Stellar MLS is formed to promote, establish, foster, develop and preserve the highest standards of the real estate profession in Florida, through the operation of the Stellar MLS. A Multiple Listing Service is a facility for the orderly correlation and dissemination of listing information so Participants may better serve their clients and customers and the public; a means of enhancing cooperation among Participants; a means by which information is accumulated and disseminated to enable authorized Participants to prepare appraisals, analyses, and other valuations of real property for bona fide clients and customers; and a means by which Participants engaging in real estate appraisal contribute to common databases. Cooperation is the obligation to share information on listed property and to make property available to other brokers for showing to prospective purchasers and tenants when it is in the best interests of their client(s). (Updated 8/2024)