By Marilyn Wilson|2024-12-12T10:14:50-08:00December 12th, 2024|Announcements, Industry Observations, Press Releases|
Congrats to RESO for recruiting a smart, passionate group of leaders representing many of the best and brightest companies in real estate today. I love that there are strong leaders like Caitlyn McCrory from Anywhere and Joe Wilhelmy from Re/MAX elevating the voice and influence of brokers in bringing the practical realities and data challenges to be address by RESO.
By Kevin Hawkins|2024-10-25T08:20:44-07:00October 25th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, MLS, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 43 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Debunking the Top 3 ChatGPT Myths For those born post-internet, a famous comedian named Rodney Dangerfield coined the line "I don't get no respect. No respect at all" as a catchphrase of his standup act. Often, AI is maligned just like Rodney. Some of the [...]
By Victor Lund|2024-10-21T11:28:29-07:00October 21st, 2024|IDX, MLS, Real Estate Technology|
This is a wake up call to MLSs and the vendors that consume IDX data. By mutual agreement, every MLS must adopt the new standard within one year of that standard passing. The fuse was lit and there are six months to get every MLS up to speed.
By Kevin Hawkins|2025-07-01T09:42:50-07:00August 17th, 2023|
AI for Real Estate Kevin Hawkins - Co-creator and Editor of REAL AI Korey Hawkins - Co-creator and Copy Editor of REAL AI New! Check out the AI song - "NAREE in NOLA 2025" created using Suno by Kevin Hawkins for the NAREE annual meeting: Recent AI Newsletters - Now Available only by free subscription (see form above) Do you know Suno?, and more The scariest AI is free, and more AI just hacked home search, and more Not all AI chatbots are created equal, and more [...]
By Victor Lund|2023-08-14T13:32:54-07:00August 7th, 2023|Data-Driven Culture, IDX, MLS Insights, Real Estate Technology|
If you are considering a data share, we hope you find inspiration from WARDEX. WARDEX has positioned itself for data sharing to resolve the problems of overlapping market disorder.
By Marilyn Wilson|2025-03-15T09:01:36-07:00December 13th, 2021|Associations, MLS, Real Estate Technology, RESO, Technology|
RETS, the outdated data transport method that was launched in the last century is finally going to be replaced by the RESO Web API, today’s method for efficiently building and deploying data dependent real estate technologies.
By Kevin Hawkins|2021-12-09T05:49:44-08:00December 9th, 2021|Associations, Uncategorized|
Every December, the election results are revealed that announce the new Board of Directors for the Real Estate Standards organization or RESO. And every year, a stellar slate of industry leaders take the helm at RESO to help guide its vision for a streamlined real estate technology industry. The real estate industry is well represented by this group, which includes: Rebecca Jensen, MRED; Michael Wurzer, FBS; John Breault, State-Wide MLS; and Richard Renton, Triad MLS; Todd Carpenter, NAR; Jason Normandin, NAR; Matt Cohen, CoreLogic; Bob Evans, Move, Inc.; and Mark Lesswing, T3 Sixty; Turan Tekin, Zillow Group; Andy Woolley, Homes.com; [...]
By Victor Lund|2021-11-03T09:19:58-07:00November 3rd, 2021|Broker Information, Communications and PR, Data-Driven Culture, MLS, Research|
This summer, the Broker Resource Network (BRN) asked us if we would be interested in writing a report about an alarming trend related to days on market. They are inviting an industry to have a conversation about this issue. As an industry, it is important for agents to gain access to information and training about the value of the MLS.
By Victor Lund|2021-06-16T14:35:47-07:00June 15th, 2021|Announcements, Press Releases|
The Broker Resource Network (“BRN”) issued their first press release today. Since January, the network has been forming through the efforts of one broker calling another, then another, and so on. In a short number of months, the group took shape and through accounting, these firms combine to represent the fourth largest group of brokers in real estate.
By Victor Lund|2020-09-21T13:01:36-07:00September 21st, 2020|Broker-Agent Information|
Brokers should continue to create leads that they can refer to their agents. This reinforces a solid retention strategy that helps the broker pick up higher margins through referrals to agents.
By Marilyn Wilson|2020-04-22T16:05:09-07:00April 22nd, 2020|Technology|
As some of you may know the principles at WAV Group own a valuable MLS service called RETechnology.com, a portal designed to help agents and brokers leverage technology more effectively.
By Kevin Hawkins|2020-04-08T15:25:58-07:00April 8th, 2020|Broker-Agent Information, Business Intelligence, Conferences, COVID-19, Marketing, MLS, RESO|
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That's how many people, companies, and organizations, like the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), are responding to these uncertain times. Unable to host its standard Spring Tech Summit in New Orleans, the team at RESO came out early with a pivot to create a digital summit version – April 21-23. That's welcoming news, as many folks will tell you RESO is the best-kept secret among all real estate conferences. True, there won’t be a #RESOnola, but I am ready #RESOremote. I need a conference – badly. So, I have blocked my calendar [...]