Internet Data Exchange (IDX)
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What is IDX
Internet Data Exchange (IDX) is a system where brokers give each other permission to display their listings on each other’s web sites. Brokers who participate in IDX can display all of each other’s active listings. If you choose not to participate, no other broker will be permitted to display your listings. You can include your listings in the IDX database without even having your own web site.
Increasingly, consumers are looking to the Internet for information about real estate for sale. When a broker participates in data exchange with other brokers, their web sites are populated with the listings of other brokers and provide an extensive database of properties for consumers to view.
How does my firm participate in IDX?
Being an IDX participant just means that you give all other IDX participants permission to display your active listings on their web sites according to the IDX Rules and Regulations. In so doing, you obtain permission from all other IDX Participants to display their active listings. You give permission and get permission in the same act. You don’t need to have a web site yourself. IDX is an automatic opt-in program. You must affirmatively opt out of IDX by providing a written request to VREIN if you choose not to participate. If you do not opt out, you will automatically become a participant.
Add IDX data to your web site (optional)
You don’t have to have a web site to be an IDX Participant. But to take maximum advantage of the program, you will want one. To put IDX data on your web site, you have to take four steps:
- Sign VREIN's “Access to Internet Data Exchange Participation Agreement and Contract. To sign up for IDX, download an IDX Application Packet here.
- Develop a web site
- Incorporate the IDX data into your web site.
- Obey the IDX Rules and Regulations and the policy statements.
Download an IDX Technical Packet
Fees
There is a $110 annual fee to receive a data feed or a real time link from MarketLinx.