Comments on: Day One – Realtor Mid-Year

By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » The MLS Coffin - one stake at a time

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:05:51 +0000

[...] When I was at the Virginia Association of Realtors Legislative conference a few weeks ago, I sat in on a presentation that touched on the NAR MLS working group on which I had the privilege to serve. At the table I was sitting, several of my classmates from the Leadership Academy were a bit confused – it’s hard for two people to compress months of meetings into twenty minutes – and this is the example I gave them: What if Keller Williams, Century 21 and Re/Max decided to upload their listings to Google or Zillow or Trulia rather than to their local MLS, or even better, kept them locally, but stopped sending them to Realtor.com? [...]

By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » What is the future of the MLS?

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:52:29 +0000

[...] For more information and insight, read Russ’ review from this past May and this article describing the future path(s) of the MLS concept. Disclaimer: I am a member of the NAR Future of the MLS PAG (how’s that for acronym overload). [...]

By: RealtyObjectives » Blog Archive » “Should”

RealtyObjectives » Blog Archive » “Should” — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:49:14 +0000

[...] p.s. I published some updates on my trip to the NAR Mid-Year at RainCityGuide. Day One and Day Two. [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:21:01 +0000

Russ, Did you know there is a room specifically for bloggers set up by NAR? Very cool!

By: ARDELL DellaLoggia

ARDELL DellaLoggia — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:40 +0000

Wow! Up to the minute coverage! Thanks Russ!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:48:21 +0000

First, I think that you have to tip your hat to Lennox Scott (first regional co. to add sold data to website) for at least acknowledging consumer wishes and that market pressures exist–thereby acting on it with the NWMLS dissemination of sold data. I understand they will only pull the information from NWMLS sold data, which is incomplete in my view. Further,I think many would agree, it took non real estate brokers (eg Real Estate ABC, Zillow among others) to give the “huge 72 font-sized-writing-on-the-corporate-office-whiteboards” to produce change.

Secondly, there has been long-term inherent protectionism in real estate circles over business models and fee structures. The idea that MLS’s would come to settlement with DOJ over a definition of “Participant” (those that transact sales and listings) is another way of eliminating the great American way of innovation through competition and consumer choice.

I’m excited to see the innovations coming so long as consumers are the driver of influencing the decision making and not the other way around.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:07:40 +0000

Very cool Russ…

I feel like I was there!