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RESO 2025 Board of Directors Announced

Pictured left to right from top left: (Row 1) Rebecca Jensen, John Breault, Melissa King, Richard Renton, (Row 2) Alex Lange, Bob Evans, Caitlin McCrory, Dan Troup, Dan Weisman, (Row 3) Greg Moore, Janine Sieja, Joseph Szurgyi, Joe Wilhelmy, Katy Davenport, (Row 4) Matt Cohen, Matt Hendricks, Michael Hayes, Michael Wurzer, (Row 5) Patrick Pichette, Shayne Fairley, Ross Buck.
(Pictured left to right from top left: (Row 1) Rebecca Jensen, John Breault, Melissa King, Richard Renton, (Row 2) Alex Lange, Bob Evans, Caitlin McCrory, Dan Troup, Dan Weisman, (Row 3) Greg Moore, Janine Sieja, Joseph Szurgyi, Joe Wilhelmy, Katy Davenport, (Row 4) Matt Cohen, Matt Hendricks, Michael Hayes, Michael Wurzer, (Row 5) Patrick Pichette, Shayne Fairley, Ross Buck.)

RESO Announces 2025 Board of Directors Election Winners

“Election winners representing Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) and REALTOR® associations:

  • John Breault, VP, MLS, State-Wide MLS in Rhode Island
  • Greg Moore, CTO, Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) in Oregon

The winner of the open board seat representing technology companies, developers, partners and consultants:

  • Michael Hayes, Executive Director, Industry Development, Homes.com

Winners representing real estate brokerages, brokers, agents and appraisers:

  • Joe Wilhelmy, VP, Business Technology, RE/MAX
  • Caitlin McCrory, VP, Industry Relations, Anywhere”

Congrats to everyone.

RESO Fall Conference

The RESO kids are alright

Yup! I’ve been having major FOMO this week seeing all the posts of the Spring 2024 RESO Conference in Alabama. Even live band comprised of RESO members! But I think this shirt that Dan Troup, new CEO of BPP, is wearing perfectly captures that RESO vibe.

Is a standards based add/edit actually here? Perchwell and REBNY, say yes.

RESO Add/Edit is Official: 6 Tech Companies Lead the Way

“REBNY and its technology vendor Perchwell were the first companies to be certified for implementing full-listing Add/Edit. NYC brokers and their vendors have their own listing interfaces that integrate with REBNY’s Residential Listing Service (RLS).

Companies like RESO members Lofty, RealPlus and RESoft send their brokers’ listings directly into the Add/Edit-equipped RLS. Allowing brokers to use whichever apps or systems work best for them to update RLS data greatly enhances product choice and competition.”

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I’m a bit late to this but, if this can go mainstream it would be huge for the industry.

New RESO Board Elections results announced

RESO Announces 2024 Board of Directors Election Winners

““The real estate industry is constantly changing and growing, and we need strong leaders to help navigate the wealth of technology at our disposal,” said Rebecca Jensen, President and CEO of Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), who was re-elected as a director and chosen to return as 2024 Chair of the RESO board. “RESO’s membership elects an amazing group each year, and I am honored to be given the opportunity to continue to help create and enhance standards for an increasingly global housing market.”

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I know I’m a little late on this but still wanted to recognize these individuals. Thanks everyone for supporting this industry.

RESO announces 2023 Board of Directors

RESO Announces 2023 Board of Directors Election Winners

“RESO has entered the 2.0 phase of its existence, not only with second-generation versions of the industry-standard RESO Data Dictionary and RESO Web API but with our entire approach to driving the industry forward,” said Rebecca Jensen, who was re-elected 2023 Chair of the RESO board and is President and CEO of Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED). “Our leadership team reflects some of the most tech- and business-savvy minds in real estate, and I am proud to serve alongside them as we continue to bring greater data transparency, consistency, accuracy, ease and speed to the industry.”

Congrats to all and looking forward to seeing what advancements Phase 2.0 will bring!

Looking for a new gig?

Membership Manager – RESO

RESO’s Membership Manager is responsible for coordinating logistics and details in membership and education to support the organization’s strategic plan. The Membership Manager will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer.

The find out about this job or post a job, please visit the Vendor Alley Job Board.

A team from MLSListings launches first UPI into MLS System

Joel Allison and Olga Ermolin

MLSListings Pioneers RESO’s Universal Property Identifier

“One of the best stories to emerge from RESO’s recent 2022 Spring Conference was how MLSListings, based in the heart of Silicon Valley, stepped to the forefront in implementing the RESO Universal Property Identifier (UPI) standard into its multiple listing service (MLS) system.

According to Olga Ermolin, Director of Engineering at MLSListings, “We were determined to do something beyond a simple proof of concept, intentionally implementing the UPI into full production to solve real issues right now, such as delivering thorough property history to our subscribers.”

To see any progress, in any endeavor, there has to be a first. Congrats to Olga and Joel.

RESO Directors Announced

RESO Unveils 2022 Board of Directors, Executive Committee Leaders

“The real estate industry is well represented by this group, which includes:

Rebecca Jensen, MRED; Michael Wurzer, FBS; John Breault, State-Wide MLS; and Richard Renton, Triad MLS; Todd Carpenter, NAR; Jason Normandin, NAR; Matt Cohen, CoreLogic; Bob Evans, Move, Inc.; and Mark Lesswing, T3 Sixty; Turan Tekin, Zillow Group; Andy Woolley, Homes.com; Chris Carrillo, Metro MLS; Shayne Fairley, Stellar MLS; and Frank Major, Bright MLS; Marty Reed, CRMLS; Bill Fowler, Compass; Dan Troup, RE/MAX; Caitlin McCrory, Realogy; and Jeff Young, RPR.

Via The WAV Group

Congrats to everyone and thank you for helping push the industry forward.

The whole magilla!

Look Before you LEAP

“I can’t say I’m an expert in content licensing outside of real estate, but I’m having a hard time thinking of content licensing where the cost isn’t driven by usage volume. For example, pretty much every RE site licenses Google or some other mapping content, and we pay based on usage. APIs like Walkscore (owned by Redfin) are based on usage and other terms. Even beyond content licensing deals, all the cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, etc., all have usage based pricing. Given this, why is it that real estate content is licensed without terms of use based on usage?”

Interesting response from Michael Wurzer about the new LEAP Policy being floated around. This part is interesting.

“If MLSs would treat the aggregated content as the value it is with proper licensing terms, almost all of the problems LEAP is trying to address would go away. And, more importantly, there would be a sound basis for addressing the wide differences among the sites using the data. Let’s just be clear about this: There’s a HUGE difference in value being derived from the licensed MLS content by Zillow or Realtor.com versus a single agent IDX site. Treating those the same is crazy.”

Really good points here (as usual from Mike). Lots to think about.

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