http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-28372 NAR/RPR + Cyberhomes = Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:31:58 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-28372 [...] - What is the future of the MLS? [...] [...] – What is the future of the MLS? [...]

]]> http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1736 Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Withholding offers? Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:33:26 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1736 [...] What is the future of the MLS? The solution to many of real estate’s problems. The Divorced Commission and the MLS [...] [...] What is the future of the MLS? The solution to many of real estate’s problems. The Divorced Commission and the MLS [...]

]]> http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1257 The San Diego Home Blog » Blog Archive » Time to Defrag? Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:05:12 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1257 [...] Having said that, with the veritable candy store of search engines available to the consumer, it may just be time to stop treating the independent search engines differently. Is the answer to withhold MLS feeds or provide them to all? I am admittedly somewhat confused as to the direction we are heading, a confusion apparently shared by Jim Duncan at RealCentralVA. Obviously, there will be many in the broker community who shun full cooperation as they fear it will diminish the value of the agent when/if the MLS is no longer a private matter. However, I see privacy and privelege of information as a dinosaur on its way to extinction. The larger brokerages have already hopped on the cluetrain (as Jim put it) and are feeding their listings directly to the more popular sites, case in point Prudential’s recent parterships with Yahoo! and now Google Base. I, for one, am placing my listings on every online search site I can get my hands on, as I continue to feel that maximum exposure is critical to my clients. For the time being, though, fragmentation is the word. [...] [...] Having said that, with the veritable candy store of search engines available to the consumer, it may just be time to stop treating the independent search engines differently. Is the answer to withhold MLS feeds or provide them to all? I am admittedly somewhat confused as to the direction we are heading, a confusion apparently shared by Jim Duncan at RealCentralVA. Obviously, there will be many in the broker community who shun full cooperation as they fear it will diminish the value of the agent when/if the MLS is no longer a private matter. However, I see privacy and privelege of information as a dinosaur on its way to extinction. The larger brokerages have already hopped on the cluetrain (as Jim put it) and are feeding their listings directly to the more popular sites, case in point Prudential’s recent parterships with Yahoo! and now Google Base. I, for one, am placing my listings on every online search site I can get my hands on, as I continue to feel that maximum exposure is critical to my clients. For the time being, though, fragmentation is the word. [...]

]]> http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1243 Cobb Real Estate Blog » Blog Archive » What’s In Your RSS Reader? Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:47:27 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1243 [...] Real Central VA - What is the future of the MLS? [...] [...] Real Central VA – What is the future of the MLS? [...]

]]> http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1218 The Divorced Commission and the MLS: Building a much better home search tool . . . | BloodhoundBlog | The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com in Phoenix, Arizona Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:19:22 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/20/what-is-the-future-of-the-mls/#comment-1218 [...] In a comprehensive overview, Jim Duncan of Real Central VA offers this: In the age in which we live, and as we move (as I foresee) to a world where buyers pay their own representation rather than depending on the sellers’ concession … Do we need a means by which to facilitate cooperation and compensation? (I am not advocating this position, just asking the question) [...] [...] In a comprehensive overview, Jim Duncan of Real Central VA offers this: In the age in which we live, and as we move (as I foresee) to a world where buyers pay their own representation rather than depending on the sellers’ concession … Do we need a means by which to facilitate cooperation and compensation? (I am not advocating this position, just asking the question) [...]

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