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 … Read more
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 … Read more
How Many Times Must a Tech Provider Download the Same Listings? I received a call recently from an MLS administrator who wanted to talk about a RETS issue that had been bothering him. His MLS charges a small fee to subscribers for a RETS feed; the fee covers the costs related to the feed, … Read more
One of the exciting changes in the RETS community has been the formation of the “Research and Development Workgroup” (R&D WG), which solicits and review submitted business cases from the real estate community and identifies how RESO can contribute to the benefit of that business process. The submitted cases are reviewed with representatives from … Read more
Improving Security While Gaining Efficiency Through Standards Introduction and Executive Summary Real estate professionals are using more systems and applications than ever, and they don’t want to have to log into each one separately. The inconvenience and inefficiency of multiple logins are exacerbated when users have to go back and forth between one system … Read more
