Comments on: The NAR Gateway inches out of the box http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Preliminary NAR Gateway Report released | BloodhoundBlog: Real estate marketing and technology blog | Realtors and real estate, mortgages, lending, investments http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-11396 Preliminary NAR Gateway Report released | BloodhoundBlog: Real estate marketing and technology blog | Realtors and real estate, mortgages, lending, investments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:50:44 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-11396 [...] been talked about for some time, on and [...] [...] been talked about for some time, on and [...]

]]> By: Ernie Tabel http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-10972 Ernie Tabel Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:09:07 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-10972 TimeshareSalesGuru describes one of the major issues that Realtor.com has been grappling with for years. Over nine hundred MLSs, all different, supporting differing ranges of data, all attempting to feed into one all-inclusive searchable database. There's been some standarardization among some groupings of MLSs over the last few years (RETS?), but not near enough to solve the issue. It's been quite a task, and so far they haven't quite hit that nail as squarely on the head as they'd like, either. TimeshareSalesGuru describes one of the major issues that Realtor.com has been grappling with for years. Over nine hundred MLSs, all different, supporting differing ranges of data, all attempting to feed into one all-inclusive searchable database.

There’s been some standarardization among some groupings of MLSs over the last few years (RETS?), but not near enough to solve the issue. It’s been quite a task, and so far they haven’t quite hit that nail as squarely on the head as they’d like, either.

]]> By: TimeshareSalesGuru http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-10954 TimeshareSalesGuru Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:08:06 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/11/26/the-nar-gateway-inches-out-of-the-box/#comment-10954 "Consumers and Realtors want the same thing - every property, and its history in one place. " While that may be what everyone wants, it will come at a price. How many MLS systems are in the US? And who will pay for the programming changes that will be needed to make them all "shake hands"? We have recently added fractional and timeshare properties on our MLS and it is not a "one click" process. Multiply the number of MLS's times the number of different software programs used to support the data and the complexity of the solution grows. Perhaps, start from scratch with an all new nationwide system? “Consumers and Realtors want the same thing – every property, and its history in one place. ”

While that may be what everyone wants, it will come at a price. How many MLS systems are in the US? And who will pay for the programming changes that will be needed to make them all “shake hands”?

We have recently added fractional and timeshare properties on our MLS and it is not a “one click” process. Multiply the number of MLS’s times the number of different software programs used to support the data and the complexity of the solution grows.

Perhaps, start from scratch with an all new nationwide system?

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