bridgeMLS is the multiple listing service for much of Alameda County, eastern Contra Costa County, and Tuolumne County.
It is owned by the Bridge Association of REALTORS and was called East Bay Regional Data until it took the bridgeMLS name in April 2017.
bridgeMLS spent its first stretch as East Bay Regional Data, Inc. (EBRD), the central listing database for brokers and agents working Alameda and Contra Costa counties. It took the bridgeMLS name effective April 25, 2017, on what that announcement calls a "more than 25-year history," which places its founding in 1992 or earlier. Same organization, same lineage, so an old vendor form that still says EBRD is pointing at this MLS.
Ownership sits with one trade association: the Oakland|Berkeley Association of REALTORS, now branded the Bridge Association of REALTORS, headquartered at 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600, in Berkeley. bridgeMLS provides MLS service to three associations, in the order they joined. The Bridge Association of REALTORS in Berkeley is the owner.
The Delta Association of REALTORS in Antioch came second. The Tuolumne County Association of REALTORS joined as the third serviced association in November 2023. That announcement put bridgeMLS at nearly 4,000 subscribers.
Governance runs on two tracks. bridgeMLS has its own MLS Board of Directors and its own MLS Committee, separate from the association-level board at the Bridge Association of REALTORS. If you hold a California license inside the footprint, bridgeMLS is the system you search and enter your own listings into every working day. If you're a member of the public, it's the source sitting behind the East Bay listings you see on agent websites, which is exactly why getting that feed onto your own domain is worth the paperwork.
It is not Bridge Interactive, the Zillow Group data-distribution company, and it is not a joint venture of Bay East and CCAR. Those two associations run their own MLSs, and all three share listing data through the NorCal MLS Alliance, a reciprocal data share rather than a merger.
bridgeMLS runs on Paragon, so vendor credentials for a listing feed come through Property Information Central at paragonapi.com once bridgeMLS approves your request.
MLS Import takes that RESO Web API feed and syncs it hourly into native, indexable WordPress posts on your own domain, no iframe and no vendor subdomain, at $49 a month after a 30-day free trial.
bridgeMLS announced Ardi on February 16, 2026, for a March 2 launch. It was built by VoiceFlip, it is running on bridgemls.com today, and it isn't parked on one support page.
It sits in three places subscribers already spend their day: bridgemls.com, connectMLS, and Paragon. It handles the routine questions, listing searches, training events, MLS rules, and bridgeMLS describes it as complementing the existing support team during business hours rather than replacing it.
When a mapping question comes up at 9pm on a Friday, what matters is which door is open. bridgeMLS support answers during business hours at 925.363.2333 and [email protected], and Ardi covers the hours around them for questions about listing searches, training events, and MLS rules.
A vendor data-access request still goes to that support address. For the rule questions that surface mid-build, though, Ardi is the channel that answers at the hour you are actually working.
Since November 19, 2025, bridgeMLS has told subscribers to choose their own system, under the banner "Your MLS Platform, Your Choice, Your Tools!" Its own wording is "the flexibility to choose between connectMLS, Paragon, or even both platforms."
Paragon is the primary platform. connectMLS is the second option, described on bridgeMLS's own membership products page as the system REALTORS use to locate and input listings across the San Francisco Bay Area, one that "dates back to 1997."
Neither platform is a legacy system on its way out. bridgeMLS posted connectMLS release notes for version 6.5.10 on March 21, 2026, listing interface changes already implemented, and the Paragon items further down are dated within weeks of it.
For your import, the practical effect is small but worth knowing before you write onboarding docs: two agents in the same office may be looking at two different screens, while the feed behind your website comes out of the same MLS either way.
bridgeMLS is the MLS owned and operated by the Bridge Association of REALTORS, serving that association's members plus members of the Delta Association of REALTORS and the Tuolumne County Association of REALTORS.
Bay East Association of REALTORS in Pleasanton and the Contra Costa Association of REALTORS (CCAR) in Walnut Creek and Hercules each run their own MLS systems, commonly called Bay East MLS and CCAR MLS. Three organizations, three memberships, three boards, three MLSs. All three happen to run on the same underlying software, Paragon, which is the reason they get grouped together in vendor directories.
What connects them is a data share. bridgeMLS, Bay East, and CCAR, plus four more Northern California MLSs, exchange listing data reciprocally through the NorCal MLS Alliance, launched January 20, 2021. It is a data share, not a merger and not a joint venture. The seven members:
Inside Paragon, a bridgeMLS subscriber searches all seven without a second login.
Searching is not the same as licensing, and this is the distinction to get straight before you scope a site. bridgeMLS itself is the MLS-of-record for much of Alameda County, including Oakland and Berkeley, for eastern Contra Costa County through the Delta Association of REALTORS service center in Antioch, and for Tuolumne County. The "Counties We Serve" list in bridgeMLS's own site footer runs wider than that: Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Tuolumne, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano.
That list puts native territory and Alliance reciprocal reach in one line without separating them. If a website feed needs Alliance-partner listings too, get that scope confirmed by bridgeMLS support in writing rather than assuming reciprocal search access and a licensed data feed are the same thing.
One more naming point, because it decides where you go for credentials. bridgeMLS runs on Paragon, and Paragon-based MLSs deliver vendor data through Property Information Central at paragonapi.com, so that is the route your credentials take once bridgeMLS approves you. Bridge Interactive, the data-distribution company owned by Zillow Group, is a different business and has no part in it. The credential steps are below.
Two service centers deliver that native coverage. Berkeley, run by the Bridge Association of REALTORS, handles the Alameda County core. Antioch, run by the Delta Association of REALTORS, handles eastern Contra Costa County.
Tuolumne County joined in November 2023 as a third serviced association, which pushed bridgeMLS's own footprint into the Sierra foothills below Yosemite rather than only widening its search reach. You can see that integration in the governance too: bridgeMLS's current MLS Committee roster includes brokerage members from Twain Harte.
Neither county is wall to wall bridgeMLS, so check before you quote a project. Bay East MLS, run by the Bay East Association of REALTORS in Pleasanton, covers much of southern Alameda County. CCAR MLS covers the rest of Contra Costa County from Walnut Creek and Hercules. If the listings you want originate on the other side of one of those lines, you are looking at a different MLS and a different approval, not a wider filter on the same feed.
bridgeMLS subscribers can also search the other six NorCal MLS Alliance systems inside Paragon, and bridgeMLS's own FAQ puts the total at more than 10 data share partner MLS systems, wider than the Alliance roster by itself. All of that is search access, covered in the section above, and none of it is bridgeMLS's own licensed territory.
bridgeMLS is open to brokers, agents, and appraisers licensed by the California Department of Real Estate, plus clerical staff working for a licensed broker. Its own Membership Applications page carries a separate application form for each role. Four of them cover almost every website project.
An agent affiliated with a Broker Participant. The application needs that broker's signature certifying the affiliation, so you can't self-enroll around your broker.
Unlicensed staff working under a licensed broker, on their own application form rather than the agent one.
A California-licensed appraiser working under an Appraiser Participant, using the appraiser track rather than the agent track.
The broker or appraiser who holds MLS Participant status directly. Participants come in first, then their affiliated people join as Subscribers.
Approval takes about 1 to 3 business days. New subscribers then have 60 days to complete mandatory training, either "Intro to Paragon" or "Intro to ConnectMLS," depending on the platform they picked.
Here's the gate most website projects trip over: MLS membership and data feed access are two separate approvals at bridgeMLS, documented on its own IDX Info page. Participants and Subscribers who want IDX display rights on their own site sign an IDX Data Access Agreement. A third-party technology provider, a vendor or a consultant working on someone else's behalf, signs a separate Vendor or Consultant data access agreement instead.
Being a member in good standing does not by itself put a feed in your hands. The credential path is below.
Paragon, the MLS platform from Black Knight, is bridgeMLS's primary member platform. bridgeMLS defines it plainly in its own FAQ: "the software platform that bridgeMLS uses to house listing information and provide an intuitive user interface where realtors can input and search data with ease." It is not a system sitting still.
The Paragon Connect native app and the Cumulative Days on Market field move, both covered further down, landed within two months of each other in 2026. But connectMLS is the second platform members can choose instead of, or alongside, Paragon, described above.
Whichever one an agent works in, the listing data behind your website comes out of the same MLS, so platform choice is a workflow question for your agents rather than a feed question for your developer.
bridgeMLS appears on RESO's own public certification registry with Certified Current status, UOI M00000057, certified August 15, 2022. Vendor data reaches you over the RESO Web API, delivered through the vendor data platform for Paragon-based MLSs, Property Information Central at paragonapi.com. That registry is public, so the status is something you can check yourself before you sign anything.
MLS Import relies on the RESO Data Dictionary so common fields map the same way every time, which is the difference between an hourly sync that just runs and a developer re-reading a proprietary export every time something upstream changes. A stable member platform behind a standards-based feed is the boring quality you want under a site you don't plan to rebuild every year.
bridgeMLS runs on Paragon, and Paragon-based MLSs deliver vendor data through Property Information Central (PIC) at paragonapi.com, so that is where your credentials will come from once bridgeMLS approves you.
Paragon's own admin documentation describes PIC as a pipeline for accessing MLS listing datasets, delivered in normalized form through a standard RESTful API, and says the platform "facilitates managing the necessary data licenses for you and data providers with a standard approval process."
Which agreement you sign depends on the role you are filling: a Participant or Subscriber publishing an IDX feed on their own site signs one, a third-party technology provider signs another. Start with bridgeMLS itself. The MLS owns the approval, and a request that begins anywhere else comes back to it anyway.
Contact bridgeMLS support directly to open a vendor data-access request, at [email protected] or 925.363.2333. This is the step to do first, before any account creation anywhere else.
bridgeMLS reviews the request and settles which data access agreement applies, the IDX Data Access Agreement for a Participant or Subscriber, or the Vendor/Consultant agreement for a technology provider working on someone else's behalf.
Once the licensing side is approved, access lands where Paragon-based MLSs issue vendor credentials, the Property Information Central dashboard at paragonapi.com, with the RESO Web API as the transport.
Collect your endpoint and credential details, then pull a sample query before anyone builds templates on top of the data.
Paste those credentials into MLS Import and start an hourly sync into native WordPress posts on your own domain.
One scope question belongs at the start of a project rather than the week before launch: whether listings from Bay East, CCAR, or the other four Alliance MLSs are part of what bridgeMLS licenses to you, or whether your feed carries bridgeMLS listings alone. Ask bridgeMLS directly and keep the answer in writing. A plugin can only import what the feed actually sends, so a site designed around a county that turns out to sit behind a different MLS is a rebuild, not a settings change.
IDX runs on NAR's Broker Reciprocity policy: MLS Participants may display certain MLS listings under their own "actual and apparent control," with consent presumed unless a listing broker opts out.
An IDX feed may carry listings not opted out, with a status of active, pending, or sold within the past three years.
Effective March 11, 2025, MLS Rule 12.16(t) lets all listing photos, not just the primary one, display on IDX sites for sold listings.
An agent who wants photos withheld after a sale has to mark them Private before the listing moves to Sold. Build your sold archive for a variable photo count.
Coming Soon, introduced August 18, 2025, is an optional pre-marketing status that needs a signed listing agreement. Listings in it are viewable to all MLS Participants and searchable only within Paragon. Under the August 2025 rules they were kept out of syndication to outside sites and out of IDX feeds, with a VOW feed the one place they could surface. Once a listing moves to New or Active it cannot go back, and the March 2026 rules drop it automatically into a Coming Soon Cancelled status 30 days after entry.
bridgeMLS's March 30, 2026 announcement reads two ways. Its narrative and FAQ put portal syndication under the agent's control at entry, through the Internet Site (Yes or No) field, with existing listings defaulting to No, while the rules attached to it say Coming Soon listings are not syndicated to other websites and may not be displayed publicly except by the listing brokerage.
What is not in question is IDX. The rules published with that change still say Coming Soon listings "will not be included in the IDX and data feeds," and Section 12.19.15 now bars a VOW from displaying them too. So a Coming Soon listing does not reach your site through an IDX feed today, and it cannot reach a VOW either. Build for the stricter reading, and ask bridgeMLS before promising a client a Coming Soon page.
From bridgeMLS's compliance documents: at least one exterior photo is required within one day of submission, except for business opportunity and lots or land. Photos flagged Private are excluded from IDX display.
"For Sale" sign branding and agent contact details are prohibited inside listing photos, branded virtual tours belong only in the Branded Virtual Tour field. bridgeMLS publishes no refresh cadence for its feeds, so treat any "updated every X minutes" figure for this MLS as guesswork.
Three separate invoices, and people mix them up constantly. Your bridgeMLS Subscriber fee goes to bridgeMLS. Your Bridge Association of REALTORS dues go to the association, which is a different organization from the MLS even though one owns the other. MLS Import is billed by mlsimport.com and has nothing to do with either.
On the MLS side, the most recent published figures come from bridgeMLS's own Real Estate Subscriber application form, revised 7/19/2021 and hosted by the Delta Association of REALTORS, one of bridgeMLS's own service-center associations:
Run the quarterly option before you pick it. Four payments of $152.76 come to $611.04 a year against the $499 annual figure, so paying quarterly cost $112.04 more per year at those rates. Worth knowing if cash flow is the reason you were leaning that way.
Those figures are dated 2021. Confirm current pricing with bridgeMLS before you put a number in a client proposal. The Bridge Association of REALTORS membership page quotes its own prorated August 2026 primary membership dues at $775 and, for the MLS line, says only "price varies based on MLS system of choice," so the association isn't publishing a current bridgeMLS dollar figure either.
On May 24, 2026, bridgeMLS introduced Tia Hunnicutt of Parallax Governance Group as Interim CEO. The message states that "platform, data, support contacts, and day-to-day MLS services will continue seamlessly and unchanged." It does not explain the previous CEO's departure. The prior CEO named in public announcements through November 2023 was DaVina Lara.
Read the wording for exactly what it says and no more. This is an interim arrangement with an outside governance firm, not a completed permanent hire, and nothing in the announcement supports a claim about where the organization lands long term.
What it does address is the part that touches you: support contacts and data access continue unchanged through the transition. If your site depends on that vendor data-access request being answered, that's the sentence to hold them to, and it's a reason to keep your bridgeMLS correspondence in writing rather than over the phone during the transition.
The Paragon Connect native mobile app went live for bridgeMLS members on April 5, 2026, following a "Coming Soon" notice in January 2026. On May 27, 2026, a smaller change landed: the Cumulative Days on Market field moved to the History tab.
Neither is dramatic on its own, and that's rather the point. Two dated platform changes inside two months is what an actively maintained system looks like from the outside, and bridgeMLS posts them all to its own news feed, which is the cheapest way to check any MLS before you build on its data.
connectMLS is on the same footing: its 6.5.10 release notes, dated March 21, 2026, list interface changes already shipped. Put that next to the November 19, 2025 reaffirmation that subscribers can run Paragon, connectMLS, or both, and the picture is two platforms both getting attention rather than one quietly being retired.
For an import, the field-level change is the one to note: a field moving between tabs in the member interface is a display change, not a change to what the RESO Web API sends.
bridgeMLS is the multiple listing service owned by the Bridge Association of REALTORS, serving much of Alameda County plus eastern Contra Costa County and Tuolumne County, from service centers in Berkeley and Antioch.
It runs on the Paragon platform. MLS Import publishes its listings on your WordPress site as native posts.
No. bridgeMLS, Bay East MLS, and CCAR MLS are three separately owned, separately governed MLSs.
All three run on Paragon and exchange listing data reciprocally through the NorCal MLS Alliance, launched January 20, 2021. MLS Import connects to a bridgeMLS feed specifically, using your own approved credentials.
No. bridgeMLS is the East Bay regional MLS and runs on Paragon. Bridge Interactive is a separate data-distribution company owned by Zillow Group.
Vendor credentials for Paragon-based MLSs come through Property Information Central at paragonapi.com, and those are the ones MLS Import needs.
Much of Alameda County, plus eastern Contra Costa County and Tuolumne County, is bridgeMLS's own territory.
Other Northern California MLSs are searchable through the NorCal MLS Alliance inside Paragon, which is search access rather than licensed territory. MLS Import publishes the bridgeMLS listings your approved feed carries.
Three steps. Build on any WordPress theme. Contact bridgeMLS support to open a vendor data-access request, then collect RESO Web API credentials through Property Information Central.
Then paste those credentials into MLS Import, which syncs listings hourly into posts on your own domain.
Email [email protected] or call 925.363.2333 to open a vendor data-access request. bridgeMLS owns the approval, so the request starts with the MLS.
Once it approves you and the data license is signed, credentials arrive the way Paragon-based MLSs issue them, through the Property Information Central dashboard, ready for MLS Import.
The most recent published figures come from bridgeMLS's 2021 Real Estate Subscriber application: a $200 application fee and $499 per year, or $152.76 per quarter.
Confirm current pricing with bridgeMLS directly. MLS Import is billed separately at $49 per month after a 30-day free trial.
bridgeMLS is open to brokers, agents, and appraisers licensed by the California Department of Real Estate, plus clerical staff working for a licensed broker.
An agent's application needs the participating broker's signature. Membership is separate from the data-access agreement a feed into MLS Import requires.
Yes. bridgeMLS appears on RESO's public certification registry with Certified Current status, and vendor data is delivered over the RESO Web API through Property Information Central.
MLS Import connects over that same RESO Web API using the credentials bridgeMLS issues to you.
Yes. MLS Import is a standalone plugin that works with any WordPress theme, with deeper native integration for WpResidence, WpEstate, Houzez, and Real Homes.
It syncs an approved bridgeMLS feed hourly into native, indexable posts and relies on the RESO Data Dictionary for consistent field mapping.
Membership and a data feed both come from bridgeMLS, not from us. Membership questions and vendor data-access requests go to different places, so the list below is split by department rather than pointed at one general inbox. Once you hold both, MLS Import handles the WordPress side.
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