Report from Clareity’s 17th Annual MLS Executive Workshop

  A Short Preamble Clareity’s annual MLS Executive Workshop took place in Scottsdale, Arizona and, as it has every year, the event was sold out. Responding to our post-event survey, MLS executives made comments like: “Great event this year. Always the best networking.” “Informative and insightful. Can’t wait for next year’s workshop.” “As always – … Read more

Real Estate Association APIs and Data Standards

  Association management systems have traditionally been silos where most information about the member cannot easily be used to provide a custom per-member experience and solve other business problems. Also, many associations want to use “best of breed” solutions to provide service to members, and the lack of integration with association management systems has made … Read more

Preventing Screen Scraping: Policy, Contracts and Technology Evaluation

  When organizations create policy requiring screen-scraping and other automated attack prevention and monitoring, it’s important for those organizations to be specific enough to ensure that compliance with policy can be measured in some way.  Indeed, it is equally important for the organization to ensure that their technology contracts contain clear and explicit terms that … Read more

Computer Vision and Improving Real Estate Search

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Creates New Opportunities Last week I was on a panel at the RESO conference where we talked about software personalization as an important trend. Back in 2008, I wrote some articles about improving prospecting and real estate, one aspect of which was that we needed to get smarter about understanding consumer … Read more

Reducing the Risk of Real Estate Wire Fraud

  The Groundbreaking Definitive Paper on the Subject Ongoing bad publicity related to real estate transaction wire fraud threatens to damage the reputation of the real estate industry. Previous issue descriptions have been incomplete and have also not provided thorough guidance for those brokerages, title companies, attorneys, and others that engage internally in the wiring … Read more