Thanks for bringing it forward.
Norm,
great job. I like it, replacing realtor.ca bookmark with yours.
Thanks George. I wish I could take the credit.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/br02248.html
Interesting insolvency numbers from StatsCan today:
• Total insolvencies (business and personal) up 52% YOY nationally
If I’m reading it right, the provincial breakdown of insolvency increases is even more interesting:
• ON up 54% YOY
• BC up 73%
• AB up 87%
• SK up 99%
Only NWT and Nunavut saw a higher % increase YOY. Gah.
Hey Crikey,
I copied your comment over here as the discussion was just getting underway on insolvency.