The few listings available, he said, were often offered at inflated prices, even for that level.

Web sites like Homegain can display nearly the entire range of listings available to agents through the multiple-listing services.

Actually, there are more Italian than Spanish wines, but two of the three available Spanish listings are the way to go.

The site also provides the most complete listing available of artist residency programs in the US and the rest of the world.

Although brokers don't need to serve anything, besides an available listing, to satisfy their customers, it may make a competitive and stressful situation more tolerable.

The book, which sells for $9.95, is the most-comprehensive listing of Long Island restaurants available.

And apartments became even scarcer, with the number of available listings falling more than 23 percent from the previous quarter, the report said.

That was the sharpest quarterly decrease in available listings in four years, Mr. Miller said.

At Japanese Clientele Shares and Apartments, the $500 fee has no limit on the time or number of listings available to a client.

The Homeline service found eight listings, all available immediately or on Sept. 1.