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CoreLogic 2012 User Group Meeting and Summit

WAV Group partner, Victor Lund will be attending the 2012 CoreLogic User Group Meeting and Summit in Chicago next week. The event looks to be information-filled with presentations that provide insight in guidance into the future developments of MLS systems that power about half of America's MLS. Some of the topics include updates on the ongoing development of the core functionality in Fusion MLS, Matrix, and Tempo. These systems are deployed to many of the largest MLSs in the country. CoreLogic will also be releasing information on advances in Mobile, Fusion CMA, Social Media, Fusion Contact Management, Fusion Stats Pro, [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:56-07:00June 13th, 2012|Main category, Strategic Planning, Suveys and Research, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

Marketlinx launches Mobile with Search and Edit

Somehow, we missed a memo. With very little fanfare or promotion, Marketlinx has launched their mobile solution and it claims to do most of the things that WAV Group claimed many MLS apps fell short on. We have had a lot of debates about MLS mobile applications. Some of us believe that it should be a fully featured MLS experience - allowing users to do any task on mobile that they could do on a desk top. Critics of this belief claim that adding a listing on mobile is absurd. I would concede that for now. But all pundits agree [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:00-07:00May 24th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|2 Comments

Mobile MLS

(This article ran previously in the WAV Group Newsletter released on Friday. We received feedback that despite our rant, some MLS iPad apps are quote good. If you would like to nominate an iPad app that is great, leave a comment below. It should, at a minimum, offer add/edit capabilities - adding photos would be a home run) Some MLS providers and Associations have heard just about enough excuses when it comes to mobile. Vendors have been dragging their feet on supporting full mobile MLS, and it is a real problem. Only one MLS vendor with more than a dozen customers [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:01-07:00May 15th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|0 Comments

MLSs and the Marketing Center
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MLSs and the Marketing Center

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MLSs and the Marketing Center

MLSs have long been a marketing center in some small way. Agents working with buyers and sellers create reports that are organized to provide listing information to clients. The reports are very useful, but aside from the ability to insert a broker logo, agent photo, and contact information, the design of these reports often falls short of achieving the goal of a well-branded and unique marketing piece. Some MLSs have begun to partner with providers to enhance or augment this MLS system functionality, and offer marketing systems that have full feature functionality. MRIS, Metrolist Colorado, MLSListings, MLSLI, and a handful [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:02-07:00May 14th, 2012|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights|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

Explaining an MLS App Store

I am not sure if anyone is allowed to use Apple's famous App Store name, but lets suffice it to say that the term App Store is familiar to most - so lets use that anyway. The key components of an App Store are Instant delivery, Platform Specific, eCommerce enabled. This is really important to understand because FBS truly is launching the first real MLS App Store. This is different from the RE Technology Success Store, which we call an App Store, but it is really an eCommerce solution. Let me explain: Instant Installation The key component of [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:05-07:00May 1st, 2012|How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning, Technology Evaluation|8 Comments

CoreLogic Executive Seain Conover provides insight

WAV Group partner Victor Lund interviewed CoreLogic® executive Seain Conover to learn his view of the MLS software business. Mr. Conover founded, and along with his dedicated partner, built up an MLS software development company called Tarasoft®. Last year, Tarasoft® was acquired by CoreLogic®. MatrixTM, Tarasoft’s flagship MLS platform brand continues to be offered globally. Why did you sell Tarasoft® to CoreLogic®? It is always fun to get the conversation started with a challenging question. If you know Seain, you know that he is a fairly reserved person with a kind heart, great work ethic and a big smile. He [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:06-07:00April 24th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|0 Comments

MLS Wins Mobile, or Fails the Agent

If you have been to a real estate conference in the past three years, you may have heard a session about mobile technology. Those strange phones that every person in America carries with them everywhere they go is also a computer. Only a few hundred million people know this secret today. MOBILE IS A CORE MLS SERVICE Sorry for shouting and pardon my sarcasm. Today’s MLS providers are failing to support agents (and consumers) with a mobile solution. This is not an opinion. It is a fact. We have surveyed agents everywhere in America, and at best, MLSs get a [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:07-07:00April 6th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|1 Comment

Reticence of luxury and second home market to join regional MLSs
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Reticence of luxury and second home market to join regional MLSs

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Reticence of luxury and second home market to join regional MLSs

We are lucky enough to work with brokers and MLSs around the country. It provides us with a unique perspective to notice trends that may not be readily apparent any other way. Here’s just one of the trends I have noticed in our work over the years. While many parts of the country have been successful in joining together to create highly successful and productive regional MLSs, there is one weakness I have observed again and again. Many times a luxury or second home market close to a larger metropolitan region will join the regional effort. I’m not going to [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:08-07:00March 23rd, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|2 Comments

Free WAV Webinar on Technology Adoption Keys and New “Free” Service for MLSs/Association

Real estate technology is changing in dramatic ways today at both the MLS and broker levels as we have detailed in recent white papers, “The Shift in Real Estate Technology” and “Real Estate Technology – Keys to Adoption”. MLSs and Associations now have more opportunities than ever to offer their members technologies that make their business lives easier and more efficient. A number of these new models for introducing the right software today are a win/win for both the vendors and the customers as they rely on “value selling” and often allow revenue to be realized on both the vendor [...]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:08-07:00March 20th, 2012|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

Is the MLS responsible for the Syndication Mess?
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Is the MLS responsible for the Syndication Mess?

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Is the MLS responsible for the Syndication Mess?

I give a lot of credit to the Council of MLS for their commitment to understanding the issues with listing syndication and formulating an effort to fix it. In the first place, the failure of many MLSs to understand listing syndication has been the cornerstone of the problems that exist today. Here is a little history lesson. In the beginning, only a few brokers with their own IT staff were able to supply a feed of their listings to publishers. When a broker has hundreds of listings or tens of thousands of listings like Howard Hanna, Prudential Fox and Roach and [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:10-07:00March 9th, 2012|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Strategic Planning, Technology Evaluation|2 Comments