What is IDX?
- What is IDX?
- IDX is listings on your website
- Why a realtor needs it
- How it looks on a Panda site
- Get an IDX website
- FAQ
- IDX is not AIDX
IDX is Internet Data Exchange. It is the agreement that lets a realtor or broker show MLS listings on their own website.
Without IDX, your site can talk about you. With IDX, a buyer can search homes on your domain: city, price, beds, and open a listing with photos and facts, the same inventory your MLS allows you to display.
That search lives on your site. You are not sending the buyer to a public MLS page to look at inventory.
IDX is listings on your website
MLS is the shared database. IDX is the feed that brings approved listings from that database onto a site you control.
A visitor lands on your site, uses property search, and opens a listing. The listing page is still your brand: your header, your contact path, your domain.
An IDX website for realtors is a site built around that search, not a brochure with a link out.
Why a realtor needs it
Buyers already search listings online. If the only search you offer is “call me,” they leave.
IDX keeps the search on your site so the session stays with you. They can filter, open a property, and reach you from that page.
This post is the definition. The longer case for traffic and professionalism is already covered in our older piece on IDX website benefits. Here the point is simpler: IDX is how MLS inventory appears on your website.
How it looks on a Panda site
On a Panda site, IDX shows up as property search and listing pages.
Search is a results view: filters, a grid or list of homes, then a listing with photos, price, beds, and the facts the MLS allows. Those two screens are the product of IDX. They are not a live wire to the MLS. Workers sync listing data on a schedule. Treat search as current, not as a second-by-second SLA.
Property search results for Brickell.
Search in Aventura with the condos filter.
Listing detail for Baccarat Residences.
Get an IDX website
If you want this search on a site of your own, request an IDX demo. Pricing is on its own page.
FAQ
What does IDX stand for?
Internet Data Exchange. It is the agreement that lets a realtor show MLS listings on their own website.
Is IDX the same as MLS?
No. MLS is the shared listing database. IDX is the feed and the rules that put approved listings on a site you control.
Why put IDX search on your own site?
So a buyer can search homes on your domain instead of leaving for a public MLS page. They filter, open a listing, and reach you from that page.
Is the search live, second by second?
No. Workers sync listing data on a schedule. Treat it as current, not as a live SLA.
IDX is not AIDX
IDX is the listing feed. AIDX is the AI layer on top of that feed. Different question. Different page.
