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Principles of MLS Service

3MarchMatt CohenProfessionalmls, strategy

What Should the Scope of MLS Services Be? At the 2013 Council of MLS conference, The Realty Alliance (TRA), a group of large brokerages, put MLSs on notice that a number of MLS practices were angering some participant ﬁrms. In TRA’s brokers’ eyes, MLSs were providing products and services out of the MLSs’ scope

Real Estate Document Management in 2012

12NovemberMatt CohenProfessionaltechnology, transaction management

Clareity Consulting has always been of the opinion that online transaction management – especially document management – has been a critical technology for the real estate profession. This paper examines the real estate document management space in 2012, how the solutions providers and their products are differentiated, ongoing challenges to success of the category,

VOW and IDX Rules: Security Compliance in the Trenches

18AprilMatt CohenProfessionalcompliance, mls, security

As a consultant often called on by MLSs for help with VOW and IDX compliance audits as someone who is always pushing for improved information security in the real estate industry, I love that information security is featured prominently in the VOW rules, section 19.5: “A Participant’s VOW must employ reasonable efforts to monitor

Expanding Agent-Client Collaboration in the MLS

7MarchMatt CohenProfessionalmls

Buyers and Sellers Deserve Better Agent-Client collaboration inside the MLS has mostly been stalled since 1998, when MLS systems ﬁrst started providing an area for clients to view agent-saved searches and suggested listings and provide listing ratings back to the agent. Since that time, some systems have added minor enhancements, such as built-in messaging

Tying Concerns in the Real Estate Industry

7MarchMatt CohenProfessionallegal

Important Considerations When Adding Products and Services Clareity was privileged this year to have an amazingly smart yet approachable anti-trust attorney, Claude Szyfer, speak at the 2012 MLS Executive Workshop. There are potentially anti-trust considerations for real estate industry organizations in day-to-day operations and policy making, especially as they expand the scope of products