Will Buyer’s Agents Survive?
Some would suggest that the buyer’s agent may not survive the next 10 years in our industry, but I am bullish on them remaining a vital contributor to real estate transaction services.
Stellar MLS is Live and Shooting for the Stars!
Stellar MLS has laid it down for other MLSs around the country to follow. They are setting a bar higher and higher for themselves to ensure that every product, service, contact, event, and marketing program is Stellar. They won’t stop until they get feedback in every aspect of their business.
Catalysts Creating WAVes of Fast Change in a Slow-Moving Industry
There are many pillars of change happening in the industry today, some more significant than others, driven by very different catalysts. Teamwork drives higher productivity and greater income.
CoreLogic Opens Access to Matrix Client Portal
In a press release last week, CoreLogic announced that they have opened up the integration to the Matrix Client Portal to Prospects Software.
There’s no I in the word REALTOR®
As leaders of Associations and MLSs, it is imperative that every Board member, CEO and Association Executive remember their core goal – to...
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.
MLS Fines for Charity?
What broker or agent could be mad about a fine that goes to charity?
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 [...]
MLS Policy Needs to Support Price Change History and Parcel Data on Broker Websites
For most people, real estate occupies the greatest percentage of family wealth – far more than investments in stocks or other wealth building accounts. Back in the 40s, my relative’s grandfather and his brother purchased a very modest two-bedroom cinderblock home in a nice neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida as a winter getaway. One brother ended up owning the property after his sibling and his wife passed. When the second brother passed, the property was inherited by his daughter, who is now 89 years old. She intends to either leave it to her grandchild or sell it and leave the [...]
Brokers Need to Weaponize to Combat iBuyer
Who is getting to the listing appointment first? Is it a traditional broker the first call for a listing appointment, or do consumers reach out to iBuyer programs like Zillow, Redfin, Keller Williams, Realogy, OpenDoor, Mark Spain, or others first?
MLSs Demand Broker Data Sovereignty
A battle was waged between MLSs and the National Association of REALTORS® against the Library of Congress, who administers copyright in America.
Three Untapped MLS Growth Opportunities?
To improve a business, it is common to focus on customer expansion, or delivering a wider array of services that your customers will pay for. For the last three years, Multiple Listing Service has been focused on consolidation (more customers) as a way of improving the MLS. Before that, the focus was on non-dues revenue. Three untapped areas for growth where most MLSs have not been successful are rentals, new home marketing, and commercial real estate. These are enormous categories in the real estate industry that have been asymmetrical because of the MLS core basis of cooperation and offer of compensation.