Playbook for building an MLS abroad
In every country without an MLS, the portals hold real estate professionals and consumers hostage for exorbitant advertising fees.
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10, 2024
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09, 2024
REAL AI: KW and practical AI, AI washing, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 38 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. KW and practical AI At the burgeoning Blueprint VC-tech conference in Las Vegas this week, I had a chance to meet with Chris Cox, Chief Technology and Digital Officer at Keller Williams. KW is the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count, with over [...]
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06, 2024
MLSs Not Endeavoring to Protect Broker Listings are in Copyright Breach
Because the MLS licenses the data from the broker, they must uphold their side of the bargain.
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06, 2024
Microsoft Bing Real Estate Portal in Violation of Copyright Infringement – MLSs Must Act Immediately
This may be a make or break moment for MLS.
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02, 2024
The MLS Copyright of Listings Challenge: Understanding the Balance Between Copyright Infringement and Fair Use
The realm of copyright law is a delicate balance between protecting the rights of brokers and fostering the dissemination of aggregated listings.
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06, 2023
Broker Public Portal Looking for a Technology-centric CEO
The Broker Public Portal (BPP), the most successful collaborative real estate industry initiative designed to help consumers research properties and connect with the listing firm, is seeking a Chief Executive Officer. The CEO will be responsible for driving the launch and growth of the company’s consumer facing website, mobile application, and suite of collaboration tools and integrations.
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01, 2023
Why Free Software is Best for Real Estate
The real problem solved by free software in real estate is product adoption and overlapping distribution. When you know the products being used by every agent regardless of source – Association, MLS, Franchise, Broker, self-paid, etc. – then you can visualize the roadmap for free vs. premium.
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05, 2021
MLSs Align to Purchase Tech Company Together
Five MLSs with a combined subscriber count of over 100,000 announced that they have pooled their resources and purchased a real estate technology company called Agent Inbox. As a result of the acquisition, these five MLSs will now have a solution that fits their mutual needs for a messaging-and-showing solution to serve their subscribers. Moreover, these five will be able to make their showing and messaging solutions available to other MLSs as a vendor.
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07, 2019
CoreLogic Shuffles Execs: Kevin Greene Heads HomeVisit; Amy Gorce Takes the Helm of the Alliance Network
CoreLogic announced the exciting realignment of responsibilities for some of their executives in an email sent out this week.
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05, 2019
Ten Years From Now – The Future of Real Estate and Everything
I am bullish on humanity making the right decisions, but most of all, I am willing to give up certain freedoms in exchange for allowing technology to blossom as a contributor to humanity.
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05, 2019
Where is the Real Estate App Store?
For mobile apps, it’s the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. But where is the app store for everything else? Where is Amazon for real estate tech?
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05, 2019
Preach to the Converted
Strategically, the very first dollar invested in supporting your business should be spent fixing the leak of lost, repeat, and referral customers. Somehow, that focus on customers is not happening in our industry today.