RAPB and GFLR have merged to create the third largest Association in the country!
RABP and GFLR are at it again by creating an even larger footprint for their brokers in South Florida and the Treasure Coast Market!
MRED to deploy Artificial Intelligence to Improve MLS Data Quality
MRED has just partnered with Restb.ai, a leading edge AI company that specializes in making all types of elements of a photo searchable.
Exciting news coming from CRS Data!
I love to see companies with strong platforms put it all together to dramatically expand their footprint without losing the quality of service central to the CRS Data brand.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS Bolsters Marketing Team to enhance creative storytelling
It looks like NAR is taking its job of telling the REALTOR(R) story to consumers across America very seriously. They just hired a consumer content heavyweight, Alicia Bailey, to help enhance the way the REALTOR® story will get told via video, print, radio, and experiential marketing!
California and National AOR exit ZipLogix with Sale to Vista’s Lone Wolf
WAV Group believes that Lone Wolf now occupies about 90% of the forms management software market in the United States and Canadian real estate industry.
Century 21 Launches ListTrac For Analytics on Portal Marketing
In an email blast to Century 21 brokers and agents today, Century 21 released the Golden Ruler powered by ListTrac®, a reporting tool that allows sellers, agents, and brokers to see the engagement that a property is getting across the Internet.
Sam DeBord Becomes RESO CEO
The evolution of data management standards has been driven by generous contributions of the best minds in real estate technology, shepherded by Jeremy Crawford over the past two years. Today, WAV Group welcomes another great leader to RESO, Sam DeBord. His credentials are outstanding. The RESO announcement is important because MLS systems in America are the platform for data management in real estate. Since its inception, MLSs found their own path to creating data schemas, like data payloads, data fields, and data business rules. As brokers and agents have evolved their application diversity in their business from property search [...]
T3 Sixty Releases their Industry Rankings
In the same week, Real Trends released their Real Trends 500 broker rankings, RIS Media released their Power Broker rankings and T3 Sixty released their Mega 1000 ranking of the largest Brokerages, Franchisors, and Holding companies. For a large part, these firms use self-reported dollar sales volume and unit sales volume data from brokerages and franchises to construct the rankings. As we noted in our article about the Real Trends list, not all firms report. When you are missing data from companies like Weichert and Redfin, it skews the rankings. T3 Sixty provided their 2019 rankings to WAV Group and [...]
Why zavvie’s Offer Optimizer is an iBuyer Game Changer
When Zillow launched Zestimates, no one realized at the time how radical the impact of what they did then would become later. There are a lot of Sunday quarterbacks who would like to re-write history and say they knew it would result in helping to catapult the firm to $7 billion valuation. But no one predicted back then that Zestimates would fuel a phenomenon dubbed “real estate porn” that helped it drive more than 100 million unique visitors to Zillow’s website each month. Recently, another company that starts with a "z" called zavvie has launched what I believe is an [...]
bridgeMLS Supports 3500 Subscribers With Big MLS Service Levels
bridgeMLS®, serving the East Bay of San Francisco California, announced today that it has launched dynaConnections® responsive MLS solution, connectMLS™ to its subscribers.
CoreLogic and Homesnap Join Forces on Integration to Matrix
CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Homesnap
Inside Real Estate’s kvCORE Platform Adds Robust Business Analytics to Help Real Estate Businesses Drive Bottom Line Results
The latest technology enhancements to kvCORE Platform aligns with successful SaaS platforms in other technologically advanced industries