Comments on: Participants of the Real Estate Standards Organization Agree on Syndication Standard for Distributing Real Estate Listings http://www.geekestateblog.com/participants-of-the-real-estate-standards-organization-agree-on-syndication-standard-for-distributing-real-estate-listings/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:23:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: What will MLS data standards do for the consumers? | Real Central VA http://www.geekestateblog.com/participants-of-the-real-estate-standards-organization-agree-on-syndication-standard-for-distributing-real-estate-listings/comment-page-1/#comment-10331 What will MLS data standards do for the consumers? | Real Central VA Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:10:43 +0000 http://www.geekestateblog.com/participants-of-the-real-estate-standards-organization-agree-on-syndication-standard-for-distributing-real-estate-listings/#comment-10331 [...] the recent talk of how forthcoming data standards are going to make property data sharing more efficient and thus better for consumers and Realtors, [...] [...] the recent talk of how forthcoming data standards are going to make property data sharing more efficient and thus better for consumers and Realtors, [...]

]]> By: Ben wong http://www.geekestateblog.com/participants-of-the-real-estate-standards-organization-agree-on-syndication-standard-for-distributing-real-estate-listings/comment-page-1/#comment-10327 Ben wong Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:16:22 +0000 http://www.geekestateblog.com/participants-of-the-real-estate-standards-organization-agree-on-syndication-standard-for-distributing-real-estate-listings/#comment-10327 RETS is a good start. However, it is too complex. If the goal is to distribute information to "real estate advertising websites" then it is way overboard. What I would really like to see is a LRETS, a lightweight real estate transaction standard. Use REST and a simple XML schema and you're done. Give me a user/pass, and a REST interface into the listings and away I go. For the purpose of publishing listings for advertising purposes, there's no need to be so thorough. If the industry really wanted to make a major impact it should teach agents how to produce better, cleaner data. RETS is a good start. However, it is too complex. If the goal is to distribute information to “real estate advertising websites” then it is way overboard.

What I would really like to see is a LRETS, a lightweight real estate transaction standard. Use REST and a simple XML schema and you’re done. Give me a user/pass, and a REST interface into the listings and away I go.

For the purpose of publishing listings for advertising purposes, there’s no need to be so thorough. If the industry really wanted to make a major impact it should teach agents how to produce better, cleaner data.

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