Real estate listings syndication is broken: Let's fix it 
APIs: The key to assuring data quality
By Gahlord Dewald, Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
House bar code image via Shutterstock.One point of the Edina Realty Inc. "Syndication Thesis" can be handled simply, for the benefit of all.
The thesis, on what a data owner needs from syndication -- which I regret to say I can't find on the company site even though it's been quoted across many sources -- reads as follows:
"Our agents don't lose future business opportunities because a nonlisting competitor pays to present themselves as the contact for your listing.
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