Minneapolis, MN (January 4, 2012) – The New York State Association of REALTORS® (NYSAR) and 10K Research and Marketing are pleased to announce the February 2012 launch of a statewide housing market reporting partnership using combined data from Multiple Listing Services from throughout New York State. […]
Download – A deeper look at data from the WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey From September 23, 2011 to October 21, 2011 WAV Group fielded the WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey to participating MLSs. 66 MLSs, representing 33 different states and provinces participated in the survey at both staff and user level. 10,779 individual participants filled out the survey completely making it the largest survey of its kind. At the conclusion of the 2011 survey, WAV Group published the 2011 MLS Technology Survey Executive Summary providing the rolled up results as well as some interesting statistics. We highlighted [...]
The data we use in the real estate industry to understand market trends and to help buyers and sellers in their real estate transactions is largely historic. Another way to look at that, is, it is dated, old news. We have real estate markets today that are changing very quickly. Changes may be driven by high numbers of distressed property sales, REOs, short sales, and foreclosures etc. or normal market activity but the results are the same. Much of the real market activity in the form of offers is currently invisible. This means there may be a huge amount of [...]
From September 23, 2011 to October 21, 2011 WAV Group fielded the WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey to participating MLSs. 66 MLSs, representing 33 different states and provinces participated in the survey at both staff and user level. 10,779 individual participants filled out the survey completely making it the largest survey of its kind. National survey information serves as a great foundation to show you how your system stacks up with other MLS systems and what users are saying about each of these systems. Thirteen vendor MLS systems had enough responses to be represented in the survey at both [...]
WAV Group recently completed our 2011 MLS Technology Survey where we received feedback from nearly 11,000 respondents, from 66 MLSs around the US and Canada. Most importantly, the feedback was from both MLS staff which is always important, and the actual users. In fact, we only included results for MLS systems that had both staff and user ratings. The results were very interesting! We will be publishing an Executive Summary of the results next week for download but one of the more interesting things we noted was that MLS staff and MLS users see their technology quite differently and [...]
We recently received an interesting white paper/article from the CEO of the CTMLS, Cameron Paine, on the rationale for creating a national MLS consumer website. Cameron raises some very interesting ideas in his paper which you can read in its entirety on this post. This article highlights something WAV Group brings up at every strategic planning meeting and every conference we attend…we spend too much time in our industry working against each rather than cooperating. Separate agendas are being pushed at every level from national to state to local. There is an urgent need for our industry to work together [...]
Rhode Island State-Wide MLS announced this week that they have chosen to work with the Bridge Interactive Group to manage their RETS data process. Mike Letendre, Chief Information Officer at State-Wide MLS, noted they chose Bridge Interactive for “…its advanced reporting tools, ability to control access to our listing database, ease of use, and affordability”. Bridge offers solutions for listing syndication control, RETS data usage and monitoring, account management and billing, and add/edit functionality via its RETS IQ product suite. Bridge technologies are used by MLS System Vendors, MLSs, Brokers, and more than 280,000 agents. Press Release [...]
Keys to Technology Adoption in 2011 Anybody that understands our industry knows the average broker and agent hate to change the way they do things. The idea of change creates questions and insecurity. We all get comfortable with our old familiar ways. The idea of having to learn something new, like a new technology, is not very attractive. “If it ain’t broke why fix it”, as the saying goes. But what if it is broke? Or, what if there are just really much better ways to do things or technologies that really do improve our business? How do we get [...]
Missed our webinar? Slides are now available. WAV Group recently hosted a webinar on the topic of the “Shift in Real Estate Technology” . Hosted by Victor Lund co-founder of the WAV Group, three panelists, Mike Audet, co-founder of the WAV Group, Harper Thorpe, VP of broker services for CoreLogic and Alan Scearce, COO and Executive Vice President of Prudential California Realty shared their thoughts on the changes we are seeing in real estate technology and the implications it has for both vendors and real estate professionals. […]
Press Release TRULIA NAMES JED KOLKO AS CHIEF ECONOMIST Leading Housing Expert to Translate Economic Trends, Real Estate Data and Public Policies, Enabling Trulia to Provide Even More Vital Insights to Homebuyers, Sellers and Renters SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, 2011 – Trulia today announced the appointment of Dr. Jed Kolko as chief economist. As the chief economist of Trulia, Jed will lead the company’s housing research and provide insight on market trends and public policy. He will also advise the development of Trulia Estimates and create new derivatives of Trulia’s data to help more consumers make smarter decisions about where they want [...]
Having read Dale Ross’s recent post that noted RPR was “hitting a wall of entrenched attitudes…” etc., that was keeping them from meeting their goals I was a bit surprised. I was surprised because in many ways I thought RPR had a pretty good year with the addition of some of the big boy MLSs that had been standing on the sidelines, while this post seemed to highlight what isn’t working. My take on RPR, before the post, was that now was the time for RPR to ride their recent signings and begin […]
WAV Group is pleased to introduce Sean Heidinger as the newest member of the WAV Group team. Sean brings a wealth of entrepreneurial and business experience to WAV Group and has joined the company as Executive Assistant to Mike Audet in our east coast office. […]
