David Charron has always been an industry visionary and leader through every step in his storied career.  Today he continues the implementation of his vision as CEO of America's Largest MLS - MRIS. His vision for the future of the MLS is an environment where Agents and Consumers can connect with each other to have discussions about properties, values, neighborhoods and all things real estate.  Enjoy this brief interview courtesy of Inman News. I will be moderating a panel discussion at Inman in January titled MLS 2014 - 5 things to do right now to get ready.  Here are the [...]

WAV Group just received the Rapattoni Animated Holiday Card and we thought it was just great! Here it is for you to enjoy in case you did not receive it. http://www.rapattoni.com/multimedia/holidaycard/08/seasonsgreetings.html

IMapp recently announced several moves to position the company for future growth. Joel Cohen has been promoted to President, Kevan Sheridan was promoted to VP of Systems Operations and Pat Bastian was promoted to Vice President of Data Operations. Former President Bill Rovillo now maintains the position of Founder/CEO. Joel Cohen joined IMAPP in September, 2008 having most recently served as the Mid-Florida Regional MLSs Vice President, overseeing their day-to-day operations for the past nine years.  Joel will now oversee IMAPPs daily operations and future endeavors. “Im excited to have the opportunity to help lead the IMAPP organization into the future” says [...]

Real Estate Brokers, Agents and MLSs who use the Listhub product from Threewide saw Christmas come early this year.  Now for the first time, users of this listing syndication tool can see what properties are hot - and which are not. With their new reporting and performance tools, Listhub now offers granular information about property characteristics that are important to consumers - hot price points, popular number of bedrooms, areas of town and more. The best feature of Listhub has always been their aggregated reporting.  They combine information from all of the sites that they syndicate listing to, including but not [...]

  Stephan Swanepoel has just released this year's top 10 real estate newsmakers list.  The list includes several federal government leaders as well as noted industry leaders like Saul Klein, CEO of Point2Technologies and Internet Crusade as well we William Foley, Founder of Fidelity Natiional Financial and Laure Janik, General Counsel for the National Association of REALTORS®. This years report also includes United States Secretary of State, Henry Paulsen, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke, General Counsel for the National , Laurie Janik, CEO of the Bank of America, Kenneth Lewis, and Chairman of the Federal Deposit [...]

Our Company In today’s business environment it is tougher than ever to find new paths to optimize your business or association. The WAV Group can help you make better technology decisions and to find new breakthroughs and paths to success. Areas we can help with include: Facilitating comprehensive strategic planning initiatives Evaluating and selecting real estate technology solutions Designing and executing research programs Helping you to develop and launch your next real estate product Creating and executing custom marketing plans Optimizing sales - sales training, comp plans, presentation development, distribution strategies Building comp plans Retooling distribution strategies Delivering broker Internet strategies to increase leads and [...]

Our Team The WAV Group The founding partners of WAV Group, Mike Audet, Marilyn Wilson and Victor Lund came together because they share a common vision and values regarding business and how to create success for their company and their clients.  All three have been successful executives with major companies bringing together complimentary talents in sales, marketing, business development and product management.  Since their inception in March of 2004, WAV Group has developed an impressive client list in the United States, Canada and Europe becoming the first choice of major trade associations, technology companies, MLSs, and brokers when they need consulting services!  In addition to serving [...]

The faces of todays real estate consumer do not have many wrinkles! While the median age of REALTORS® has remained constant for several years, the age of the real estate consumer is changing fairly dramatically. They are getting younger and younger. According to NARs 2008 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, the median age of a real estate consumer is 39 years old.  The average age of first time homebuyers is only 30 years old.  Real estate consumers continue to get younger on average. According to NARs 2006 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, the median age of real estate [...]