Clients Archives

Your Elected Friend
Your Elected Friend

Clients, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Company, Strategic Planning

Your Elected Friend

MLS and Association leadership brings forth an unusual ‘changing of friends’ on an annual basis. It is in the spring of each year that we begin to see these friendships take hold as CEOs arrive at NAR Midyear with their new Board Chairman in tow. It is all part of an important synthesis that takes place in our industry – one that often goes unappreciated. For five or more weeks each year, CEOs are on the road with their Chairman, building a friendship that is pivotal to a successful year, and in some cases, lasting a lifetime. WAV Group strategic [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:36-07:00May 13th, 2013|Clients, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Company, Strategic Planning|0 Comments

Warren Buffett Speaks About Home Services

Berkshire Hathaway is a company with $200 Billion dollars in net worth with 300,000 employees. It is one of the three largest companies in America, and according to Buffett, it is a company that is built to last forever. That is the way Berkshire Hathaway thinks. Build businesses that last forever. There is a great quote in this video, one I believe I have heard him say in the past, "You see who is swimming naked when the tide goes out." During the last four or five years of housing market adjustments, most companies played defense, but Home Services of America [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:38-07:00April 5th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Clients, Main category|3 Comments

MRED Gives Company Website a Facelift

MRED Launches the New Look and Enhanced Functionality of MREDLLC.com LISLE, IL–(Marketwire – Aug 20, 2012) – Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), announced that it has launched the new MREDLLC.com. This redesigned website gives real estate professionals across the Midwest a more interactive and user friendly site with which to learn about the extensive set of products and services provided by MRED, including easy access to its workhorse MLS system, connectMLS™. This new site is the place to find tools Realtors® can use and to get all of the information and training on how to use [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:54-07:00August 20th, 2012|Clients, Main category, Press Releases|0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stewart® Ranks in the Houston Chronicles’ Chronicle 100 for Top-Leading Companies

HOUSTON, TX (June 25, 2012) – Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) has been recognized by the Houston Chronicle as one of the best-performing companies in the Houston area. Stewart ranked 83 out of 100 in the Chronicle 100. The Chronicle 100 ranks publicly traded companies in the Houston area using four performance criteria for 2011. The score is based on the average of the rankings for these criteria: total revenue, annual growth in earnings per share, annual revenue growth and one-year total return. “Stewart has served the Houston market for more than a century, and we are truly honored to [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:56-07:00June 26th, 2012|Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Press Releases|0 Comments

IRES MLS “Lightens Up”

Lauren Hansen, CEO of IRES MLS in Colorado would agree with Charlie Chaplin when he said, "A day without laughter is a day wasted," for she and her team came up with some great ideas to "lighten up" their MLS website. Imagine this: You are an IRES MLS customer, and you hurriedly type in your username-incorrectly. Instead of receiving the usual boring error message "Username or Password Invalid", you get a different message; it reads: "Going incognito today? We aren't sure who you are!" "When I type in my password too quickly and I get the 'are you going incognito?' [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:57-07:00June 11th, 2012|Clients, Main category, MLS Insights|1 Comment

Texas Brokerages Go Paperless with the HAR-branded SureClose® Software

PRESS RELEASE: HOUSTON (May 14, 2012) PropertyInfo Corporation®, a Stewart company, announced today the successful adoption by Heritage Texas Properties of the Electronic Transaction Solution (HAR-ETS), powered by SureClose, to go paperless. Available only since January, Houston Association of REALTORS®'s HAR-ETS has already increased efficiencies for many of the organization’s 24,000 real estate professionals and their clients, and has enabled companies such as Heritage Texas Properties to remove paper from the closing process. “Heritage Texas Properties is committed to providing our customers with the most efficient and economical solutions available, and HAR’s Electronic Transaction Solution powered by SureClose has enabled us to vastly [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:00-07:00May 23rd, 2012|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, Press Releases, Product Management, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

Keys to RPR Adoption Case Studies Released Today

WAV Group provides consulting services to MLSs and Associations to develop strategies and plans for business success. Today, WAV Group is introducing a series of Case Studies developed for NAR’s REALTOR® Property Resource or RPR®. These Case Studies outline best practices for driving adoption of RPR as a REALTOR® benefit. WAV Group developed these best practices by evaluating RPR “power users” and “power promoters” of the software. Download MLS Case Study. WAV Group has followed the introduction and rollout of REALTOR® Property Resource (RPR) closely since it was officially introduced and then launched in September 2010. In previous papers, WAV Group [...]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:03-07:00May 8th, 2012|Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services, Technology Evaluation|1 Comment

TOP 5 AGENT & BROKER ARTICLES OF THE WEEK!

Note: If you do not have a RE Technology account, please contact April at april@wavgroup.com, and I will be happy to create a complimentary account for you. More than 70 MLSs and Associations offer RE Technology as a free member benefit - contact Melissa@retechnology.com for a program overview. RE Technology wants to support our MLS partners by highlighting articles that peeked the most amount of agent and broker readership. The goal of this effort is to provide content for MLSs to re-purpose to their members. Feel free to use these articles in any of your communication programs [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:04-07:00May 4th, 2012|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, Our Company, Our Services, Reports, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

Listings MUST include at least one photo, period.
Gallery
Listings MUST include at least one photo, period.

Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights

Listings MUST include at least one photo, period.

The attached article from Anastasia Wilcott, a frustrated real estate consumer, points out the pain that is created when listings are published without any photos. I read the attached article on RETechnolgy this week and it inspired me to talk about a big issue that could be remedied very simply: lag time in listing photos. Every MLS has their own rules about requirements for posting photos. Some require a photo within 24 hours, some are as long as 7 days after the listing is live. The current rules harken back to a time when a photographer was needed to take the shot, [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:05-07:00April 27th, 2012|Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights|0 Comments

Mike Audet Speaks at Realcomp’s Tools of the Trade Expo

WAV Group partner, Mike Audet, spoke last week at Realcomp’s “Tools of the Trade Expo” in Dearborn, Michigan at the beautiful Michael Guido Theater complex, in the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. Mike gave an Industry Update to the Brokers on numerous topics from Syndication and Shifts in Real Estate Technology to Data Licensing Opportunities. This event could well be the model for other MLSs to follow in providing great outreach support to the members. From the keynote address by BravoTV’s Jeffery Lewis, star of “Flipping Out” and presentations including […]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:08-07:00March 26th, 2012|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services|0 Comments

WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey Results

From September 23, 2011 to October 21, 2011 WAV Group fielded the WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey to participating MLSs. 66 MLSs, representing 33 different states and provinces participated in the survey at both staff and user level. 10,779 individual participants filled out the survey completely making it the largest survey of its kind. National survey information serves as a great foundation to show you how your system stacks up with other MLS systems and what users are saying about each of these systems. Thirteen vendor MLS systems had enough responses to be represented in the survey at both [...]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:22-07:00November 28th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Suveys and Research|1 Comment

MLS Staff and MLS Users See MLS Technology Differently

WAV Group recently completed our 2011 MLS Technology Survey where we received feedback from nearly 11,000 respondents, from 66 MLSs around the US and Canada. Most importantly, the feedback was from both MLS staff which is always important, and the actual users. In fact, we only included results for MLS systems that had both staff and user ratings. The results were very interesting! We will be publishing an Executive Summary of the results next week for download but one of the more interesting things we noted was that MLS staff and MLS users see their technology quite differently and [...]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:22-07:00November 23rd, 2011|Clients, MLS Insights, Our Services, Reports, Suveys and Research, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments