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MLS Regionalization: Beyond the Needs of Any One MLS

2MayMatt CohenProfessionalconsolidation, mls

It’s Not Just About Overlapping Market Disorder I was talking the other day with my friend Kevin McQueen about MLS consolidation and regionalization. Both of us help MLSs through the process, and we like to talk and share our experiences with each other in order to help our clients better and move the industry

MLS Regionalization: Breaking Through

25AprilMatt CohenProfessionalconsolidation, mls

Consolidation of MLSs Requires Process In part one of this article (“MLS Regionalization: Setting the Goal“) Clareity outlined the criteria for determining the future “end game” for MLS consolidation. In this part, we will describe Clareity’s process for MLS consolidation and regionalization and how we overcome some of the common objections to consolidation during

MLS Regionalization: Setting the Goal

19AprilMatt CohenProfessionalconsolidation, mls

Aim Before Your Fire Why are there still so many MLSs? I’d argue it’s mainly because we don’t have the answer to other questions: How many MLSs should there be, and where are their borders? Should there be six MLSs? 30? 60? 100? One? Can anyone be held to account for not meeting a

Standards Can Put Brokers in the Lead Management Driver’s Seat

12DecemberMatt CohenProfessionalbrokerage, standards

Why Brokers Need to Get Involved in Real Estate Standards Brokers are just starting to get involved in the real estate standards efforts at RESO but haven’t yet begun to push for any strategic initiatives. Earlier this month I posted about how brokers would beneﬁt from RESO coming up with standards for measuring how

Critical Unasked Questions about Measuring Real Estate Online Advertising

1DecemberMatt CohenProfessionalstandards

Brokers and agents need data on how advertising site visitors are interacting with listings, and there are a number of players in the real estate industry competing to provide this data. Each provider is tracking different things in different ways, and getting different advertising sites to implement their tracking mechanisms with little overlap. The