Join Chris Haran, CTO of MRED as we discuss the best ways for MLSs to help eliminate the 40% of Condo deals that go bad every year

Join Chris Haran, CTO MRED, the MLS of the Chicagoland area, to see how their organization has partnered with FHAPros to help eliminate the 40% of condo deals that fall apart each year.

By |2020-11-16T13:15:52-08:00November 16th, 2020|Technology|0 Comments

Rental Beast for MLS Offers a Rental Solution Worth Consideration

Over the past 12 months, we have examined the success that MLSs are beginning to deliver though Rental Beast, what can be best described as an MLS system for rentals.

By |2020-06-25T13:41:13-07:00June 24th, 2020|MLS Insights, Technology, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

Turn your log-in screen into a marketing tool!

Check out this log-in screen from Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), the MLS that serves more than 45,000 agents in the Chicagoland area. Instead of just having a generic, log-in screen like most of us do, they turned that frequently used screen into a mini-marketing center!

By |2020-05-15T10:35:28-07:00May 15th, 2020|Broker Public Portal, MLS Insights|0 Comments

Accolades Continue for Broker Public Portal with Homesnap – 38th Fastest Growing Company in America

The Broker Public Portal is the industry’s leading success story. Homesnap’s three-year growth rate since partnering with the Broker Public Portal (BPP) is a whopping 6,176.7%. Broker Public Portal with Homesnap is emerging as the biggest threat to Zillow’s leadership position in home search.

By |2019-08-17T06:35:56-07:00August 16th, 2019|Broker Public Portal, Main category|0 Comments

Midwest Real Estate Data Welcomes Livingston County Board of Realtors® Into MLS’s Expanding Service Area

LCBR goes live as MRED’s fifteenth association partner ahead of schedule

By |2019-02-26T09:34:28-08:00February 26th, 2019|Press Releases|0 Comments

MRED, Dynaconnections and Homesnap Deliver Latest Major Milestone for Broker Public Portal Movement

I’m so excited to see the Broker Public Portal movement achieve another exciting milestone!   MRED and their highly rated MLS system provider Dynaconnections have created the ability for agents to enhance the saved searches they send to their clients by allowing consumers to see their saved searches via Homesnap.   BPP naysayers believed that this type of integration was impossible.  They also believed the Broker Public Portal would never be able to deliver over 1 million FREE leads in less than a year or successfully engage more than 160 MLSs representing nearly 900,000 agents either.  This is the just the [...]

By |2018-10-29T10:13:54-07:00October 25th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) Welcomes Bloomington-Normal Association of Realtors® (BNAR)

This is a big week for merger announcements!  MRED, one of the nation’s largest MLSs located in the Chicagoland area just added their 14th Association and 21st county to their MLS marketing network.  Bloomington-Normal Association of REALTORS(R) has joined their ranks.  I have had the pleasure of working with the MRED team and I can see why Bloomington-Normal chose MRED.  They offer a terrific suite of services supported by strong customer service and training. Its a great of MLS leaders and staff that really cares about the success of their customers.   Congratulations Bloomington-Normal and MRED! One of nation’s largest [...]

By |2018-09-26T08:37:57-07:00September 26th, 2018|Press Releases|0 Comments

Chicagoland’s MRED Marketing Campaign Makes Homesnap Soar

When the real estate industry brokerage leaders and Multiple Listing Service (MLS) leaders gathered to reimagine a better national consumer search experience, Chicagoland MLS Midwest Real Estate Data LLC (MRED) jumped right in. They believe in the mission of the Broker Public Portal and have licensed Homesnap since July of 2016. The company has committed not only treasury but also significant volunteer effort.

By |2018-07-02T11:00:05-07:00July 2nd, 2018|Main category|2 Comments

RESO Honors its Outstanding Volunteers

Real Estate Standards Organization, or RESO, recently showed how massive volunteerism is in real estate. It often goes unnoticed, under the radar. But at its sold-out Spring Summit in Austin, Jeremy Crawford, CEO of RESO, took to the stage and invested time to honor more than two-dozen people in our industry. Jeremy recognized each of them for their outstanding personal contributions with a 2017 Spring Tech Summit Award. What’s amazing to think about is that collectively, these individuals contributed literally thousands of annual volunteer hours to RESO. They spent time volunteering for the seven RESO Workgroups – and one key committee – all [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 8th, 2017|Main category|0 Comments

MRED Takes Bold Step to Elect Outside Director

We are so excited to see how MLSs are starting to cross-pollinate talent across markets. Congrats to MRED in Chicago for electing Art Carter, CEO of the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, the nation’s largest MLS to their Board of Directors. We, at WAV Group often promote the idea of inviting diverse talent and perspectives to sit on MLS Boards. Boards in most industries elect participants with diverse backgrounds in finance, marketing, product development and management. MLSs generally only invite agents and brokers from their local region to participate. A move to elect a strategic manager from outside of the [...]