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MLS at 600: The Big Picture on Real Estate’s Multiple Listing Services in 2019

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date July 1, 2019
Categories In TheMLSMap.com, Top Feature

This article was originally published on TheMLSMap.com: The MLS segment of the real estate industry will achieve a major milestone in 2019. The number of multiple listing services in the United States will drop below 600. Understanding the MLS…

Upstream and CoreLogic are not the MLS

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date July 1, 2019
Categories In Notorious

This article was originally posted on the Notorious R.O.B. blog:

Rob had some good questions yesterday that many in the industry are probably asking, in “OK, I’ll Ask: How is CoreLogic Threading the Upstream Needle?” For a lot of us

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Counterpoint to WSJ: “When You Buy or Sell a Home, Realty Bites”

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date March 4, 2019
Categories In MarketWatch

WSJ published an opinion piece today by Jack Ryan and Jonathan Friedland, proprietors of REX, a real estate brokerage. While competition in real estate is welcome and healthy, accusations founded upon a lack of knowledge and/or false logic should not …

#ICNY 2019: One MLS to rule them all, Zillow’s upstream movement, iBuyers and more

This article was originally published on Inman News, article image credit Inman News:

Note: This discussion originated in the Geek Estate Mastermind — thanks to the Inman community for introducing me to so many of these brilliant minds at …

Decoding the Broker-MLS Cold War Part 2: Free the Data

Key Takeaways

Real estate apps and data don’t function seamlessly across MLS, broker and vendor tools — there are concrete technical reasons.
Brokers need to understand the issues that keep them from leveraging MLS data fully.
MLSs need to adopt

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Conquer the 7 deadly sins of real estate leadership

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Real estate roundup: Big money, bad data, bot bites dog

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date October 19, 2018
Categories In Inman News

This article was originally published on Inman News:

Big money is influencing the real estate business the way it does politics. It pushes ideals to their extremes to see how much they can withstand and still carry a critical …

Inman Connect San Francisco’s swan song: fear and discipline

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date October 19, 2018
Categories In Inman News

This article was originally published on Inman News:

The kind of ingenuity displayed at ICSF is what will lead the winners into the industry’s next phase

BY SAM DEBORD

Last week was Inman’s final Connect conference in San Francisco.

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Does a Compass lie? Finding true north in real estate

Post author By Sam DeBord
Post date October 19, 2018
Categories In Inman News

This article was originally published on Inman News:

Why will a consumer or agent choose to work with you this year, in five years or in 10 years?

BY SAM DEBORD

Earlier this week, Brad Inman relayed a story

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Who’s lobbying NAR? Zillow, dues dollars and the DOJ

This article was originally published on Inman News:

BY SAM DEBORD

The National Association of Realtors is perennially involved in lobbying legislators to effect healthy real estate policy. The shoe has been on the other foot lately. A local

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