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
RESO Standards Let MLSs Take Control in a New Way For the past few months I’ve been a bit quieter than usual on the blog because I’ve been working on a number of time-consuming projects including MLS regionalization, MLS selection, strategic planning sessions, and information security audits. But one very interesting project that has … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
