Move CEO Addresses ListHub Purchase and Other Topics
In a recent industry letter, Steve Berkowitz, Chief Executive Officer of Move, Inc., talks recent Move events, including their entrance into the syndication arena. Update from Berkowitz
NJMLS Executive Director Tina Griffin to Retire after 34 Years
According to a press release from NJMLS on October 1st, 2010. Tina Griffin, the respected Executive Director of the New Jersey Multiple Listing Service, has announced that she will be retiring in January 2011 after 34 years at the helm of the REALTOR® owned organization. This marks the end of a long career, with many significant achievements marking the milestones of a company that has long been the benchmark to which other MLS systems aspire. Nelson Chen, Broker/Owner of The Chen Agency and President of the NJMLS Board of Directors, states, “I have had the privilege and honor of working with [...]
Point2 Announces New MLS/Association Syndication Program Inplementations
NEWS RELEASE Point2 Technologies Announces Eleven New MLS and Association Listing Syndication Program Implementations Saskatoon, SK and Vancouver, BC September 27, 2010 Point2 Technologies (”Point2“) today announced eleven additional real estate MLSs (Multiple Listing Service) and Associations in the United States have recently selected and completed the implementation of the companys benchmark setting property listing aggregation and syndication solution. Todays announcement follows a September 22, 2010 release by Point2 that the REALTOR®Association Of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Inc., one of the largest REALTOR® Associations in the State of Florida, with 8,600 members and 20,000 listings, had also completed the Point2 program roll [...]
Prudential California/Nevada CEO Krafchow names new company co-presidents
In a news release today, Ed Krafchow, CEO of Prudential California Realty and Prudential Nevada Realty placed his confidence in David Gardner and Pat Shea as co-Presidents of his company. Together, they will assume the role of continuing to guide this great brokerage down the path of success that Krafchow began so many years ago. It is really a great story about two REALTORS, Agents, like so many others that join the ranks each day. These two passionate individuals grew up in the industry, and like Krafchow - share a vision for managing a brokerage with highly trained agents, leveraging [...]
MRED Launches new brand image How strong is YOUR brand image?
It’s very exciting to see MRED, the second largest MLS in the United States launch a new brand image for their company. Their tagline “reinventing MLS” may give all of us a clue about where Russ Bergeron, their new CEO and the rest of his staff are going. It looks like they are going to “shake things up” a bit. I am heartened by a leader in the MLS industry that is taking their brand seriously. They have launched a whole new marketing campaign to help build awareness of their brand to their subscribers. By using such an inspirational mark, [...]
Concerned about Lower Real Estate Commission Rates? Try Transaction Management
Today’s real estate consumer communicates very differently with their agent than in past times. Unlike boomers who like to get to know their agent and work with them in person, Gen Y’s prefer to do most things electronically. They ask for you to send them an update to a contract via text. They want you to set them up on auto email from your MLS system to look for listings that match their search criteria. Bottomline, they want to just “get it done". They don’t have the time or interest to really get to know and the true skills you [...]
What Happened to Notice of Participants
I came across this post today from an excellent blog by 2 consultant/Attorneys, Tim Jacobson and John Reese - check out thier blog at http://www.strategicmls.com In this post, they remind us of some basics - republished here There may be some confusion about the rights of MLS in connection with new opportunities to license listing content to third parties, such as Realtors Property Resource™ (RPR), CoreLogic®, and Move®. For years, National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has appropriately taken the position that listings are the property of the participant who generated them. Policy Statement 7.85 adopted by NAR in May, 2005 states [...]
MOVE, operators of Realtor.com, Acquires Threewide Listhub
In a MOVE that is sure to improve listing syndication to third party websites, MOVE, Inc has aquired Threewide, the operators of the popular ListHub product which syndicates listings to their party websites like Trulia and Zillow for customers like MLSs, Brokers, Franchises, etc. If you saw the MOVE announcement last week whereby their contract with NAR regarding Listing Syndication needed to be amended, you can appreciate just how tight the relationship is between MOVE and NAR. There is very little that MOVE can do without NAR’s blessing and approval. Everyone should be proud that NAR takes Broker Listing Content so [...]
The RPR – Data Seeker Update
The RPR Data Seeker Update It has been almost twelve months since the San Diego NAR conference when RPR had their coming out party and began the data wars our industry finds itself in. Maybe it didn’t actually start the whole issue of using MLS data for non-traditional purposes, but it certainly put it in our mainstream discussions. It also made the whole concept of using MLS data for purposes other than selling properties a concept that the industry was willing to consider. This was a big shift and one that hadn’t had much energy since REGIB (Real Estate Business [...]
RE Technology, Inc is Hiring!
RE Technology, Inc. is growing by leaps and bounds! We need to hire another sales peson to help spread the word about the great opportunity to connect technolog companies and services to over 250,000 agents across the United States. RE Technology’s flagship product RETEchnology.com is the real estate industry’s first ever web portal that aggregates information about a variety of technologies and services used by the real estate industry. It is a thriving online portal featuring the industry’s most comprehensive resource for products, companies, user ratings and product reviews. RETechnololgy.com allows real estate agents and brokers to better leverage the power of [...]
Professional real estate websites are losing the battle for consumers online.
Professional real estate websites are losing the battle for consumers online. Todays real estate consumer has a dizzying array of websites that provide them with access to real estate listings. There are numerous third party websites like Zillow and Trulia as well as national real estate Franchise sites and local real estate company websites. Consumers likely assume that all of these sites offer the same quality of information. Unfortunately this isnt the case. This white paper from the WAV Group chronicles research findings on the consumer search experience. WAV Group has calculated the differences between third party websites, franchise websites, and broker websites [...]
NAR and MOVE sign new operating Agreement that makes Realtor.com a syndicator
In a press release published today, the National Association of REALTORS and MOVE, INC (operators of REALTOR.com) announced that they have completed the renewal of the agreement between these two parties to continue their relationship. In an unexpected twist, realtor.com may now act as a syndication resource to agents and brokers who which to have their listings appear on other third party websites like Zillow, Trulia, MSN, Yahoo, Google and a long list of other third party websites. This is great news for agents and brokers who are challenged to keep their listing content current and accurate at third party [...]