CoreLogic Extends Trestle RETS Server to other Systems for FREE

It is RESO week. The week when CIO and CTO types gather together in Austin, TX for the Annual Real Estate Standards Organization meeting. This year’s conference was sold out for the first time with a rumored count of more than 700 participants. Kevin Hawkins of WAV Group Communications says that the environment and buzz at the conference is amazing. You can follow Kevin's RESO updates on Twitter @RESO_RETS  or follow the RESO hashtag at #reso15 to listen to the conference chatter. One of the astonishing calls that I got today was from an MLS asking me if CoreLogic was [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:31-07:00October 28th, 2015|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on CoreLogic Extends Trestle RETS Server to other Systems for FREE
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Tech Helpline Now Available to Orange County Association of REALTORS®

Some 13,600+ Agents Get Unlimited Tech Support from “Friendly” U.S.-Based Staff  Orlando, FL., (October 28, 2015) – California’s Orange County real estate agents are more dependent on technology to help them buy and sell homes than ever before, and now when a computer crashes or a smartphone glitches out, they can get immediate assistance. Tech Helpline, the real estate industry’s #1 tech support service, is a new, included member benefit available to more than 13,600 members of the Orange County Association of REALTORS®. These Southern California agents and brokers join nearly 400,000 REALTORS® throughout the U.S. and Canada that have [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:31-07:00October 28th, 2015|Main category|Comments Off on Tech Helpline Now Available to Orange County Association of REALTORS®
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Preparing for Success in the Coming Year

As we approach the end of another exciting year in real estate, now is a great time to sit back and reflect on the best ways to help prepare your members and organization for success next year. We have talked many times over the years about the importance of staying in touch with what is happening in the industry today. Here’s what can happen when an organization is out of touch: They can delay decisions because they seem difficult or controversial causing the organization to fall behind or lose its competitive advantage. Instead of responding to the waves of change, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Main category, Our Services|Comments Off on Preparing for Success in the Coming Year
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Lund and Cowen Discuss REDPLAN Prior Art and Forms Library

REDPLAN directors Victor Lund of WAV Group and Merri Jo Cowen, CEO of My Florida Regional MLS had a call to discuss REDPLAN’s new Prior Art and Forms Library. Lund: When did MFRMLS join REDPLAN? Cowen: MFRMLS joined REDPLAN a few years ago. I joined the Board of Directors shortly after. Lund: Why did MFRMLS join REDPLAN? Cowen: Our Board of Directors was motivated by the need that they see for this kind of non-profit entity. Among MLSs today, there is little education that delivers best copyright practices or collaboration for MLSs to fight patent trolls.  Our hope is that [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Main category|Comments Off on Lund and Cowen Discuss REDPLAN Prior Art and Forms Library
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WAV Group Partnering With MLSs On Zillow Survey

WAV Group is recruiting MLS and broker participants for a study to get an understanding of what these groups of people think about their relationship with Zillow. This study is funded internally at WAV Group. What do home buyers think of the service What do home sellers think of the service? What do renters think of the service? What do Property Managers think of the Service What do Premier Agents think of the service? What does Premier Mortgage think of the service? What do real estate brokers of all sizes think of the service? By participating in the study, you [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Main category, Our Services|3 Comments
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Broker Public Portal Update – October 2015

Many participants in the Broker Public Portal project were in attendance at the Council of MLS annual meeting in Kansas City. It was an extraordinary event, and one could not walk away without a sense that brokers and MLSs are communicating and working together better today than ever before. The BPP, LLC leadership in attendance was able to have meetings with prospective and partner MLSs, providing status updates on our progress.  We also spent the day before the conference to make progress on two fronts – the data license workgroup and the technology workgroup. Data License Workgroup Update Representatives from [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Main category|Comments Off on Broker Public Portal Update – October 2015
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Millennials and Home Buying Revisited

The great statistical debate continues on the impact of Millennials today on home buying. About a year ago, I wrote about the conflicting data (“Millennial Marketing Madness”) that argued Millennials were not going to drive the majority home sales in 2015 despite what marketers and self-interested parties were claiming. Fast-forward today, and it looks like the hardcore data was accurate and the marketers missed the mark. Today’s headlines have taken quite a turn from those we saw last year. Now those pundits who said Millennials would be driving today’s housing market are scrambling to explain why they are not or [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Main category|1 Comment
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3 Ways to Leverage Your PR

A potential client called recently to engage the services of WAV Group Communications. Typical to most initial conversations with many potential clients in the real estate industry is the misunderstanding of what public relations is. I assured him it was much more than simply writing a good news release and publishing it on a paid wire. That topic alone is another column. But the conversation reminds me of how little time PR people take to educate our industry about what PR is. To help in this effort, let’s explore a crucial area that shows how powerful strategic PR can be [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 27th, 2015|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Our Services|2 Comments
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Larson Skinner founder named to industry hall of fame

Minneapolis, October 19, 2015: Brian N. Larson was inducted into the Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) Hall of Fame at the CMLS Conference in Kansas City on October 8, 2015. According to CMLS, “The honor is a means of recognizing and acknowledging a lifetime of leadership, energy, and intellect that improves and elevates the real estate multiple listing service industry.” During its 58-year history, CMLS has been the trade association of the MLS industry in North America, now supporting 178 member organizations that serve more than one million subscribers. Larson is the fourth leader to be inducted into CMLS’s [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 22nd, 2015|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Larson Skinner founder named to industry hall of fame
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Upstream Agent Record

Many assume that Upstream is only about listings. In fact, there are six database categories that are contemplated for the application that solve a lot of problems for brokers of any size. The Need For A Single Agent Record Depending on the brokerage, the Agent Record – their office address, office phone, bio, headshot, cell number, social media profile, et. al. Agent Records are used in a lot of applications across the brokerage. Here is a partial list, but a common list for a brokerage of 1 agent in 1 MLS market. Broker Website/Agent Website MLS MLS Consumer Site Mobile [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:32-07:00October 22nd, 2015|Main category|2 Comments
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Pacific Union acquires The Mark Company

Pacific Union is a company of proud heritage in the San Francisco bay area. They are among the premiere brokerages spanning from Napa, through San Francisco, around the East Bay, and down into Silicon Valley. They have about 600 sales associates and approach $7B in sales. Today, they made an announcement that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Mark Company. The Mark Company focuses on marketing and sales for new housing developments. The combined company expects to represent over 22,000 units and $12B in sales. WAV Group wishes to congratulate both of these extraordinary companies on [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:33-07:00October 19th, 2015|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Pacific Union acquires The Mark Company
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Upstream Revealed

As many of you know, WAV Group has been working with a group of brokers and franchises for more than a year on a project called Upstream. Today, Upstream is a corporation with one of the strongest board of directors in our industry. It has been an honor to work with the board along with the CIOs and CTOs of their corporations to define the Upstream application and talk to enterprise level technology firms who have the capacity to deliver such an enormous solution. Until now, very little information has been shared openly across the industry. Until the company’s governance [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:23:33-07:00October 15th, 2015|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Our Services, Reports|1 Comment
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