Buyer Search Feature in MLS Systems

MLS systems have had buyer-servicing portals for years. An agent configures a buyers search criteria, and the buyers representative and buyer are notified whenever a listing matches their search criteria. The system is elegant, informative and works perfectly. But there is a new feature trying to put down roots in this ecosystem that may introduce interesting results an enhanced buyer registration feature of the MLS. Many agents go to Tour Meetings and Office Meetings where they talk about buyer needs all in hopes of finding an agent with a listing. Curious really, since all of the listings are in the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:52-07:00February 9th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Buyer Search Feature in MLS Systems
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Jeremy Crawford moves up state to MLS Listings

In a press release it was announced today that Real Estate Technology Leader Jeremy Crawford Joins MLSListings, Inc. as Chief Information Officer Jeremy also recently became a father! Congratulations to Jeremy and his family. It must be hard to leave Sandicor where he and his team, under the leadership of Ray Ewing provided outstanding services to the brokers and agents of San Diego County. in 2010, Mr. Crawford was awarded the CIO of the Year Award (see post link below). At MLS Listings he will serve under the leadership of James (Jim) Harrison, CEO, Deb McManus and a host of [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:52-07:00February 8th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Jeremy Crawford moves up state to MLS Listings
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The Realty Alliance Top 20 for January 2011

The online ecosystem for real estate search is a very competitive place on a variety of levels. As we reported in early January, WAV Group is taking a deep look at the online effectiveness of a group of the largest brokerages in America, The Realty Alliance. From month to month, there is always a bit of movement and this month shows some gains and some losses in the top 20. Congratulations to Edina Realty who jumped up to third position. They jumped ahead of nearby leading brokers Crye-Leike and SibscyCline. Both SibscyCline and Crye-Leike are still leading Edina in page [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:53-07:00February 7th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on The Realty Alliance Top 20 for January 2011
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Rapportive for Real Estate

If you are a small company or want to have a personal account outside of business, you probably have a Gmail account. GMAIL account are also cool because they integrate so well with other contact and email rich technology platforms like Social Networks. As you probably know, you can inport all fo your GMAIL contacts into Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Skype, and an million other products by simply entering your gmail email address and password. One really cool think that is beginning to happen - every so slowly - but people are beginning to use GmailL.com as thier primary email client [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:53-07:00February 5th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Rapportive for Real Estate
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Google is not out of the real estate listings business

The last few days have been full of Google noise in the real estate blogs and media. From our perspective, it has been a bit comedic. Google made a post on their blog about shutting down Google Base and everyone went into shock. Google Base was never a great idea. It was a project to aggregate real estate listing data because they could not get the listings by their standard methods - indexing. At the time that Google Base was created, Google Robots and Spiders were blocked from indexing real estate listings on nearly all property search websites. Realtor.com blocked [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:54-07:00January 29th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Google is not out of the real estate listings business
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Divided we get conquered!

Can’t we all just get along? Last week at Inman Connect in New York City, I was invited to share the Top 5 questions MLSs should address in the next year.  I reserved one of my five points to one of the key dysfunctions I have observed in our industry - Internal Squabbling.   As the market gets tighter and budgets gets strained, we see more and more examples of discord between real estate organizations supposedly all designed to serve the needs of real estate professionals.  In some regions we see local real estate associations engaging in predatory practices, trying [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:54-07:00January 22nd, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Divided we get conquered!
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Walmart Realty

If you don’t think that Walmart is in the real estate business - guess again. Walmart owns and manages one of the largest commercial real estate portfolios in the United States, representing tens of millions of square feet. So far, they have been purposeful about buying property for current and future store locations related to the company’s current and future needs. Walmart understands a lot about managing their staff, and communicating to consumers. Although representatives for the company would not comment, running a residential real estate office is rumored to be on the radar. Visit their website.

By |2018-05-03T21:25:54-07:00January 19th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Walmart Realty
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Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RML

Kurt von Wasmuth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2010 Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ RMLS™ Board of Directors promotes companys Senior Vice President   PORTLAND, Ore. RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, announced the promotion of Kurt von Wasmuth to President and CEO today. Von Wasmuth joined RMLS™ in 1998 as a Help Desk Technician and most recently served as Senior Vice President. He has also held management positions in training, communications and information services within the company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:54-07:00January 11th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Company|Comments Off on Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RML
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Keller Williams International to provide dotloop document management to all agents

Keller Williams has been very progressive at selecting products for mass adoption by their franchises, and more specifically - Keller Williams Agents. As an example, DotLoop has been providing an agent website and IDX to every agent through a partnership with Wolfnet. All of their franchise offices (called market centers) also receive an office website. In an effort to extend these core business services, Keller Williams has chosen the DotLoop document management platform as a standard product for all 80,000 of their agents. Press Release follows DotLoop Announces Nationwide Agreement With Keller Williams Realty 80,000 agents go online to increase efficiency [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:54-07:00January 10th, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Keller Williams International to provide dotloop document management to all agents
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The Realty Alliance Top 20

WAV Group Research launched WIN Reports in 2010. On a monthly subscription basis, we provide detailed market reports for MLSs and Brokers on consumer property search dynamics in their market, and contrast that with dynamics from markets around the country. Below you will find a few snapshots of The Realty Alliance Broker Traffic Report. Although we track all members of The Realty Alliance, what follows is a Top 20 summary. Of Particular note, Howard Hanna Real Estate has the most visited brokerage website in America. Congratulations to the team at Howard Hanna for overtaking the leading position formerly held by [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:55-07:00January 8th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on The Realty Alliance Top 20
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Technology Company Seeks New Product Manager

WAV Group has been retained to help Courthouse Retrieval System (CRS) recruit a new Product Manager, with knowledge of the real estate and/or banking industry, to work from the company’s Knoxville location, who will oversee development of the requirements and ongoing enhancements for each of the CRS products and also identify new areas for product development.   For more information or to apply for the position please contact Mike Audet at mike@wavgroup.com 716-839-4628, or Marilyn Wilson at 805-473-9119.  The full job description is listed below.         POSITION TITLE: Product Manager REPORTS TO: Chief Operating Officer CLASSIFICATION: Exempt [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:55-07:00January 6th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Press Releases, Product Management|Comments Off on Technology Company Seeks New Product Manager
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Zillow jumps to new, record highs

December yielded incredible results for property search upstart Zillow.com. They proudly reported that their property engine is hitting on all cylinders. On the traffic front, they saw a burst of traffic. Thanks in part to their partnership with Yahoo! and hundreds of local newspapers, 13 million consumers visited their website during the month of December. These are not only huge numbers, but they represent an impressive 77% growth over last year. For a venture-funded start up, they are on the right track. Along those lines, like their cross-town industry rival Trulia, Zillow posted a profit in 2010. They have officially [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:55-07:00January 3rd, 2011|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Zillow jumps to new, record highs
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