The Clareity25 MLS workshop celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, uniting over 300 attendees under the theme "Dare Greatly." Highlights included a technology trends update from founder Gregg Larson, featuring insights from CES, and a legal panel discussing MLS rules and antitrust concerns.
With the removal of compensation from the MLS and so much uncertainty in real estate, MLSs must decide what components of their value proposition to focus on to step up their game and communicate the tangible benefits they deliver. MLSs must lean in to find AI tools that make the jobs of agents easier and more productive. They must also remember that all agents are not created equal. Providing a choice with MLS systems, the core tool offered by MLSs is one significant way to ensure you are meeting the diverse needs of your MLS customers. True MLS of Choice, however, isn’t [...]
In the real estate industry, we thrive on connections – between agents, clients, and data. For MLSs, seamless data sharing isn't just a convenience; it has become necessary to stay competitive as geographic borders disappear, creating an even more interconnected marketplace. Even with the reduction of MLSs across America, overlapping market disorder continues to plague data management for brokers spanning multiple markets. MLSs can better serve their broker clients by fulfilling the need for efficient tools to break down data silos and deliver access to broader listing pools. Traditional data-sharing models have often been a roadblock. Costly, time-intensive data-sharing connections [...]
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 44 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. AI in real estate: Will CRE lead the way? One real estate tech truism that has endured since I’ve been in the business is that the most advanced technology gets adopted in the Commercial Real Estate industry well before residential real estate. Often, the determining [...]
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 36 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Zillow’s AI stumble Real estate agents often get very excited when they first read about an AI breakthrough they believe can help them. They download the app or AI agent, but too often, the promised AI feature does not deliver, and elation turns to frustration. [...]
The visionary leaders at Arab MLS, led by founder Ahmed Elbatrawy, are delivering sophisticated business solutions to real estate professionals and transforming home buying and selling in Arab nations. A cornerstone of Arab MLS’s business solutions is CoreLogic’s Matrix, the No. 1 listing management platform in North America. Now expanding into the Middle East, including Egypt and the UAE, Matrix offers Arab MLS real estate professionals—for the first time—a single source of truth property record database and more effective land record management. Core MLS listing input and search functionality, data syndication, client portal, statistics, and market analysis are all provided, [...]
Ben Caballero is an improbable and incomparable real estate legend. How can an individual real estate agent based in Texas sell an average of more than 19 homes daily, every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays? Again, 19 homes a day, times 365 days last year, would be 6,935 home sales. Ben sold 7,012 homes in 2023. He is the sole listing agent on every sale, verified by every Multiple Listing Service he works with in Texas. He does not work with any other agent or team at HomesUSA.com, the brokerage where he also is CEO and founder. [...]
Kevin Greene, Executive, General Manager of CoreLogic's Real Estate Solutions With a new venue, fresh, cutting-edge content, a stellar lineup of industry experts, thought leaders, and legends – plus a sellout crowd featuring the Who's Who of the MLS world – all the right ingredients were in place to make this year's CoreLogic Clareity24 a best-yet event. And it delivered that – and much more. Kicking off 2024 Clareity24 marked the inaugural event for Kevin Greene, the newly announced leader of CoreLogic's Real Estate Solutions group, as its new Executive, General Manager. Kevin's been a mainstay at Clareity [...]
Today, CoreLogic launched a vital and timely new security platform – Clareity Assure – now available to integrate as a front door to all MLS systems regardless of vendor. It is precisely the kind of protection MLSs need and must have in place. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning for its adaptive authentication protection. It can identify suspicious activity and, most importantly, selectively deploy multi-factor authentication. By monitoring login activity in real time, it can automatically detect when login exceeds an acceptable risk threshold. Last year was a wakeup call for MLSs and security. The timing by CoreLogic could not [...]
WAV Group conducts more subscriber satisfaction research for MLSs than anyone else in the country, including our industry first Customer Experience Index. We have a depth of understanding of the key drivers of satisfaction and perceived relevance for MLS organizations. Here’s the 5 key opportunities for improving your MLS’ satisfaction and relevance as you move into 2023: Go TO Your Members Create a Field Support/Training Team There is NOTHING that drives up customer engagement and satisfaction for MLSs more than a team of customer servants that go out into the field, attending office meetings, broker events and community events. These [...]
The Northwest Indiana REALTORS® Association Multiple Listing Service is looking for its next progressive Director of MLS to take the 4,000+ subscriber MLS to its next level of prosperity, relevance, and growth. In 2022, NIRA MLS helped facilitate nearly 11,000 transactions representing approximately $3.5 billion in sales volume.
Agents know that photos are one of the key ways to effectively promote a property, yet many limit the number of photos they upload to the MLS because the process can be very onerous. Bright MLS, after soliciting input from their subscribers about the best ways to simplify the process of setting up a listing, has made it a LOT easier to upload photos now.
