New Product Integrations, Upstream Developments, and an Expanding Alliance Network: CoreLogic User Group Meeting Delivers an Inspiring Week in Vancouver

The bulk of our work is helping MLSs drive member satisfaction and adoption of existing services to brokers and agents. And, each year we help some number of MLSs with conversions to different vendors. Often, these conversions are related to consolidation and data sharing.

By |2019-07-10T12:45:52-07:00July 10th, 2019|MLS Insights|Comments Off on New Product Integrations, Upstream Developments, and an Expanding Alliance Network: CoreLogic User Group Meeting Delivers an Inspiring Week in Vancouver

Sheriff’s Department Issues Warning of Scams with Fake Listings on Zillow: Could Your MLS Take the Blame?

On July 4th in Atlanta, GA, a Fox 5 affiliate covered a story about the Hall County Sheriff’s Department warning potential home buyers and renters about scammers using actual listings and putting them under fake names on Zillow.

By |2019-07-10T12:46:26-07:00July 9th, 2019|MLS Insights|5 Comments

The Day I Learned of a Spine-Chilling Plot to Digitally Censor My Voice

This story is unusual and somewhat disturbing. Some of you may have seen a quick glimpse of my Amazon Echo 5 article a few weeks ago. A day after it was published, there was an incident causing me to redirect the page web address (URL) to the blog page of WAVGroup.com.

By |2019-07-03T11:41:50-07:00July 2nd, 2019|Technology|6 Comments

A Glance at America’s Most Prominent Minority Homebuyers

The Asian American and Pacific Islander community is America’s fastest-growing demographic. Sponsored by RE/MAX LLC and Freddie Mac, the “State of Asia America 2018-2019” report by AREAA is packed with insight into a community that too often goes overlooked in the real estate market.

By |2019-07-02T19:12:37-07:00July 1st, 2019|Conferences, Main category, Research|Comments Off on A Glance at America’s Most Prominent Minority Homebuyers

Let’s Argue About Broker CRM and Lost Business

For every 500 customer records in a CRM, there are about 25 transactions, 50 sides. Imagine what would happen in your business if you invest as much money and effort into keeping your customers as you do in finding new ones.

Brokers Need to Rebuild Their Marketing Departments

Since the mid-2000s, brokers have decimated their marketing departments to cut expenses and transition from print to digital. The landscape of the brokerage marketing department has changed, resizing teams and altering priorities.

By |2019-06-25T10:34:39-07:00June 25th, 2019|Business Intelligence, Main category, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on Brokers Need to Rebuild Their Marketing Departments

Brokers Need to Rethink Their Website Strategy

The three key objectives of delivering integrated tools to agents, highlighting company listings on the broker website, and marketing agents on the broker website are paramount to success...

By |2019-06-26T09:45:16-07:00June 23rd, 2019|Broker-Agent Information, Business Intelligence, Main category, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on Brokers Need to Rethink Their Website Strategy

How Realogy and Keller Williams Will Win With AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be in the early days of its development, but this brand-new area of technology already promises to transform the way people and machines work together. Divergent AI strategies emerge from two of the largest real estate organizations in America: Keller Williams and Realogy.

By |2019-06-23T07:17:46-07:00June 22nd, 2019|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Main category, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on How Realogy and Keller Williams Will Win With AI

Fe Fi Fo Fum: American Search Giants

WAV Group uses benchmarking tools like Hitwise® and ComScore® to study how brands in real estate accomplish the goal of reaching consumers online.

By |2019-06-19T11:48:50-07:00June 19th, 2019|Business Intelligence, Our Company, Our Services, Reports, Research|Comments Off on Fe Fi Fo Fum: American Search Giants