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1 04, 2019

MLS Policy Needs to Support Price Change History and Parcel Data on Broker Websites

By |2019-04-03T07:28:14-07:00April 1st, 2019|MLS Insights|2 Comments

For most people, real estate occupies the greatest percentage of family wealth – far more than investments in stocks or other wealth building accounts. Back in the 40s, my relative’s grandfather and his brother purchased a very modest two-bedroom cinderblock home in a nice neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida as a winter getaway. One brother ended up owning the property after his sibling and his wife passed. When the second brother passed, the property was inherited by his daughter, who is now 89 years old. She intends to either leave it to her grandchild or sell it and leave the [...]

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29 03, 2019

REAL TRENDS 500 Report Released

By |2019-03-30T08:08:45-07:00March 29th, 2019|Broker-Agent Information|Comments Off on REAL TRENDS 500 Report Released

This year’s REAL TRENDS 500 REPORT is now released and available for view. The process that Steve Murray has followed in collecting the sales data for the report is rigorous. They collect the data directly from the franchise organizations and directly from independent firms.

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19 03, 2019

This Website is Not Secure!

By |2019-03-30T08:29:49-07:00March 19th, 2019|Technology|2 Comments

Over the last few weeks, we have been researching web traffic for 177 of some of the most productive brokerages in sales volume and sides. While we are still diving deep into the study, there was one stat which gave me grave concern; the number of broker websites which are not secure for a customer to login or to complete a form.

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19 03, 2019

Inside Real Estate’s kvCORE Platform Adds Robust Business Analytics to Help Real Estate Businesses Drive Bottom Line Results

By |2019-03-30T08:35:33-07:00March 19th, 2019|Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases, Technology|Comments Off on Inside Real Estate’s kvCORE Platform Adds Robust Business Analytics to Help Real Estate Businesses Drive Bottom Line Results

The latest technology enhancements to kvCORE Platform aligns with successful SaaS platforms in other technologically advanced industries

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11 03, 2019

Acquisition Hell: The Tech Investment

By |2019-03-12T10:09:22-07:00March 11th, 2019|Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Acquisition Hell: The Tech Investment

One company’s success becomes another’s pain. Mergers and acquisitions over the last few years have taken a toll on brokerages and their tech stacks. Finding means to protect highly invested tools is becoming more difficult. Maybe the first place to begin is with the contract.

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18 02, 2019

OpenAI Says New AI too Risky for Full Disclosure

By |2019-02-17T10:01:57-08:00February 18th, 2019|Business Intelligence|4 Comments

OpenAI has determined its latest research into language-processing AI models has high-risk implications if fully released to the public. A risk OpenAI has felt compelled to limit the amount of published information from this advanced research.

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4 02, 2019

REally! Agent Tool Usage Reporting is Behind the Times

By |2019-02-03T17:43:08-08:00February 4th, 2019|Business Intelligence|6 Comments

This week’s adventure found me looking at product usage reports from a bunch of technology companies. An MLS client was interested in gaining insight to members usage of their technology product offerings. All I have to say is, “REally!”

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17 01, 2019

HomeSpotter Acquires Open House Innovator Spacio

By |2019-01-17T11:20:03-08:00January 17th, 2019|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on HomeSpotter Acquires Open House Innovator Spacio

Love to see smart strategic moves in the real estate technology community like the one we saw today from Homespotter!     Aaron Kardell, one of the best and brightest and CEO of Homespotter just acquired Spacio. For those of you that don’t know them Spacio is a tool that helps make the lead generation that happens at Open Houses much more effective.   With this new combination agents will be able to generate leads from their mobile platform and make the time at Open Houses much more productive. Love to see solutions that make it easier for brokers and MLSs to [...]

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14 01, 2019

Let 2019 Be THE Year For Your Organization to Make Big Moves!

By |2019-01-14T15:22:08-08:00January 14th, 2019|WAVes of Change|Comments Off on Let 2019 Be THE Year For Your Organization to Make Big Moves!

Happy New Year!  At this time of year, we all have high hopes of making moves on the areas that we know to improve on. Many MLS organizations are worried they maybe falling behind and putting themselves at risk of becoming obsolete.

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14 01, 2019

Words Matter

By |2019-01-15T08:13:39-08:00January 14th, 2019|Main category, Our Services|Comments Off on Words Matter

Welcome to the New Year! Have you performed a PR audit? What does your brand say? The inspiration for this article came from the new Realtor.com ads. The language that Realtor.com is using is “The Home for Home Search.” My first reaction was way didn’t they use “Your Home for Home Search?” When a brand like Realtor.com comes up with a slogan for a multi-million dollar ad campaign, there is purpose behind word selection. I bet that they evaluated dozens of slogans, consumer tested dozens of slogans, and did legal review on dozens of slogans. 

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