mls consolidation: California Association of Realtors sees "the light"
- 05/30/08 09:03 PM
Better late than never: "The (California) state Realtor group announced this month that 61 MLSs and local Realtor groups in the state have sent non-binding letters of intent to participate in the statewide MLS effort. There are 70 MLSs in the state." "The goal is to launch the statewide database either in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2009." Trulia is setting not a bad example on how the search could (or should) look like that MLS' cannot disregard anymore. Have you seen new Trulia's listing capabilities? Quite remarkable. At the sam time Trulia is getting … (6 comments)
In December 2006 I posted information on progress of MLS consolidation in the Bay Area: California: MLS in Turmoil A few month later, in my post Who Started the Real Estate Revolution? I lamented at that time that MLS owners don't seem to understand what clients want and pointed to these companies that know: Trulia and Zillow. Many things happened since and most of the Bay Area MLSs joined either Quattro or NCREX (NCREX changed its name since to MLSListings). Despite all these changes – Quattro was in denial of the reality (clients’ demand for better public search … (3 comments)
mls consolidation: NCREX and Quattro are here. Is it to little to late?
- 09/12/07 08:13 PM
At the end of last year in my post “MLS in Turmoil” I wrote about rush to consolidation in the San Francisco Bay Area caused by enthusiastic reply of clients to services from Trulia and Zillow. Just this week one of the two efforts I mentioned then – NCREX – came to fruition.
I said at that time that: “Within a few months, we will most likely be able to receive all real estate data in Northern California from 2 sources, NCREX and Quattro. Quattro is a new MLS data-sharing initiative among San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR), Bay Area Real … (0 comments)
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