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Select PlanFlat Fee MLS Iowa: 6 photos, 3 month listing. All changes $25. Best for land and lots
No hidden costs at closing
Select PlanFlat Fee MLS Iowa: 24 photos, virtual 3D and 2D tours, 6 month listing. 10 changes included. Ideal for the savvy home-seller
No hidden costs at closing
Select PlanFlat Fee MLS Iowa: Max photos, virtual 3D/2D tours, 6 month listing. Federal & state disclosures. 10 changes free. Ideal for checking all boxes
0.75% Due at Closing
Select PlanFlat Fee MLS Iowa: Everything’s included! Max photos, virtual tours, pricing assistance, and contract review. Unlimited term and changes
3min Video: How to List Your Home on the MLS For Sale By Owner (FSBO)
2min Video: How to Change Your MLS Listing Including Adding Open Houses… All Online!
4min Video: How to Select a Settlement Agent – Attorney, Escrow, Title
3min Video: How to List Your Home on the MLS For Sale By Owner (FSBO)
2min Video: How to Change Your MLS Listing Including Adding Open Houses… All Online!
4min Video: How to Select a Settlement Agent – Attorney, Escrow, Title
Complete your listing in minutes, and it’ll be listed likely in 1 business day.
Save an average of $15,000 selling your home. 0% seller agent commission. $0 at closing.
Complete your listing paperwork, make changes to your listing, even add open houses. All online.
Documentation is the #1 FSBO concern. We’ve made filing seller disclosures simple and all online!
Software might be eating the world, but the real estate industry remains one market segment that is still operating in an antiquated world full of phone calls, faxes and manual paperwork processing. Startup Battlefield company Houzeo wants to change that, by digitizing — and simplifying — the process of selling a home
With just a few clicks, you can change anything about your listing!
In many states, we provide you with seller disclosures, making the most complex part of selling your home simple.
If your buyer has no agent, you pay no commission!
BRONZE Basic MLS Package$299 Flat Fee MLS Iowa: No hidden costs at closing Select Plan |
Best Value SILVER Stress Free MLS Package$349 Flat Fee MLS Iowa: No hidden costs at closing Select Plan |
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PLATINUM Virtual Full Service Package$399 Flat Fee MLS Iowa: 0.75% Due at Closing Select Plan |
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Photos & Virtual Tours Photos on the MLS1 |
6 Photos |
24 Photos |
Max Photos |
Max Photos |
Listing Term Option to Renew Before Expiry Included |
3 months |
6 months |
6 months |
Unlimited |
Listing Houzeo’s intelliList Listing Management System |
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Cancellation Free Cancellation Anytime |
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Commission Freedom to Specify Any Buyer’s Agent Commission2 |
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Max Exposure Listing on Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and More! |
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Listing Changes Request Changes Easily all Online |
$25 each |
10 free4 |
10 free4 |
10 free4 |
Seller Disclosures Federal & State Disclosures Provided Upon Request |
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Escrow Agent Select and Interact with your Escrow Agent3 |
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Contract Review Review contracts3 – offers, counteroffers, etc. with a broker – $499 |
Optional | Optional | ||
Price Assistance Broker Price Assistance3 – $299 |
Optional | Optional | ||
Agent Showings ShowingTime Automated Showing Service3 – $50 |
Optional | Optional | ||
Real Estate Forms All Required Forms and Contracts3 – $299 |
Optional | Optional | ||
Yard Sign Custom Yard Sign3 – $45 |
Optional | Optional | ||
Pro Photography Pro Photography & Video Tour3 – $179+ |
Optional | Optional | Optional |
1 Subject to MLS restrictions. Some MLS' may not support more than 24 photos
2 Some areas restrict the minimum commission to Buyer’s Agents to be 2%. There’s no commission paid to Houzeo or the listing agent.
3 Available for select MLS’
4 10 free changes to price, status, and property description. $25 for all additional changes.
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We cover all major Iowa MLS’ including Cedar Rapids Area AOR MLS -IA, Cedar Rapids Area AOR-IA, Des Moines AAR-IA, Des Moines Area Association of Realtor MLS-IA, Great Lakes Association MLS-IA, IOWA AOR-IA, Iowa Great Lakes Board of Realtors-IA, North East MLS-IA, Northeast Iowa Regional MLS-IA, Northwest Iowa MLS-IA, South West MLS-IA, Waterloo-Cedar Falls BOR-IA
An Iowa MLS is a database usually accessible only to real estate agents, where agents list and market properties to other agents. They can also offer a commission to other agents. In the US over 80% of properties sell with buyer agents (most of the rest are property transfers to relatives, friends, etc.). So it's extremely important you get your Iowa home on the Iowa MLS. Houzeo allows you to do that with our Iowa Flat Fee MLS service for For Sale By Owners (FSBOs).
You can choose not to, but we recommend that you do. A majority of buyers are still represented by an agent, so it's recommended that you offer the buyer's agent commission to incentivize agents to bring you buyers and help sell your home faster. Remember: with Houzeo, you've saved the seller's agent commission, which would normally be between 2% to 3% in Iowa.
Yes. Within 24 hours of when your Listing Agent emails you a copy of your MLS listing, you are required to review it and inform your agent if you see anything that might not be accurate. MLS penalizes members for any inaccurate information and you're responsible to pay this fine if incurred.
Two to 48 business hours after you've submitted your Iowa property listing on Houzeo.com and answered any additional questions your Listing Agent might have, your listing will go live on the MLS and various portals like Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com. You can check it out on Realtor.com. Note that your agent is responsible only for getting your property on the Iowa MLS. Sometimes the syndication to 3rd party websites like Zillow, Trulia, etc. may not work as intended and you might need to contact them directly.
In most cases, your listing will appear the same day or on the next business day. This is after you have submitted your listing on houzeo.com and answered any follow-up questions the Listing Agent might have. In some cases, however, it can take upto 2 business days for your property to be listed on the Iowa MLS.
Yes. All our plans include syndication to major websites, including Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Trulia, Re/Max, and many more. Note that the agent is responsible for the MLS listing only, and in rare cases, there can be issues with syndication to 3rd party sites like Zillow, Trulia, etc. In these cases, you can reach out to these sites directly to get things corrected.
Your Iowa Listing Agent will also insert your contact info in the private remarks section of the MLS listing. Buyer's agents see these remarks and will contact you directly via phone or email. All offers come directly to you. Finally, we highly recommend ShowingTime - service agents use broadly. Your Listing Agent has opened it up for you to use - Accept showing appointments on the app!
Figuring out what disclosures apply to your transaction can be stressful. Manually filling them out, scanning, and then emailing them doesn't help either. Houzeo has put in immense amounts of effort into digitizing various Federal and Iowa State disclosures to help you meet these requirements more efficiently. You only see disclosures that apply to your transaction, and Houzeo makes it much easier for you to fill them out and sign them electronically.
For any Iowa MLS listing related questions, you can reach out directly to your Listing Agent. Houzeo gives you their contact info when you select one. For anything else, see that orange help button at the bottom left? Use it to chat, email, or call our customer service team at any time! You can also schedule a complimentary consultation with us to assess if Houzeo is the right solution for you.
Login using your email, or your Facebook or Google accounts, and click "Sell a Property" on your User Dashboard. Enter your property address, select a listing plan, and Houzeo's IntelliList Listing Management System will make listing your home easy by autofilling as much info about your home as is available to us! Upload photos, select a price, and sign your MLS contracts – and your home will be on your local MLS ASAP! It's all online!
Home owners looking to sell their homes themselves (For Sale By Owners – FSBOs) find Flat Fee MLS listing as the most important tool in their arsenal. It gives them everything a listing agent can provide, but for a small flat fee. It offers MLS’ exposure while cutting out the listing side of the commission. Home sellers can work directly with the buyer’s agent or the buyer, if unrepresented. Home sellers should offer the buyer’s agent a commission - By doing this, they typically save about half of the commission but still sell their home for top dollar and rather quickly.
The Multiple listing service, also known as the MLS, is a portal that real estate brokers can access to list properties, view local real estate data, and interact with other brokers. Most people recognize the MLS as the database that all realtors use to post homes for sale. The MLS can only be accessed by local licensed realtors, who pay a membership fee. There are over 700 MLS’s in the country and each multiple listing services is geographically based. Real estate listings should only be posted on the local MLS. Realtor.com acts as a nationwide collection of all properties listed on the 700 MLS’ around the country. The only way to get your home listed on the MLS is through a licensed broker who is a member of your local MLS.
1 – Many agents set up auto notification emails for their buyers when new homes show up on the MLS. You want to be on this list.
2 – Most local MLS’ distribute to Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and several other brokerages/portals. This is important exposure for your listing.
3 – Finally, MLS allows you to offer the buyer’s agent a commission. Since most buyers are still represented by agents, a fair commission to buyer’s agents incentivizes them to show your home. This will immensely increase your chances of a quick sale!
FSBO (pronounced, “fizbo”) is real estate agent lingo for “For Sale By Owner.” FSBOs are home sellers who sell their homes directly to buyers without using real estate agents. Those sellers often put signs in their front yards that say, “For Sale By Owner,” and thus the name. If you ever want to get into a lively conversation with any real estate agent, just ask them what they think of “For Sale By Owners.” I can’t think of a subject that gets real estate agents more riled up. Many will dive into a story about a FSBO house that sold for far less than fair market value. It may have happened many years ago but their memory of it is likely to be as fresh as yesterday.
Cedar Rapids – Benton, Cedar & Linn counties
Greater Des Moines MLS (Most of Central Iowa) – Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Polk & Warren counties
Iowa City MLS – Johnson county
Iowa Great Lakes – Dickinson & Emmet counties
Mason City MLS – Floyd county
Northwest IA MLS – Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, Obrien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Sac, Sioux & Woodbury counties
Quad Cities MLS – Cedar, Clinton & Scott counties
Southwest IA MLS – Pottawattamie county
West Central MLS – Adams, Carroll, Cass, Clarke, Harrison & Page counties
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