An inventive two-tiered buyer-seller matching method directed to property transactions is disclosed herein. The inventive method matches buyers that are recruited on an internet website to list criteria for desired real estate properties. Sellers of property are similarly recruited to list the property. In a first matching tier, a cohort of matched buyers is chosen by matching basic property descriptors entered by buyers and sellers. As a further refinement to the first tier of the matching process, a second tier function of the inventive method ranks individual buyers in the cohort by the overall importance of the selected property features that are common to that buyer' s choices and to the seller. A list comprising the cohort of buyers ordered by the ranking score is then presented to the seller. In this manner, the seller is provided with a knowledge of which buyers would potentially be most interested in the property for sale, and is thereby provided with a basis upon which one or more of high potential buyers may be contacted with an offer to sell.