Abstract: A method of automating the communication of property value information including the steps of storing a property owner's record in a storage means, associating a sales entity with the property owner record, creating a property owner profile for the property owner record, establishing a connection to a property sales database, establishing a preselected search criteria based on the property owner profile, querying the property sales database for at least one sales transaction meeting the preselected search criteria, retrieving the sales transactions returned by the query, establishing a predetermined address associated with the property owner record, reporting at least one predetermined parameter of the sales transactions to the predetermined address, and establishing a management system to oversee and ensure that the property value information is published over a repeating and consistent block of time whereby the sales entity enhances its perceived knowledge, reputation and visibility by providing consistent

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of searching a plurality of MLS databases including accessing a plurality of MLS databases, resolving an array of schemas from the plurality of MLS databases, establishing a first array of common fields from the array of schemas, establishing a second array of distinct fields from the array of schemas, displaying a search query interface including the first array of common fields and the second array of distinct fields, selecting a root database from the plurality of MLS databases, selecting at least one child database from the plurality of MLS databases, and returning a search query against the root database wherein data from the at least one child database is only included for common fields selected in the search query interface.