Clareity Security Solutions Now A Part Of CoreLogic Real Estate Solutions Suite

Technology Provides Seamless Authentication Across Multiple Platforms IRVINE, Calif., August 2, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced today that the company has added Clareity Security software solutions to its suite of Real Estate Solutions products. This addition expands the range of CoreLogic technology services to Multiple Listing Organizations and Associations in North America as well as product offerings for brokerages and their agents. Clareity® is identified as an industry leader in secure identity and access management.  Serving over eight hundred fifty thousand real estate professionals daily delivering over two hundred fifty application and service integrations. [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00August 2nd, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Clareity Security Solutions Now A Part Of CoreLogic Real Estate Solutions Suite

Imprev Hosts Stellar Learning Labs at Inman Connect SF

One of the greatest innovations that Brad Inman added to Inman Connect in recent years is a hidden treasure that not everyone may be aware of: the Learning Labs. These are held on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, August 9 and 10, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Learning Labs have become, in my experience, one of the best places where agents and brokers can learn tangible business practices that can be implemented immediately. A company that perfected the Learning Lab concept out of the gate is Imprev, a pioneering sponsor of the Inman Labs. Imprev, America’s largest real estate marketing [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00August 2nd, 2017|Main category|Comments Off on Imprev Hosts Stellar Learning Labs at Inman Connect SF

Elm Street Technology and This Old House Launch Co-Branded Digital Marketing Platform for Real Estate Professionals

Integration of Home Enthusiast content together with Real Estate search significantly improves the Consumer Experience and produces superior results for Real Estate Professionals August 1, 2017 – Greensboro, NC – Elm Street Technology and This Old House have just announced the launch of their co-branded digital marketing platform for real estate professionals. After months of testing, the Elm Street Technology and This Old House integrated digital marketing platform has generated best-in-class results for real estate companies and professionals including:Elm Generating new monthly Unique Visitors and Repeat Visitors Increasing Session Time per User Proven improvements in the quality and volume of Leads Generated [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00August 1st, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Elm Street Technology and This Old House Launch Co-Branded Digital Marketing Platform for Real Estate Professionals

BROKERS – How RESO Will Help You Become a GREAT Competitor Online

Brokers, even those that invest significant money in their online presence struggle to engage potential customers. In just about every market, brokers have taken a backseat to venture-backed sites that are constantly launching new bells and whistles to capture the attention of potential home buyers and sellers. There’s been a group of hard-working technology leaders at work creating the Real Estate Standards Organization or RESO, as it is called. This smart community of thinkers, led by many of the largest broker organizations including Keller Williams, Home Services of America, REALOGY, Watson, Crye-Leike, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, The [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00July 25th, 2017|Broker-Agent Information|Comments Off on BROKERS – How RESO Will Help You Become a GREAT Competitor Online

Ben did it again: A Look at America’s #1 REALTOR®

America’s number one real estate agent isn’t from Manhattan or Beverly Hills. You won’t find him when you’re filing through the programming guide for HGTV, and he’s never graced the cover of Real Estate magazine. He doesn’t cater to the rich and famous. Ben Caballero is the broker-owner of HomesUSA.com®, based in Addison, Texas, and sells new homes to Texans for more than 60 top builders in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Ben is not only arguably, real estate’s most successful agent, he may well be its most unconventional one. The World’s Most Successful Agent On the success side, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00July 25th, 2017|Main category|Comments Off on Ben did it again: A Look at America’s #1 REALTOR®

CORELOGIC TRESTLE ACHIEVES RESO PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

IRVINE, Calif., July 18, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced today that clients of Trestle can now obtain Platinum-level data dictionary certification from the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO). Trestle™ is the national data marketplace created by CoreLogic to address fundamental data access problems experienced by real estate brokers, technology providers, and multiple listing organizations. RESO promotes data standards and processes that facilitate software innovation, ensure portability, eliminate redundancy and achieve greater efficiency for all real estate transaction parties. “CoreLogic is a strong supporter of real estate standards and has marched steadily toward the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 18th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on CORELOGIC TRESTLE ACHIEVES RESO PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

Don’t Miss Leveraging High-Quality Content to Engage Online Consumers

WAV Group will be hosting a free webinar on August 1st at 10:00 am PDT focused around how MLSs like the Georgia MLS and leading brokers like Century 21 Dumont are leveraging video to drive consumer engagement. The webinar is designed to address the needs of MLSs and Large brokers with more than 100,000 website visits a month. If you operate a big site, you will want to attend. We will hear about how MLSs and brokers are partnering with This Old House, and how they are leveraging their extensive library to enhance the consumer experience, extend visitor time on site, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 17th, 2017|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Don’t Miss Leveraging High-Quality Content to Engage Online Consumers

Did you miss RESO, RETS Standards, and You: News from the RESO Certification Front?

MLS data services for brokers, agents, and their technology providers are changing at a very rapid pace. The RETS Standards that are used by an estimated 97% of IDX and VOW solutions are converting to the RESO Web API. Being informed about this conversion is vital to the effective management of data feeds. WAV Group Partner, Victor Lund is joined by CEO of the Real Estate Standards Organization, Jeremy Crawford as he discussed the challenges and opportunities he’s hearing first-hand from brokers and technology vendors as they move toward receiving standard feeds. Did you know that RESO certification must be [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 13th, 2017|Main category|Comments Off on Did you miss RESO, RETS Standards, and You: News from the RESO Certification Front?

Zillow Protects Broker Data

WAV Group supports brokers and MLSs in constructing data licensing agreements with users of data records that belong to the broker. When a company like Zillow ingests broker data, likeZILLOW340x230 all recipients, they must adhere to the data license agreement which typically requires that you cannot allow the data to be used by a third party. The blog McMansionHell.com is learning the hard way that using data from Zillow without proper authority is a copyright violation that Zillow will pursue. Not only will Zillow pursue the violation, but they may be contractually bound to pursue the violation. The media around the case is [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00June 28th, 2017|Main category|Comments Off on Zillow Protects Broker Data

Don’t Miss Out!

We are officially midway through 2017, now is a great time to sit back and reflect on the year so far and to begin preparing your organization for the inevitable evolutions we will experience throughout coming months and into 2018. Do you sometimes feel like your Board of Directors and key staff could benefit from a WAV Group overview of what is happening in the real estate industry today? Could your organization benefit from an information resource like WAV Group to characterize the rapid change in our industry?     Would you like an informed review of how similar MLS [...]

By |2018-11-08T04:03:09-08:00June 21st, 2017|WAVes of Change|Comments Off on Don’t Miss Out!

Google Local Guides Are Great For Real Estate

  If you remember the rage about FourSquare years ago, its coming back again. But this time, Google is leading the way to create local experts and Google Maps is the platform. So set up your account on Google Local Guides and get going! If you participate a lot, (hit 50 reviews), you will be highlighted as a top reviewer on Google Maps for Apple’s iOS and Android. Why?   Well, that is only something that you can answer. Like so many other social media strategies, it needs to be something that you enjoy doing. Also, consider this – Google Maps is [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:45-07:00June 13th, 2017|Main category, Marketing|Comments Off on Google Local Guides Are Great For Real Estate

Big Data Can Drive Bigger Broker Margins

WAV Group spends a lot of time consulting with brokers on how to re-margin their business. We published a paper in 2013 called Harvesting Business From Broker Data.  That paper characterized the methods that we developed with a number of brokers to harvest business from across the enterprise of title, mortgage, residential, relocation, insurance, commercial, and property management businesses. It has worked very well for many brokers to recapture repeat transactions and new business though cross sell. In many ways, the rethinking that went into the thesis around harvesting business across the enterprise was the first intellectual break from the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:46-07:00June 9th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on Big Data Can Drive Bigger Broker Margins