NAR Gets Serious About RESO Compliance

The National Association of REALTORS® Chief Executive Officer, Bob Goldberg has been making some impressive moves this week. The first move is to send threatening letters to about 90 MLSs who have not adopted the RESO Standards or are not adhering to the MLS Policy required to maintain NAR affiliation.  Some of the MLSs are being cited for not being certified with the RESO Data Dictionary and some do not yet have availability with the RESO Web API. While many MLSs still believe that RESO is not critical to their business, we hear from brokers regularly that they are requesting [...]

By |2018-02-02T10:21:56-08:00February 2nd, 2018|IDX, MLS Insights, NAR, RESO|0 Comments
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NAR’s Goldberg Kills Amp and Powers Up Upstream

We’re starting to see the impact of a new leadership team at the National Association of REALTORS® led by Bob Goldberg, a strategic, yet practical leader that is SERIOUS about making the industry function more effectively.  He also seems to be critically evaluating every investment in technology and making some bold moves to re-focus efforts. NAR announced yesterday that is shutting down development on its Advanced Multilist Platform, or AMP. AMP was under development for a few years at a burn rate of $6 Million per year. The concept behind AMP was solid – consolidate MLS data into a single [...]

By |2018-02-02T09:43:31-08:00February 2nd, 2018|Broker Technology Research, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights, Technology|0 Comments
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Inside Real Estate Acquires Circlepix

Circlepix has sold everything. They operated an extensive network of photographers that they sold to VHT Studios in January. Now they have sold the rest of their company to Inside Real Estate. If you have not followed Inside Real Estate lately – pay attention. Inside Real Estate is the incredible company that recently landed Keyes – one of the largest firms in South East Florida among others. They are taking a piecemeal approach to purchasing world class software providers to complete their suite of an end-to-end solution for brokers, teams, and agents. At the heart of Inside Real Estate is [...]

By |2018-02-01T07:17:20-08:00February 1st, 2018|Broker Technology Research, Main category, Marketing, Press Releases, Technology, Technology Evaluation, Virtual Office Website Series|0 Comments
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Welles Bowen Realtors Joins Forces with Howard Hanna Real Estate

Cleveland, Ohio (January 30, 2018) – Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, the third largest real estate company in the United States, is pleased to welcome Welles Bowen Realtors to the Hanna family of companies. For over 100 years, Welles Bowen Realtors has been serving Northwest Ohio with the latest in marketing and technology. A reputable local real estate broker, Welles Bowen Realtors will now be able to provide the over 150 professionals in their 10 offices with Howard Hanna’s programs, services, and business resources. “Two years ago, we opened up our new Howard Hanna Toledo/Maumee office with a commitment to the region,” said [...]

By |2018-01-31T08:26:25-08:00January 31st, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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WAV Group Announces New Technology Consulting Division

WAV Group is pleased to announce David Gumpper as the latest addition to its growing suite of executive leaders.  David Gumpper, former Chief Technology Officer for Michael Saunders & Company and Founder of the Gumpper Group, a strong industry advocate will be leading the company’s Technology Consulting division. David’s depth of experience helping brokerages increase market share uniquely qualifies him to help technology companies, brokerages and MLSs  drive success by delivering technology and marketing programs. David is expert at o leading the development of sound technology strategies that position a company well for success and then develop workable and practical [...]

By |2018-01-30T08:17:54-08:00January 30th, 2018|Main category, Our Company, Our Services, Technology|0 Comments
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Case Study – Showing Service Delivers Key Ingredient in Broker Success

Showing Service Delivers Key Ingredient In Broker Success WAV Group has just published a case study examining specialized showing software. WAV Group works with real estate brokerages to assess back end technology solutions. Real estate brokers have been working with specialized back-end showing software like Centralized Showing Service. This paper examines two very different customers of CSS. First, we examined a long-time customer of CSS, Ebby Halliday, Realtors®. In the case of Ebby Halliday, we wanted to understand the reasoning with why they’ve stuck with Centralized Showing Service for such a long time, and what the strategic value is to [...]

By |2018-01-23T11:00:48-08:00January 23rd, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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Broker Public Portal with Homesnap Grows Over 150% in First Year

  Industry effort ”blows the doors off estimates;” Should quiet critics, leaders say ROCKVILLE, MD, January 23, 2018 – Broker Public Portal (BPP) since its launch with Homesnap in January last year has grown from serving 45 Multiple Listing Services to more than 120 MLSs today, representing 800,000 real estate agents and brokers. As a result, Homesnap has become one of the nation’s most collaborative consumer real estate apps. Real estate agents have invited more than 19 million clients and contacts to access MLS listing data, and 8.5 million consumers have engaged with their agents through Homesnap. Broker Public Portal [...]

By |2018-12-19T15:26:40-08:00January 23rd, 2018|Broker Public Portal, Main category|7 Comments
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Swanepoel Power 200 Honors 2018 Industry Leaders

Just this week the, Swanepoel Power 200 was released, naming the Top 200 people in the real estate industry. Inman News dropped their Top 100 Influencers list – so Swanepoel is the one and only definitive list. The 2017 Swanepoel Power 200 list is “truly designed to recognize the most powerful and influential in our business,” According to Swanepoel T3.  “It is culled from over 3 million real estate professionals, with less than 0.01% selected to be included. The firm spends over 400 hours in researching and analyzing the rankings. Leaders from all residential real estate brands, brokerages, technology companies, [...]

By |2018-01-23T05:00:33-08:00January 23rd, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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The MLS – The Ultimate Real Estate Marketing Network

We all know that successful agents are always looking for new ways to grow their business. Some spends hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month with online portals.  Some pay $29.99 a month to a BUNCH of technologies hoping they will provide them with a magic bullet of brilliance.  While there are billions of dollars spent online every year, most agents are disappointed by the results of these disjointed investments. The same agents that are happy to spend thousands on many ill-fated and poorly executed outside marketing services, ALSO belong to their local MLS.  They are spending well UNDER [...]

By |2018-01-21T17:00:42-08:00January 21st, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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Survey: Industry Leaders Show Record Confidence in 2018 Economy, Housing

An unprecedented 73% of top real estate executives say the U.S. economy will improve or improve significantly. That’s the highest level of confidence real estate leaders have expressed since Imprev started its annual Thought Leader Economy & Housing Outlook Study in 2012. These numbers are simply stunning. Top real estate executives’ confidence in America’s economy has more than doubled since October 2016. Then just 32% said the U.S. economy would improve or improve significantly. The 2016 survey was conducted immediately prior to the U.S. presidential election. The highest confidence level prior to the current study was 54% in 2012. The [...]

By |2018-01-20T12:00:51-08:00January 20th, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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Real Estate’s First HyperLocal White Paper Discovers A “Movement”

Social media, mobile technology and marketing automation: those are the three ingredients that are changing real estate in a profound and everlasting way. And, unlike many skeptics, I believe it’s for the better. My proof is the emergence of a “HyperLocal Movement” in real estate that the confluence of these three has fueled. Now there is really nothing new about the “idea” of HyperLocal in real estate. No other industry has been more focused on being local than ours. Many agents have legitimately been practicing hyperlocalism for years, if not decades. What is new is what's happening NOW with hyperlocalism, [...]

By |2018-01-19T12:00:23-08:00January 19th, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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All Computers and Servers At Risk from Spectre and Meltdown

Every computer device – server, laptop, desktop, every router, every wireless router, every network printer, every network fax machine, and every phone is impacted. Don’t freak out. Being impacted and being attacked are two different things. We are going to explain what is happening in layman terms and help you get through it. Right before Christmas, researchers discovered that there is a security vulnerability (like an open door) that exposes computers built after 1995 to risk. Google found it (nod in reverence to Jann Horn of Google who was a key researcher who found both vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre. [...]

By |2018-01-18T12:00:05-08:00January 18th, 2018|Main category|0 Comments
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