WAV Group supports brokerages and technology companies with the proper licensing and use of multiple listing data. In a recent call with a new technology firm, we learned of a vendor named DATAFINITI.
Here are a few snap shots from their website regarding property data:
It does not look like they have any property photos on the website – or at least I do not see any on there. I am not aware of any of our MLS clients licensing data to this firm. It makes me presume that they are scraping it. Don’t you just cringe when you see information like this?
Hopefully at least one MLS (or many MLSs) will put a plug in this leaky bucket.
They’re crawling/scraping.
From their FAQs:
If you need to include a specific website in our data, you can request a “website buildout” for a nominal fee. Our team will build a web scraper for that website and start importing its data into Datafiniti. A website buildout typically takes 10 business days before initial data is available. The time to import all available data from a website will depend on how many URLs we have to crawl to cover the entire website.