Opinion: Quattro, Really "Sinko"?

Progress in the MLS industry? I guess there has been some in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Maybe. Introducing politic-free Quattro MLS. It is hard to believe that there was a lack of politics in creating this new listing data sharing system. This may be one of those cases where two is better than seven (separate MLS databases that is). But the real question is why not one? Here, statewide and nationally. I'm disappointed.

The first thing that comes to mind and the first indicator of board politics as usual might be the inability for these groups to create Uno - one MLS for all of the areas combined by both Quattro and its rival NCREX. And as for this signaling great change and progress within the MLS industry - I guess. 

By my count there are still more than 875 separate MLSs out there. It's about the time when "siete should have been uno" and certainly some number less than what is represented by Quattro. But with the survival of "the same ownership and governance" of each affected MLS what would you expect other than business basically as usual in the good old MLS industry. 

Idea. Remove the politics of the board and the MLS and go direct to a broker-owned solution nationwide. Then we might be commenting on mucho change.

--Ken Jenny, TranCen  

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