Spring has sprung in the Greater Chattanooga area. Solid Earth launched a stunning consumer facing MLS website today. It leverages responsive design, providing an optimized user experience across all browsers, all operating systems, and works great on all smart mobile devices. The search is front and center, and agent and broker branding are nicely attributed to listings. They also developed a very clean method for displaying the neighborhood market statistics. Solid Earth is the only vendor that has made a full paradigm shift with their approach to MLS technology.  Spring on MLS is the same interface for Spring for the [...]

Mobile Realty Apps has experienced outstanding growth over the past 12 months and has established itself as a leader in mobile technology for MLSs and real estate companies.  Winner of the 2012 “Most Innovative Real Estate Startup” at the Inman Conference in July 2012, Mobile Realty Apps offers a full set of leading edge mobile products for real estate professionals and the consumers they serve, from their custom branded native apps to their augmented realty technology HomeSpotter. Mobile Realty Apps is currently interviewing individuals who will lead their  sales to MLSs  nationally.  This individual will work closely with the national Broker sales manager [...]

  For years now we have been pointing out that in the not too distant future mobile technology will be the most important part of an MLS system.  In fact, we have noted that mobile technology will, in fact, be the MLS system.  That distant future is here and mobile is finally coming of age.  We are seeing more advances in MLS mobile technology over the last year or so than we have seen since mobile was introduced.  These advances in mobile, however, also bring some very interesting questions. All MLS vendors today have some form of a mobile solution. [...]

CoreLogic released their projections on Shadow Inventory for 2013 which indicate good news for all in the housing industry.  The new numbers show a 12.3% drop from October 2011. Shadow Inventory Seen as Manageable in 2013 Current residential shadow inventory as of October 2012 fell to 2.3 million units*, representing a supply of seven months. The October inventory level represents a 12.3 percent drop from October 2011, when shadow inventory stood at 2.6 million units. Click here to download the full Shadow Inventory report. Data Highlights  As of October 2012, shadow inventory fell to 2.3 million units, or seven months’ supply, and [...]