BROKERS – How RESO Will Help You Become a GREAT Competitor Online

Brokers, even those that invest significant money in their online presence struggle to engage potential customers. In just about every market, brokers have taken a backseat to venture-backed sites that are constantly launching new bells and whistles to capture the attention of potential home buyers and sellers. There’s been a group of hard-working technology leaders at work creating the Real Estate Standards Organization or RESO, as it is called. This smart community of thinkers, led by many of the largest broker organizations including Keller Williams, Home Services of America, REALOGY, Watson, Crye-Leike, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, The [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00July 25th, 2017|Broker-Agent Information|0 Comments

Ben did it again: A Look at America’s #1 REALTOR®

America’s number one real estate agent isn’t from Manhattan or Beverly Hills. You won’t find him when you’re filing through the programming guide for HGTV, and he’s never graced the cover of Real Estate magazine. He doesn’t cater to the rich and famous. Ben Caballero is the broker-owner of HomesUSA.com®, based in Addison, Texas, and sells new homes to Texans for more than 60 top builders in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Ben is not only arguably, real estate’s most successful agent, he may well be its most unconventional one. The World’s Most Successful Agent On the success side, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:43-07:00July 25th, 2017|Main category|0 Comments

Enormous Change is Happening Around Us Everyday

Enormous change is happening around us everyday. I am sure that you would all agree that this change is likely to accelerate in the second half of 2017 and beyond. I believe strongly in our WAVes of Change agenda. We are committed to the support of our clients who are going through transformation journeys to redefine their purpose and strategy. We passionately believe that people and company culture are the foundation of competitive differentiation, and that is the highest responsibility for the leadership of your company. But we also believe in outside perspective, and the learning that comes from understanding [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 24th, 2017|Wav of Change|0 Comments

CORELOGIC TRESTLE ACHIEVES RESO PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

IRVINE, Calif., July 18, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced today that clients of Trestle can now obtain Platinum-level data dictionary certification from the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO). Trestle™ is the national data marketplace created by CoreLogic to address fundamental data access problems experienced by real estate brokers, technology providers, and multiple listing organizations. RESO promotes data standards and processes that facilitate software innovation, ensure portability, eliminate redundancy and achieve greater efficiency for all real estate transaction parties. “CoreLogic is a strong supporter of real estate standards and has marched steadily toward the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 18th, 2017|Press Releases|0 Comments

Don’t Miss Leveraging High-Quality Content to Engage Online Consumers

WAV Group will be hosting a free webinar on August 1st at 10:00 am PDT focused around how MLSs like the Georgia MLS and leading brokers like Century 21 Dumont are leveraging video to drive consumer engagement. The webinar is designed to address the needs of MLSs and Large brokers with more than 100,000 website visits a month. If you operate a big site, you will want to attend. We will hear about how MLSs and brokers are partnering with This Old House, and how they are leveraging their extensive library to enhance the consumer experience, extend visitor time on site, [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 17th, 2017|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|0 Comments

Did you miss RESO, RETS Standards, and You: News from the RESO Certification Front?

MLS data services for brokers, agents, and their technology providers are changing at a very rapid pace. The RETS Standards that are used by an estimated 97% of IDX and VOW solutions are converting to the RESO Web API. Being informed about this conversion is vital to the effective management of data feeds. WAV Group Partner, Victor Lund is joined by CEO of the Real Estate Standards Organization, Jeremy Crawford as he discussed the challenges and opportunities he’s hearing first-hand from brokers and technology vendors as they move toward receiving standard feeds. Did you know that RESO certification must be [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 13th, 2017|Main category|0 Comments

Looking for a new GIG? Check out this exciting VP Marketing Opportunity?

I have always admired PILLARTOPOST. They have created a well-recognized backed up by a consistent service experience monitored closely across its 600+ franchises in North America.  They have taken a business that has been serviced historically only by mom and pop shops and created a corporate quality control system that ensures a thorough and predictable home inspection. PILLARTOPOSTS’ broker partnership feel good working with a brand that has gone above and beyond to protect the interest of their clients and ensure that transactions do not fall apart at the last minute because of an unexpected problem. They are looking for [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00July 7th, 2017|Recruiting|0 Comments