Where Real Estate Gets Its Dirt

CoreLogic

My thanks to CoreLogic for sponsoring Vendor Alley again this month.

If you are an MLS organization, it’s time to transition from old-school RETS to modern Web API. Launched by CoreLogic just this week, Trestle Direct offers a new way for MLSs to provide agents, brokers, and technology companies Web API access to non-standardized listing data and additional assets such as contacts, saved searches, and more. Now available exclusively to Matrix clients at no cost and provided through Trestle, CoreLogic’s data distribution platform, for accessible data licensing management.

CoreLogic

My thanks again to CoreLogic for sponsoring this month of Vendor Alley. Their team has been super busy and the hard work has paid off. Their mobile MLS platform solution, MLS-Touch now has over 700,000 agents. To find out more please click here => MLS-Touch

The MLS™/CLAW offers free floor plans to members via CubiCasa

The MLS/CLAW CEO, Annie Ives

Free Floor Plans are Now Available to The MLS™/CLAW REALTOR® Members Through CubiCasa

“The CEO of The MLS™/CLAW, Annie Ives, says “Advancement is essential for The MLS™, especially when it comes to technology. We’re pleased to be offering easy floor plans to members as this is a key feature that clients look for during their property search. Agents can now provide their clients a more comprehensive property outlook.”

Super smart!

CubiCasa is building a lot of momentum. A little birdie told me that other big announcements are coming soon. My thanks again to CubiCasa for sponsoring this month of Vendor Alley!

Vendor Alley Sponsorships Available

Looking to promote your product or service? Or maybe you got some big news to share?

This year I have started something new. Month-long sponsorships. This is the only way to promote your product or service specifically to Vendor Alley’s audience of Real Estate insiders, geeks, vendors, MLS peeps, Association staff, Brokers, and Franchisor heavies.  If you want your message to reach the top decision-makers, influencers, and connoisseurs of fine satire in Organized Real Estate (ORE) you’ll only get it at Vendor Alley. More information can be found here.

I’ve got March available. Hit me up if you are looking for a deal: vendor.alley@gmail.com

UtahRealEstate.com partners with CubiCasa

UtahRealEstate.com Partners with Floor Plan Provider CubiCasa

“Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, said “Floor plans add a visual data set to property listings, and they are very popular with consumers searching for properties. At UtahRealEstate.com, we control our technology platform, and we can build tools for our members that make the floor plan listing integration easy to use and efficient. We will be the first MLS in the country to do more than simply allow an agent to add a floorplan into the photo carousel, as we create new features that will enable access to the floor plans by our members, their clients, and our data licensing partners. In today’s constantly evolving real estate market, it is important that we provide as much data and information on a property as possible, and CubiCasa is empowering our members to do just that.”

Great news for URE and CubiCasa! My thanks again to CubiCasa for being this month’s sponsor of Vendor Alley.

CubiCasa

My thanks to CubiCasa for sponsoring this month of Vendor Alley. CubiCasa’s goal is to have a floor plan on every listing in the United States. Jeff Allen, CubiCasa’s President, explains it best…

“Floor plans are the only digital asset on a real estate listing that give buyers a true sense – at a single glance – of whether the home is the right fit for their family. Scrolling through reams of property data or clicking through a dizzying virtual tour can’t do the same thing. In fact, according to NAR Research, floor plans are the single most requested feature on a listing after only the default photos and property data.

You can read the entire blog post here => CubiCasa’s Epic Mission – A Floor Plan on Every Listing

They have already announced partnerships with Georgia MLS and New Mexico MLS

I love these guys and their mission, my thanks again to the team at CubiCasa.

REdistribute

Once again my thanks to REdistribute for sponsoring this month at Vendor Alley. REdistribute is a collaborative venture with MLS organizations with the aim of simplifying licensing and ensuring brokers are compensated at fair market value.

REdistribute collects listing data, distributes it to those who license it, and returns revenue to participating brokers.

REdistribute solves the MLS data problem like iTunes solved music “sharing”. Since there was really no legal/easy way of buying music online before iTunes, unlicensed sharing (theft?) of music was rampant. There needed to be a platform to facilitate the legal way of purchasing (now streaming) music.

Gene Milman from REColorado.com and Amy Gorce from PRESTA Consulting will be featured on the CMLS’ MLS Matters Webinar on January 19th if you want to learn more click the link below.

Link => CMLS’s MLS Matters – What’s New January 19th

If you are interested in finding out how to become a Vendor Alley sponsor please click here.

REdistribute

My thanks to REdistribute for sponsoring this month at Vendor Alley. REdistribute is a collaborative venture with MLS organization with the aim of simplifying licensing and ensuring brokers are compensated at fair market value, REdistribute collects listing data, distributes it to those who license it, and returns revenue to participating brokers.

Gene Milman from REColorado.com and Amy Gorce from PRESTA Consulting will be featured on the CMLS’ MLS Matters Webinar on January 19th if you want to learn more click the link below.

Link => CMLS’s MLS Matters – What’s New January 19th

Sponsor: ListHub

My thanks to realtor.com and ListHub for sponsoring Vendor Alley. ListHub is hosting on webinar on Wednesday, November 15th. Click on this link to register => “How 3 Websites Grew Their Business in Record Time.

Join a panel discussion with Celeste Starchild and three real estate tech companies who grew their businesses in record time with ListHub. ListHub offers solutions for a variety of real estate websites and tech companies to help them:

– Grow traffic: One publisher went from 10,000 visitors when they first started to 4.5 million (per month!)

– Improve efficiency: Another publisher was able to reallocate 4 staff members who had previously been responsible for manual data mapping.

– Improve SEO: By adding more content to their site, a publisher significantly improved their search ranking on Google.

Hear direct from 3 real estate tech companies and learn how ListHub can help your business too.

CSS

My thanks to Centralized Showing Service (CSS) for sponsoring Vendor Alley

CSS has a great solution to provide agents with a quick, courteous and accurate way to schedule their showings. Here’s some of what they do:

Book, cancel & reschedule showings online
Deliver/receive automated showing notifications by email and text messaging
• Edit listing information 
• Collect & share feedback 

This is all integrate with Matrix via SSO.

Kerry Rakuson recently joined CSS.

“”Kerry is a recognized leader with an enviable track record of improving the business processes of brokers and agents in Canada,” says Kevin Hughes, V.P. of Sales and Business Development for CSS. ”With Kerry leading our expansion efforts, we are ideally positioned to meet the evolving demands of the real estate industry. Our mission is to enable agents to efficiently exceed their sales goals,” he concludes.”

Congrats to Kerry on her new gig! So a big thanks to CSS and you can check them out at Showings.com.

Sponsored By Cubi Casa