MLS category archives

Back on December 23, I wrote an article here on GeekEstate Blog about a Wordpress plugin that Diverse Solutions was developing that would allow IDX listings to be fully indexed by search engines.
Earlier this week, the plugin came out of beta testing and has been released for general availability.
Here is part of the Diverse Solutions [...]

For those of you in countries/markets without a MLS, you know your real estate market does not operate in the same way as it does in the US where a Multiple Listing Service is the norm.  At first glance things may appear the same – there are ‘real estate agencies’, ‘listings’, ‘property registrations’ and so [...]

Michael Wurtzer has a great post relating to the question of whether the costs of an MLS coverting to a standard format is worth the long-term benefits over at the FBS Blog that I thought many of you would probably find interesting — check it out.

I’m not sure about you, but I haven’t quite been able to grasp what’s happening in California with all of the data sharing proposals and MLS merger announcements that have been hitting the wire in the past year. I’ve now heard of Quattro, CARETS, and MLSAlliance, and now CALMLS, and I couldn’t figure out what [...]

I was asked to be on a panel at Inman’s Real Estate Connect this week in New York. Here’s the blurb from the Inman site.
Thursday, January 8, 3:50 pm – 4:35 pm MLS 2014: 5 things to do right now to get ready. Top visionaries share the 5 things you must be aware of to [...]

I attended the Legal Counsel Seminar at the National Association of REALTORS® convention in Orlando in November. One of the speakers there was Marcel Bryar, deputy general counsel and vice president at Fannie Mae. He spoke about Fannie Mae’s efforts to prevent foreclosures, handle short sales better, and handle foreclosures better. One thing he mentioned [...]

Many MLS systems across the United States have been critical of listing aggregator sites like Zillow and Trulia and they now have entered into the arena to try and take back a piece of the pie. MRIS, an east coast MLS (Multiple Listing Service) has rehashed their old public search system to be competitive with [...]

preface: I have been away from the blogging scene for far too long. The “Future of the MLS” topic seemed a perfect opportunity to throw my hat back in the ring.

A brief recap of the posts on the “Future of the MLS”:
Matt Cohen – Posted “MLS and the Future of Listing Distribution” way back in [...]

I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I loaded the Portland data into our own IDX system. I’ll [...]

Many people have already posted on this bit of news, namely Myron Adams (RESO Exec Director) here, Michael Wurzer on FBS Blog, Inman News, Masters Report, BloodhoundBlog, and more. But I will try to post the information here with links to more information where appropriate:
Philadelphia, April 11, 2008 – Members of the Real Estate Standards [...]

What a week for Prudential Real Estate, I guess scheduling a National Convention in New Orleans has spurred some sort of Revolutionary thought process or perhaps Bourbon St has “relaxed” the decision makers to the point where they have a new found understanding of Web 2.0. No matter what the reason, anyone working under “The [...]

About a month ago, the Houston Association of Realtors released a revamped [consumer-oriented] website. I tried to cover this release as objectively as I could, trying to point out the positives and the negatives from a REALTOR’s standpoint. In an effort to get the point of view of other fellow agents I posted something about [...]