CARETS Takes a Break on New Members!

WAV Group learned today that Mike De Leon, the current Chair of CARETS for 2010 announced they will not be accepting any new members for the next six to nine months to get their house in order and to develop the necessary infrastructure to insure new members are brought onto CARETS without issue! Mike explains they want to insure that future growth is done in the right way with appropriate documentation as well as operations and procedure manuals. With over 100,000 current subscribers he points out that they still want to “…work with all potential new members toward a timely [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00January 8th, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Reports|Comments Off on CARETS Takes a Break on New Members!
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New Real Estate Book website review

The new Real Estate Book website provides and excellent value to their print advertisers - extending the effectiveness of print advertising to the internet.  They support consumers who start their buying or selling process by picking up a magazine.  They support their advertisers by providing a website that effectively competes for online consumers against the top sites for search engine optimization. The realestatebook.com had me from the word Arroyo.  The best online forms automatically ‘guess’ what you are typing as you enter each letter of text.  I love this feature - it makes me believe that the machine is thinking [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:19-07:00December 1st, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Main category|Comments Off on New Real Estate Book website review
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Listing Syndication – Be sure to read the fine print

After CMLS, there was a groundswell of discussion about the rights brokers are giving up when they send their listings to third party websites.  WAV Group went to school on the terms and conditions of several of the leading third party websites.  We were specifically focused on the rights to display, distribute and maintain listing data. We learned that in some cases the the broker is transferring the irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free license to use, retain, transmit, copy, create derivative work of, sell, or distribute the broker’s listing data to other parties or sub-licensees.  Bottomline, brokers are giving [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:20-07:00November 10th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Main category, MLS Insights|1 Comment
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Real Estate CRM Company seeks venture partner

For the past four years, Technology Concepts, a veteran MLS provider, has been developing a Customer Relationship Management product for the real estate industry.  The company has leveraged their experience serving MLSs, brokers and agents to architect and build one of the industry’s most advanced enterprise level CRM solutions. The product, named Eventus, is operational, installed and has realized outstanding results for the first tier users.  Now that the product is ready for full deployment into the market place, the company is seeking a business partner to fuel marketing and fulfillment.  The company will consider options from company or product [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:20-07:00November 7th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Marketing, Press Releases, Product Management, Technology Evaluation, Twitter for Real Estate, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off on Real Estate CRM Company seeks venture partner
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Green is the new Luxury

For years, many in real estate have established their marketing around niches.  Chief among them is the development of Luxury Home marketing.  New Research released by PR firm Edlemansuggests that Eco-Frienddly is replacing Luxury as a preference for consumers.  Here is a summary from their research provided by Marketing Charts. More than twice as many global consumers say they would rather drive an eco-friendly car (67%) than a luxury car (33%), and an even larger percentage would prefer to live in an eco-friendly house (70%) vs. merely a big house (30%), according to results from this years goodpurpose study, conducted by PR [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:20-07:00November 2nd, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Green is the new Luxury
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Industry Vet Joins Instanet to Lead Sales

Instanet Solutions, based in London, Ontario recently announced the addition of industry veteran Steve Mapes as their new Vice President of Sales.  Joe Kazzoun, who previously ran the sales group has taken on the position of Vice President, Business and Product Development.  Martin Scrocchi, CEO and owner of Instanet Solutions tells us that growth throughout their product line mandated the change.  “With our growing customer base, the increasing interest in Transaction Management products and businesses wanting to go “Green", the timing to bring Steve on was perfect.  We are also excited because this addition means Joe can focus on customer [...]

By |2009-10-23T12:46:19-07:00October 23rd, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Press Releases, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Industry Vet Joins Instanet to Lead Sales
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MLSs and Transaction Management – Take Small Steps First

Should your MLS provide Transaction Management services? In our recent study on Transaction Management Adoption, it is clear that many of the component parts of full Transaction Management are being used successfully today by a growing number of real estate professionals. The key point is that they are adopting this technology step-by-step.  Some vendors today offer the different component parts of Transaction Management separately, including: Internet Fax Document Management Online Forms/Contracts Transaction Scheduling/Managment Digital Signature Transaction Management technology makes sense for many reasons.   It provides better service to consumers, reduces risk and helps the environment. The problem, however, is that [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:21-07:00October 21st, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services, Product Management, Reports, Strategic Planning, Suveys and Research, Technology Evaluation|1 Comment
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Here comes Trulia with Expanded Services

As reported on Property Portal Watch, Trulia is expanding their service offerings to Agents and Brokers who seek to add more marketing power to thier consumer relationship on Trulia.com.  This move signals the emergence of Trulia as more than just a listing advertising outlet - but a technology provider of a variety of services that support the marketing of real estate listings, like Virtual Tours, and Reports on listing activity.  Visit Trulia for more detailed inforamtion about these offerings. The company will now offer Trulia Pro Deluxe ($79 per month), Trulia Pro Plus ($39 per month) and Trulia Pro Starter ($19 per [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:21-07:00October 13th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Here comes Trulia with Expanded Services
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Paperless Process Comes of Age in Real Estate

WAV Group has been tracking the adoption of online transaction processing software for several years.   In the 2005 WAV Group Transaction Management Adoption Study, we identified a number of factors that were inhibiting adoption of transaction management solutions and recommended steps to improve adoption.  We are seeing encouraging adoption increases throughout the country. The WAV Group 2009 Transaction Management Adoption Study surveyed over 1700 brokers and agents from 22 different MLSs.  In addition, we worked with major Transaction Management vendors to look at their product adoption trends over the last few years.  The result is a much clearer picture of where online transaction processing stands [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:21-07:00October 12th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Press Releases, Reports, Strategic Planning, Suveys and Research, Technology Evaluation, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off on Paperless Process Comes of Age in Real Estate
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Do Members Want a National MLS? Has Anyone Asked Them?

Over the past few years the topic of regionalization and data sharing has been high on the list for most MLSs.  During strategic planning sessions WAV Group facilitates this is always a major topic.  At every real estate convention you attend you can find a panel on regionalization and data sharing issues.  Even so, if you talk to 10 different people you may hear 5 different ideas on how to address these issues.  Difference in opinion is a good thing, but what we see in our industry, at times, are parallel attempts to address the same issue by different individuals [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:26-07:00June 17th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Do Members Want a National MLS? Has Anyone Asked Them?
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WAV Group partners selected as featured speakers on brokeragentspeakers bureau

Marilyn Wilson and Victor Lund, partners in the WAV Group, were recently selected as featured speakers by the Broker/Agent speakers bureau.  The speaker's bureau connects interested parties to over 100 speakers in the real estate and financial services industries covering hundreds of topics and offer keynote speakers, real estate seminar speakers, workshop leaders, breakout speakers and more.  Marilyn and Victor are frequent speakers at real estate industry events and now, though the bureau, are available to speak on a wide range of broker/agent services from brand management to the effective use of social networking.  For more information go to   www.BrokerAgentSpeakers.com

By |2009-06-16T14:12:41-07:00June 16th, 2009|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Our Company, Press Releases, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off on WAV Group partners selected as featured speakers on brokeragentspeakers bureau
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Sonic Eagle Agent Achieve Marketlinx

Agent Achieve is only offered to brokers – sorry agents 🙁 But the good news is that it is likely to be among the best agent tools available for brokers to extend to their agents today. Leading brokers whose agents get access to Agent Achieve include Intero Real Estate and Coldwell Banker Northern California. In essence, what sets this apart are the integrated features that allow agents to convert leads into business. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:54-07:00October 15th, 2007|Broker Technology Research, Main category|Comments Off on Sonic Eagle Agent Achieve Marketlinx
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