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CRMLS chooses Real Estate Digital’s reDataVault

California Regional MLS (CRMLS) Selects Real Estate Digital’s reDataVault

“reDataVault addresses the real estate industry’s pressing need to simplify, standardize and streamline the MLS listing data licensing process by offering a document workflow system for all licensing-related documents and contracts (e.g., IDX and broker participation agreements). The system also offers automated dashboard alerts and unlimited cloud-based document storage and retrieval for 24/7 access.”

Nice win for everyone at RED. Congrats!

Move, Inc. and Trulia Sign New Listing Syndication Agreement for ListHub

Move, Inc:

“Since the September 2010 acquisition of ListHub by Move, Inc., the ListHub publishing network has increased by 117 real estate franchises and MLSs to now represent 421 content sources. ListHub Publishers have also increased from 79 to 126 public-facing real estate web sites and marketing outlets since September 2010.”

As time goes on the acquisition of Listhub by Move, Inc. looks smarter and smarter.

Clareity Security signs four real estate boards in Canada to multi-year deals.

Oh Canada! Nice win for Clareity Security’s Scout of SAFEMLS.

Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, CREB® (Calgary Real Estate Board), the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton, and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (collectively known as the REB4 group).

Full Press Release Below:
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Four Canadian Real Estate Boards Sign Multi-Year Contracts for Clareity Security’s
Scout for SAFEMLS®

June 15, 2012 – Scottsdale, Arizona – Clareity Security (www.clareitysecurity.com), the pioneer of data security and listing syndication management solutions for the real estate industry, is pleased to announce the recent addition of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, CREB® (Calgary Real Estate Board), the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton, and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (collectively known as the REB4 group) to its customer family. The four boards signed multi-year Scout for SAFEMLS® agreements and will add the leading data security, account remediation and subscriber analytics tool for multiple listing services to their respective CoreLogic™ MLXchange™ MLS systems.

“After extensive multi-year research into available technologies to help protect our members’ valuable information and resources, we chose Clareity Security for their expertise in our marketplace and Scout for SAFEMLS for its abilities to address our specific business requirements”, said Mike Pedersen, Chief Information Officer, The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

“We are very excited to deploy Scout for SAFEMLS to the Real Estate Boards in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. With the addition of these four Real Estate Boards, Clareity Security proudly provides data security solutions to over sixty-five percent of real estate professionals across all of Canada.” stated Troy Rech, Vice President of Sales, Clareity Security.

Scout for SAFEMLS serves as a comprehensive solution that reduces administration and total cost of ownership compared to traditional strong authentication products. The SAFEMLS® intelligence-based authentication suite combines access intelligence and zero-footprint, strong authentication to accurately identify risks and then cost-effectively mitigate them. The foundation of the solution is an identity-profiling engine for aggregating user access data, creating statistical profiles, and detecting anomalies. Powered by patent-pending keystroke dynamics, SAFEMLS is unrivaled in its ability to accurately and transparently identify users, detect account sharing, account takeover, and differences between individual users not possible with traditional device or IP tracking.

About Clareity Security:
Clareity Security, located in Scottsdale, Arizona, is the leading provider of data security, Single Sign On and compliance management products and services for the real estate industry. Our Scout for SAFEMLS® and SAFEACCESS™ products help MLS organizations and real estate professionals easily and effectively safeguard sensitive consumer information against unauthorized access and provides strong authentication solutions for secure online transactions. Additionally, Clareity Security is the creator of Safe Syndication™, the leading listing syndication and IDX/VOW compliance management tool for brokerages and MLS organizations.

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Contact:
Amy Geddes, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
480-444-0014
Amy.Geddes at ClareitySecurity dot com

iMapp and Discover MLS partner to take on Corelogic in Miami

It was only a matter of time. With CoreLogic existing MLXchange MLS system only being able to work on Internet Explorer and their new Fusion MLS system not able to work on mobile devices like the iPad it looks like Miami agents have had enough.

This move seems to be unprecedented. The Miami Association of REALTORS is now paying for two different MLS solutions. This isn’t a vendor just setting up a free MLS system in hoping to gain traction, their getting paid.

I’m told that the Discover iMapp solution will be different than any of their other installations.

This is setting up to be The Showdown In The Sunshine State!. The real question is will the iMapp/Discover MLS solution gain enough traction and be able to push CoreLogic out and become Miami’s single solution? What about Greater Fort Lauderdale REALTORS? RMLS? They all must have similar issues.

One thing is for sure, mobile matters.

Full Press Release Below:

MIAMI Association of REALTORS® Selects Discover/iMapp
as Alternative MLS Application

TAMPA, FL — May 7, 2012 — iMapp® and Discover MLS today announced that the MIAMI Association of REALTORS®, the largest REALTOR® Association of the National Association of REALTORS®, have signed an agreement to launch Discover iMapp, the new initiative merging MLS and tax data into a unified, property-centric application.
“Our members demand the best tools available and Discover iMapp gives them a powerful, easy way to access the MLS on any computer, including Mac and iPad, on any browser and the ability to effectively use their mobile devices and stay in contact with their clients.” said Teresa King Kinney, CEO of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS®. “We are excited to be the first association in the country making this powerful benefit available to our members. They deserve the best and it’s our job to make sure they always get it.”

Keeping Agents at the Forefront
Existing MLS software providers have been slow to embrace mobile technology while consumer access to listing data has skyrocketed. By putting agents first, Discover iMapp emphasizes the MIAMI REALTORS’® role as the leading source for real estate information and marketing tools for agents, brokers and their clients.

“Our REALTOR® subscribers are used to having iMapp running on their iPads and all other mobile devices.” said Bill Rovillo, CEO of iMapp. “Now they can share MLS and any public record data with consumers from a single, mobile solution using trusted, MIAMI Association of REALTORS® data.”

Strong Demand From Associations

“The MIAMI Association of REALTORS® saw our presentation for the first time just three weeks ago.” said Bret Wiener, CEO of DiscoverMLS. “They instantly recognized the value to their members and approved the product for launch.”
Discover iMapp includes a real-time client portal with a live-chat feature that allows agents to interact with their clients, react to feedback on properties and instantly modify results to include the dynamic changes that often occur in the challenging search process. Discover iMapp is optimized for mobile and runs on all major web browsers, freeing users from PCs and allowing agents to use their preferred devices.

Roll-out Scheduled for Summer, 2012

The MIAMI Association of REALTORS® anticipates having the Discover iMapp System running with their existing MLS data in Summer 2012. An implementation team and work group will guide the launch and work with iMapp and Discover MLS to insure a smooth transition for all MIAMI REALTORS®.

CoreLogic extends Matrix deal and does rev share with CRMLS

Big announcement, when you think about it. CRMLS is the largest in the country in both membership size and the population is covers. Congrats!

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California Regional MLS Joins Partner InfoNet by CoreLogic
Nation’s Largest MLS Also Extends Matrix System Agreement
May 10, 2012, Santa Ana, Calif. –

CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, and California Regional MLS (CRMLS), the nation’s largest multiple listing service (MLS) provider, today announced that CRMLS has joined Partner InfoNet™ by CoreLogic. The companies also announced that CRMLS has agreed to a multi-year extension of its Matrix™ MLS system contract.

Launched in June 2010, Partner InfoNet is an innovative revenue-sharing program in which MLSs license their listing data to CoreLogic for use in risk management products for mortgage lenders, servicers, and capital markets (but not consumer outlets). With the addition of CRMLS, Partner InfoNet now encompasses nearly 1.1 million active listings and more than 450,000 real estate professionals from 78 MLSs.

Matrix is an enterprise-class MLS system that provides real estate brokers and agents with a flexible, high-performance platform for managing real estate listings. 16 MLSs serving more than 163,000 real estate professionals currently use Matrix, and six more installations are scheduled for this year. In total, CoreLogic serves approximately 550,000 real estate professionals with its MLS systems—more than half the North American market.

“Through our local member associations, we strive to provide the most dependable, convenient and affordable listing technology services available,” said Art Carter, CEO of CRMLS. “Matrix has proven to be an extremely fast and reliable MLS system that meets the needs of our progressive subscribers by supporting virtually all computing platforms and devices. Partner InfoNet supports our goal of keeping costs down for our members by simply and securely leveraging the value of our listing data.”
“This new agreement with CRMLS is a powerful endorsement of both Partner InfoNet and our Matrix MLS platform,” said Ben Graboske, senior vice president of Real Estate and Financial Services for CoreLogic. “We are honored to serve the nation’s largest MLS in these critical capacities and are working hard every day to provide the highest level of service and security in the industry.”

About CoreLogic
CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) is a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to business and government. The Company combines public, contributory and proprietary data to develop predictive decision analytics and provide business services that bring dynamic insight and transparency to the markets it serves. CoreLogic has built one of the largest and most comprehensive U.S. real estate, mortgage application, fraud, and loan performance databases and is a recognized leading provider of mortgage and automotive credit reporting, property tax, valuation, flood determination, and geospatial analytics and services. More than one million users rely on CoreLogic to assess risk, support underwriting, investment and marketing decisions, prevent fraud, and improve business performance in their daily operations. The Company, headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., has approximately 5,000 employees globally. For more information, visit www.corelogic.com.

About CRMLS
California Regional MLS is the nation’s largest Multiple Listing Service, providing products and services to over 70,000 subscribers from 33 REALTOR® Associations. California Regional MLS, located at 180 Via Verde, Suite 200 in San Dimas, California, provides access to listing data throughout the State of California. California Regional MLS has been a regional MLS for over 30 years and is dedicated to making a REAL Difference in the day-to-day business of Real Estate Professionals. For more information on California Regional MLS, contact communications@crmls.org.
CORELOGIC and the stylized CoreLogic logo is a registered trademark owned by CoreLogic, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. MATRIX is a common law trademark of CoreLogic, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. CRMLS and the stylized CRMLS logo is a trademark of the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. No trademarks shall be used without the express written consent of their respective owners.

There’s a New MLS Vendor In Town.

Annie Ives, CEO TheMLS/CLAW
17 years ago, TheMLS/CLAW was just an empty office space and had less than 1,700 members. These members sold some of the most coveted real estate in California: Beverly Hills/Los Angeles. Two local brokers were heading an effort, called CLS, to start their own MLS company and had hired all The MLS/CLAW staff.

Then Annie Ives walked in to the building.

The rest, as they say, is history. CLS failed, and TheMLS/CLAW grew back to over 12,000 members. Since then TheMLS/CLAW has built their own MLS system dubbed, THEMLSPRO®, and taken an almost fanatical approach to customer service. Annie is fond of saying “We’ve been successful because we know that we are running a software company and a service organization, and that both are of equal importance,”

Annie isn’t afraid of a challenge either. When the Palm Springs Association of REALTORS (900+ members) decided to look for a new MLS provider Annie knew she could provide the level of customer service that the members of Palm Springs association would demand. Some would think the obvious choice would be CRMLS, the ever growing (70,000 members) MLS provider born from the failed California state-wide MLS effort calREDD. Some might think that, but they would be wrong.

In the end, the Palm Springs Association signed the agreement with TheMLS/CLAW. Which makes two things very clear.

Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight in Beverly Hills and the MLS game in California is far from over.

New York State Association of REALTORS chooses 10K Research

New York Real Group Forges Statewide Stats Partnership with 10K Research

“The New York State Association of REALTORS® (NYSAR) and 10K Research and Marketing are pleased to announce the February 2012 launch of a statewide housing market reporting partnership using combined data from Multiple Listing Services from throughout New York State.

10K will gather and organize housing sales data from the state’s array of 31 MLSs and provide unique, attractive and localized market reports to 33 participating local associations within NYSAR, making each group the definitive voice of real estate in their respective local markets.”

Two things I love about this. First thing; 10K is clearly doing well. It just shows you how great products combined with a awesome team can succeed (in any market). Secondly, 10K Research is part of the Minneapolis Association of REALTORS. You hear a lot about local associations struggling with generating new forms of revenue and business models. These associations should look look north.

Cloud CMA now offers deep integration with the Paragon MLS system.

Super excited about this news. Through the use of the Cloud CMA API program 7 MLS vendors now have deep integration with Cloud CMA and their respective MLS system. These include FBS’ flexmls, Rapattoni MLS, Dynaconnection’s connectMLS, RMLSweb, IRES MLS, Discover MLS and now Paragon!

Full press release below:

Cloud CMA now offers deep integration with the Paragon MLS system.

Allows seamless one-click access to all Cloud CMA reports

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Nov. 11, 2011 – Web software company W&R Studios announced today a joint marketing agreement with LPS MLS Solutions and the completed integration of Cloud CMA with LPS’ Paragon MLS system.

Cloud CMA will now be available as an option to all Paragon subscribers and was recently launched with the Contra Costa Association of REALTORS®, Bay East Association of REALTORS® and East Bay Regional Data Inc., which combined serve more than 14,000 Paragon subscribers.

Cloud CMA is an online report generator and offers real estate professionals the ability to create custom comparative market analysis (CMA) reports, buyer tours, property reports and flyers. Paragon subscribers will have the option for “one-click” access to all Cloud CMA report sets.

“We love the way LPS’ Paragon team implemented the Cloud CMA integration,” said Greg Robertson, co-founder of W&R Studios. “Cloud CMA users can now generate great-looking reports in a matter of a few minutes.”

According to Glenn Christoph, MLS systems director for the Contra Costa and Bay East Association of REALTORS®, “Our users can create a variety of new reports using Cloud CMA. It’s also very easy for them to generate any report by just sending an email, even from their smartphones.”

“Cloud CMA offers a perfect solution for our customers looking for an enhanced CMA product with a lot of great, easy-to-use features that perfectly complement Paragon,” said Bob Morse, vice president of MLS Sales for LPS MLS Solutions.

About W&R Studios
Founded in 2008, W&R Studios is a privately held web software company located in Huntington Beach, California. W&R Studios focuses on creating the next generation of Web-based software solutions for the real estate industry. By providing a “less is more” approach to software design, elegant user interfaces, and using the latest in agile programming, W&R Studios’ software applications are at the same time powerful, yet accessible to everyone.

About Lender Processing Services (LPS)
Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) is a leading provider of integrated technology, services and mortgage performance data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries. LPS offers solutions that span the mortgage continuum, including lead generation, origination, servicing, workflow automation (Desktop®), portfolio retention and default, augmented by the company’s award-winning customer support and professional services. Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages by dollar volume are serviced using LPS’ loan servicing platform, MSP. LPS also offers proprietary mortgage and real estate data and analytics for the mortgage and capital markets industries. For more information about LPS, visit www.lpsvcs.com.

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For more information:

W&R Studios

Greg Robertson

714.240.3895

greg at wrstudios dot com

Lender Processing Services:

Michelle Kersch

904.854.5043

Michelle.Kersch at lpsvcs dot com

SOURCE: Lightning | Twice – The official blog of W&R Studios

Rhode Island State-Wide MLS thinks RETS IQ Contact ™ is wicked smart.

“greater control of the MLS listing database and RETS feeds.”

Seems to be a lot of hubbub in this space. RED has a solution with reDataVault, I believe OnBoard Informatics has one (Listings 360 insight), so does Bridge Interactive Group (RETS IQ Contact™ Server) and I feel like I’m missing someone else. But I’m still not clear on the difference between each of their respective solutions and what main problems they are solving. Part of me hopes it could be some sort of “Data Socket” as Brian Boero suggested at CMLS 2011 and in a recent blog post.

We tried to do a panel with some of these player at the CMLS Listings Summit earlier this year but it was a bit confusing. I’d like to see the same thing again, somewhere.

That being said, I think Bridge Interactive does the best job explaining their value proposition, which is mainly due to focus. Their website is chock-full of good content and videos. And it seems that the only deals I see announced in this space is from Bridge. Here’s another:

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Rhode Island State-Wide Multiple Listing Selects Bridge Interactive Group’s RETS IQ Contact™ Server

Atlanta, GA, October 14, 2011- Bridge Interactive Group (Bridge) announced today that Rhode Island State-Wide MLS selected Bridge’s Contact RETS server for greater control of the MLS listing database and RETS feeds.

“We chose RETS IQ Contact over other RETS servers for its advanced reporting tools, ability to control access to our listing database, ease of use, and affordability” says Mike Letendre, Chief Information Officer at State-Wide MLS. “We have had a very positive experience working with the Bridge staff during the transition to their Contact server, and look forward to a long working relationship with their team.”

Pace Davis, Bridge’s President, says “State-Wide MLS was looking for a robust solution to provide complete control of their listing data and RETS management. We are thrilled that they have chosen Contact as their solution, and are pleased to add Rhode Island State-Wide MLS to our growing list of clients.”

Bridge’s RETS IQ Contact is an MLS-level RETS data management tool that provides detailed control and use reporting for MLS RETS access. RETS IQ Contact has the most comprehensive RETS usage reporting in the industry. Contact stores each and every RETS action then presents that data in several easy-to-read, analytical reports. Contact enables MLS staff to review real-time queries, the number of listings, amounts of data requested and much more. Executive-level summary reports are presented in clear, graphical detail allowing the MLS Administrator or Executive to quickly review and monitor activity on the RETS server. In addition, Contact makes troubleshooting RETS simple. Help Desk or Administrative staff can easily identify failed queries and identify the problem, such as a misspelled word or an improper character. Failed queries are displayed in red which makes them easy to identify and therefore, quicker to manage.

About Bridge Interactive Group

Bridge Interactive Group specializes in providing cutting edge technology and

services to the real estate industry. Bridge offers solutions for listing syndication

control, RETS data usage and monitoring, account management and billing, and

add/edit functionality via its RETS IQ product suite. Bridge technologies are used

by MLS System Vendors, MLSs, Brokers, and more than 280,000 agents. For

more information about Bridge Interactive Group, please visit www.retsiq.com, or contact Turan Tekin at: phone- 404.310.6475, email- turan at retsiq dot com

CRMLS takes over SoCalMLS to form largest MLS in country.

Boom! With close to 70,000 members CRMLS now becomes the largest MLS providers in the country.

Here’s a list of the winners in this deal:

Art Carter, CEO of CRMLS-WINNER
Nancy Gilmore, CEO of PWR -WINNER
Joel Singer, CEO of CAR-WINNER

Well played, lady and gentlemen, well played.

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Merger of CRMLS and Southern California MLS Creates Largest MLS in the Nation

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (CRMLS) and the Southern California MLS (SoCalMLS) have agreed to merge, creating the largest multiple listing service in the nation, it was jointly announced today by Len Herman, 2011 president of SoCalMLS, and Rob Arrietta, 2011 president of CRMLS.

“Combining two highly complementary organizations is what our brokers and subscribers want, and now we have the opportunity to offer even greater value to our customers.”
“This union was long overdue,” said 2011 SoCalMLS President Len Herman. “Combining two highly complementary organizations is what our brokers and subscribers want, and now we have the opportunity to offer even greater value to our customers.”

“The combination of two of the largest MLSs in the nation simply makes sense for brokerages, agents, and REALTOR® associations,” said 2011 CRMLS President Rob Arrietta. “The combination of our products and services gives real estate professionals throughout California an extremely cost effective solution for their MLS services.”

The combined entity will remain as CRMLS, which is based in San Dimas, Calif., with Rob Arrietta serving as president of the organization. Len Herman will remain on as part of the transition team. CRMLS will now be providing products and services to 33 REALTOR® associations and their 68,000 participants and subscribers throughout California.

About CRMLS

CRMLS delivers, through local member associations, the most affordable, reliable, and convenient listing technology service available, and provides products and services that support real estate professionals in maximizing the use of property data to achieve their business goals.

Contacts

CRMLS
Art Carter, 909-859-2045
art at crmls dot org

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