Topping the Charts
Thanks very much to miOaklandCounty for selecting my Raging Regionals post for the 35th Carnival of Real Estate. My voice isn’t as pretty as Diana Ross or any of the...
Playing With Numbers
Point2 recently announced the addition of some real time stats (IE Only!) to their site. After reluctantly switching to IE so I could check out the stats,...
More Numbers Play
Clareity Consulting released its 6th Annual MLS Customer Satisfaction Survey today. Matt Cohen from Clareity did an excellent job again this year and really went the extra mile...
MLS Is More Than Technology
Yes, that’s right, FBS, a technology company, is saying that the MLS is much more than the technology we or others may provide. I’ll demonstrate...
eNeighorboods + Homes.com = ?
Realty Times reports this morning that eNeighborhoods has been acquired by Dominion Enterprises, the parent company of Homes.com, Advanced Access, Number1Expert, and related homes magazine businesses. I wonder if this acquisition signals a...
Founders at Work
I like to read. After I finish a book (well, a non-fiction book), I usually write up a summary for future reference or publishing on...
Easy, Breezy, Cover Girl
In my posts on Raging Regionals, I suggested that MLSs should consider focusing on the RETS 2 listing data standards as a strong step (leap) toward a distributed...
Regionals, Part II
First, a confession: I wrote Raging Regionals pretty late last night from my hotel room in Roanoke, VA, and, upon reflection, realize I could have been more...
Amidst the storm, a calm
I said in my first post that this blog was going to be about MLS, software and employee ownership. Recently, the posts have focused on MLS, but here’s a quick...
Raging Regionals
In my last post, I outlined three developing possibilities for toppling the current structure of MLSs in the United States: (1) emergence of one of the...
Death of the MLS?
Over the last year or two, many people seem to be talking a lot about the “death of the MLS,” which is acutely important to us as we...
Welcome!
Here’s what we plan to write about: Real estate multiple listing services (MLS). We’re interested in this topic because our clients are MLS organizations. There’s been a lot of talk...