Elm Street Technology and This Old House Launch Co-Branded Digital Marketing Platform for Real Estate Professionals

Integration of Home Enthusiast content together with Real Estate search significantly improves the Consumer Experience and produces superior results for Real Estate Professionals August 1, 2017 – Greensboro, NC – Elm Street Technology and This Old House have just announced the launch of their co-branded digital marketing platform for real estate professionals. After months of testing, the Elm Street Technology and This Old House integrated digital marketing platform has generated best-in-class results for real estate companies and professionals including:Elm Generating new monthly Unique Visitors and Repeat Visitors Increasing Session Time per User Proven improvements in the quality and volume of Leads Generated [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00August 1st, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Elm Street Technology and This Old House Launch Co-Branded Digital Marketing Platform for Real Estate Professionals

CORELOGIC TRESTLE ACHIEVES RESO PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

IRVINE, Calif., July 18, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced today that clients of Trestle can now obtain Platinum-level data dictionary certification from the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO). Trestle™ is the national data marketplace created by CoreLogic to address fundamental data access problems experienced by real estate brokers, technology providers, and multiple listing organizations. RESO promotes data standards and processes that facilitate software innovation, ensure portability, eliminate redundancy and achieve greater efficiency for all real estate transaction parties. “CoreLogic is a strong supporter of real estate standards and has marched steadily toward the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 18th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on CORELOGIC TRESTLE ACHIEVES RESO PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

BrokerSumo Launches Integration with SkySlope

June 27, 2017 – For Immediate Release: BrokerSumo, a leading back office, commission management and accounting platform for real estate brokerages and agent teams today announced a new integration partnership with SkySlope. The partnership brings together SkySlope, an industry leading transaction management platform with BrokerSumo to make the process of managing and closing out transactions simple. The integration allows BrokerSumo customers to pull their SkySlope transactions seamlessly into BrokerSumo eliminating double entry of data, the potential for human errors when entering data and making the contract to close process more efficient. “Having SkySlope and BrokerSumo integrated has further automated our contract to [...]

By |2018-09-10T13:39:48-07:00June 27th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on BrokerSumo Launches Integration with SkySlope

FBS and Solid Earth Lock Arms to Provide Exciting New Service!

I just love it when technology truly helps make it easier for MLSs and brokers to deploy great technologies for consumers!  Today, FBS and Solid Earth are announcing a really exciting partnership that will make it MUCH easier for MLSs to help their brokers generate tons of leads and listing of exposure without spending ANY additional dollars! We talk a lot about data standards and their advantages, but sometimes it’s hard to understand the tangible value of APIs.  Today FBS’ Spark API and Solid Earth’s Spring platform have changed all that.   Because of their seamless integration, MLSs can now deploy [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:45-07:00June 21st, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on FBS and Solid Earth Lock Arms to Provide Exciting New Service!

Instanet Solutions Releases New TransactionDesk® App

Austin, TX – June 19th, 2017 – Instanet Solutions has officially released the new TransactionDesk App for iOS devices. The new TransactionDesk App is free to all current TransactionDesk users. The new TD App enables users to manage all of their listing, sales and lease transactions from their phones or tablets. With the TD App you can keep in touch and communicate with clients, share documents, create and fill in forms, prepare and send documents for eSigning and send documents for remote approval to ensure transactions are completed and finished on time, every time. All of the same functionality currently available [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:45-07:00June 20th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Instanet Solutions Releases New TransactionDesk® App

Broker Public Portal Announces Seven New Board Members

Arroyo Grande, CA, June 15, 2017 – For Immediate Release: The Broker Public Portal (BPP) is a thriving real estate industry initiative that is delivering benefits to about half of all real estate professionals in America today. The company expresses its gratitude for those who have served as leaders and welcome seven new members to its Board of Managers. “It is an honor to serve with so many great leaders of our industry to develop this company, and I am grateful for the time and commitment given by each of my colleagues that are stepping down from the board. I am [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:45-07:00June 15th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Broker Public Portal Announces Seven New Board Members

MLS Industry Veteran Tom Beede to Retire in July

We will miss you Tom!  There’s nobody that keeps the industry honest and accountable like you do!         Congrats to Bill and Bob and the rest of the team too! SACRAMENTO, California – Tom Beede, President, CEO and CFO of MetroList Services, Inc., has announced his retirement after more than 32 years of service with MetroList and over 40 years in the MLS industry. His retirement is set for July 14, 2017. “MetroList has been very fortunate to have such a visionary leader at the helm,” said Wayne Rose, chairman, MetroList Board of Directors. Prior to joining MetroList, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:45-07:00June 14th, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on MLS Industry Veteran Tom Beede to Retire in July

Paragon Partners With Zillow For MLS Features

According to a news release today, Black Knight Financial Services, developers of the Paragon MLS system and has partnered with Zillow for data management tools. Zillow purchased Bridge Interactive last year, a company that is well known for RETS servers (Contact) and listing input modules (Compose) for MLSs. As part of the alignment between the two companies, the release states that Zillow will be providing the technology to aggregate data from all of the hundreds of markets into Zillow’s data repository which Black Knight calls Property Information Central (PIC). This new system will act as the solution that will provide [...]

By |2018-08-12T08:02:37-07:00June 7th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on Paragon Partners With Zillow For MLS Features

Boston Logic Acquires Propertybase – Shakes Up Real Estate CRM Space

               Boston, MA — June 1st, 2017 – Boston Logic today announced it has acquired global real estate CRM and marketing software provider Propertybase. Propertybase provides a best-in-class brokerage and team focused CRM built on the Salesforce platform, serving clients in over 60 countries. Propertybase management and team of 48 will continue in their roles with the company. “The Propertybase team has built an impressive product and a global business,” said David Friedman, CEO of Boston Logic. “Built on the Salesforce platform, augmented with numerous CRM and marketing features tailored for real estate, the [...]

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HomeSmart Acquires Large Colorado Brokerage in Exponential Growth Move

HomeSmart has acquired Cherry Creek Properties, a large real estate brokerage serving the Denver, Colo., metropolitan area, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition makes HomeSmart the No. 1 real estate firm in the state based on agent count, according to the company. The addition of Cherry Creek Properties’ 1,500-plus agents brings the firm’s total agent count to over 13,000, and widens its reach to 123 offices in 16 states. HomeSmart and its franchises’ closed sales volume, combined with Cherry Creek Properties’, totaled more than $14.6 billion in 2016, with more than 53,000 in closed transactions, according to RISMedia’s Power Broker [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:47-07:00May 31st, 2017|Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases|Comments Off on HomeSmart Acquires Large Colorado Brokerage in Exponential Growth Move

Putting Storytelling Back Into a News Release

The art of storytelling is celebrated today as one of the most effective ways to communicate. When I first started practicing public relations, the most effective news releases were the ones that told a story. They were called feature news releases. I’m not sure what happened to them, but over the years, that term has all but disappeared from the PR vernacular. In fact, Google yields a paltry 5,700 search results for the term, which makes me very sad, as it once was the most effective way to get a reporter or editor’s attention. It was a great way to [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:49-07:00May 25th, 2017|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Putting Storytelling Back Into a News Release

ELM STREET TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF CONSOLIDATED KNOWLEDGE

May 23, 2017 – Greensboro, NC – Today, Elm Street Technology (EST) announced the acquisition of Consolidated Knowledge, a technology platform provider to the residential real estate and multi-family industries. This acquisition is the next step in EST’s ongoing efforts to consolidate the real estate industry’s leading technology and marketing service providers. Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of strategic moves EST has made in recent months to create a portfolio of marketing and technology products and services that, when integrated, offer a single technology solution providing lead generation to client retention services for agents, teams, brokers and [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:49-07:00May 23rd, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on ELM STREET TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF CONSOLIDATED KNOWLEDGE