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CoreLogic® Signs Multiyear Agreement with Realcomp

SANTA ANA, Calif., January 12, 2012 — CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today announced it has signed a multiyear agreement to provide multiple listing service (MLS) solutions to Realcomp II Ltd., Michigan’s largest REALTOR®-owned MLS. Serving nearly 11,000 members from more than 2,100 real estate offices in southeastern Michigan, Realcomp has selected the Matrix platform from CoreLogic to augment its current MLS system and to serve as its future replacement solution. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:16-07:00January 18th, 2012|Main category|Comments Off on CoreLogic® Signs Multiyear Agreement with Realcomp

New White Paper: What Does The Future Look Like For MLSs?

In this white paper, we explore what the future may look like for MLSs and steps they can take to make sure they position themselves ideally for their market.  It’s not a one-size fits all answer. To download the complete report, click here! MLSs have come a long way over the years and we have seen what were once small, localized operations formed by associations and brokers morph into more and more large regional organizations.  We have seen technology expand at exponential rates with the Internet and with that technology we have seen changes in the real estate market at [...]

New York Real Estate Group Forges Statewide Stats Partnership with 10K Research

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. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:19-07:00January 4th, 2012|Main category|Comments Off on New York Real Estate Group Forges Statewide Stats Partnership with 10K Research

New White Paper – How does age and technology comfort relate to performance?

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:20-07:00December 15th, 2011|Main category|Comments Off on New White Paper – How does age and technology comfort relate to performance?

MLSs Need to Move From Historic to Predictive Data

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:21-07:00December 8th, 2011|Main category|Comments Off on MLSs Need to Move From Historic to Predictive Data

WAV Group 2011 MLS Technology Survey Results

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 [...]

MLS Staff and MLS Users See MLS Technology Differently

  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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:22-07:00November 23rd, 2011|Clients, MLS Insights, Our Services, Reports, Suveys and Research, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on MLS Staff and MLS Users See MLS Technology Differently

A proposal to work together and create a national MLS Consumer site

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:25-07:00October 31st, 2011|Main category|3 Comments

Rhode Island State Wide Multiple Listing Selects Bridge RETS IQ Contact Server

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              [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:25-07:00October 26th, 2011|Main category|Comments Off on Rhode Island State Wide Multiple Listing Selects Bridge RETS IQ Contact Server

Keys to Technology Adoption in 2011 – New White Paper

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 28th, 2011|Main category|2 Comments

Shift in Real Estate Technology Webinar Slides and Recording

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. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 27th, 2011|Main category|Comments Off on Shift in Real Estate Technology Webinar Slides and Recording

Trulia announces new chief economist

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:25:28-07:00September 20th, 2011|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Trulia announces new chief economist