in reply to RETS (Real Estate Std) and Perl

If you're looking to gather Real Estate listings, have you looked at the WWW::Mechanize and LWP modules? That's probably a good starting point. And perusing the PDF at the rets.org website shows that there's an Excel plugin so perhaps the Spreadsheet modules for Excel would be another place to look.

Good luck!

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.