Should an MLS provide street addresses of listed properties for IDX purposes, due to liability concerns?
If the subject property is vacant and is noted as such on an IDX website, and if the house is broken into and robbed or damaged, is the Realtor or their Broker liable? The argument was presented that withholding the street address would offer some line of legal defense, as opposed to a situation where the Realtor included the address in the MLS listing, knowing or expecting that information to be scraped by Realtor.com, Homes.com, Google, Yahoo, etc. Before you say, Thats a ridiculous lawsuit, one member present related that she had to defend herself against a complaint filed with the PA Real Estate Commission for false advertising, filed by a client who found that his listing on Homes.com did not reflect two price reductions that he had authorized. His position was that he was harmed because the advertising on Homes.com did not accurately reflect the correct price. The defendant took the position that she did not know, nor did she have any control over the IDX advertising on Homes.com
