Facebook IDX policies
The following real estate boards prohibit IDX search and display on Facebook.
In some cases, as noted below, an agent’s or brokerage’s own Featured Listings may be displayed, but IDX search may not be added to the Facebook page.
If your board limits the use of Facebook in your real estate business, we encourage you to ask them to reconsider their policies for social media.
- Alabama
- Gulf Coast MLS (Featured Listings allowed)
- Arizona
- Yuma Association of REALTORS®
- California
- Central Coast Regional MLS (Featured Listings allowed)
- Colorado
- REcolorado® (Metrolist) – Permitted, but only with MLS approval of the Facebook IDX URL in writing before IDX goes live on the Facebook business page.
- Florida
- Ocala Marion Association of REALTORS®
- Georgia
- First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS)
- Illinois
- Rockford Area Association of REALTORS® (RAAR)
- Iowa
- Northeast Iowa Regional Board of REALTORS® (NEIRBR)
- Louisiana
- NOMAR / GSREIN (might be possible with special authorization from the board)
- Maine
- Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. (MaineListings / MREIS / StatewideMLS)
- Framing IDX into Facebook would be subject to a $1,000 fine by MREIS, per MREIS Rules and Regulations
- Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. (MaineListings / MREIS / StatewideMLS)
- Minnesota
- Regional MLS (NorthstarMLS®) (Featured Listings allowed)
- New Hampshire
- Northern New England Real Estate Network (NNEREN)
- New York
- Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)
- Both IDX on social media, and the ability for consumers to “share” listings from an IDX website onto a social media site, are prohibited.
- Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)
- North Carolina
- Fayetteville Regional Association of REALTORS®
- Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS® (might be possible with special authorization from the board)
- Ontario
- CREA for Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- REALTORS® Association of York & Adams Counties (Featured Listings allowed)
- Tennessee
- Upper Cumberland Association of REALTORS®
- Texas
- North Texas Real Estate Information Systems (NTREIS) (Featured Listings allowed)
- Vermont
- Northern New England Real Estate Network (NNEREN)
- Washington
- Northwest MLS
- Wisconsin
- MetroMLS
