MLS & Associations

Four multiple listing services representing 17,000 members combined have integrated an online scheduling system from real estate showing management company ShowingTime, allowing members to schedule and manage showings at any time of day directly thro...

Even as the number of multiple listing services that share listing data continues to grow, members of two of California’s biggest MLSs are on the verge of losing access to information about each other’s listings in a spat that highlights ...

Realtors Property Resource, the national property database owned and operated by the National Association of Realtors, has signed a licensing deal with a Dallas-based multiple listing service that gives RPR access to listing data in one of the nation...

With the number of multiple listing services participating in a reciprocal deep-linking service powered by realtor.com operator Move Inc. set to grow from two to nine, more than 47,000 real estate professionals in 19 California counties will soon be ...

The National Association of Realtors has a new general counsel. The 1 million-member trade group has chosen Katie Raynolds Johnson, the group’s associate counsel, as the successor to NAR’s longtime legal champion Laurie Janik, who retir...

Trulia has hired John Whitney, most recently vice president of industry relations for listing syndicator ListHub, to help lead the real estate search portal’s efforts to improve its listing data quality and grow its relationship with multiple l...

The National Association of Realtors’ annual midyear conference now has a new name that puts the trade group’s political advocacy efforts front and center. The NAR Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo is now the Realtor Party Co...

The Combined Los Angeles/Westside MLS (CLAW), which serves about 15,000 agents and brokers, has become the first MLS in the country to delay its syndication feeds by 48 hours, according to listing syndicator and Move Inc. subsidiary ListHub. While so...

The North Carolina-based Wilmington Regional Association of Realtors plans to stop syndicating listings to third-party websites on behalf of its nearly 1,700 members, but Zillow and Trulia say they’ll still be able to display information on the...

Michigan's largest multiple listing service, Realcomp II Ltd., has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a 2010 class action lawsuit for $3.25 million. The lawsuit was prompted by Realcomp's refusal to transmit "exclusive agency" listings -- a ty...

A nonprofit that launched last year to help multiple listing services, Realtor associations and brokers coordinate their efforts against data piracy, has more than doubled its membership, gaining several charter members. REDPLAN Inc. — which st...

Brokers who belong to multiple listing services that operate public portals powered by Solid Earth’s Spring platform can now add a “deep link” bringing consumers who find listings they represent on the portals back to listing detail...

After three previous unsuccessful attempts at a merger in the last 20 years, it was the possibility of a divided market that finally spurred two Realtor associations in eastern Florida to join forces. The Melbourne Area Association of Realtors and ....

Ernest “Ernie” Reyes, co-founder of the 21,000-member national trade group the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, died Saturday after a brief illness at age 72. The San Diego-based real estate broker co-founded NA...

Ten multiple listing services have recently signed up to offer their members N-Play’s Internet Data Exchange (IDX) listings search application for agent and broker Facebook pages, bringing the total number of MLSs offering the app to 110. Those ML...

Citing a desire for better compatibility with the iPad and other tablet devices, Connecticut Multiple Listing Service has decided not to go ahead with a planned conversion to CoreLogic’s Fusion MLS and is looking for a new MLS platform. In ......

The nation’s largest multiple listing service, California Regional MLS, has not given up on the idea of forming a statewide MLS in the Golden State and is making deals toward that end. CRMLS is the product of a 2010 merger of Pomona-based .....

The debate about the effectiveness of open houses as a marketing tactic will undoubtedly go on, but there will be no Realtors Nationwide Open House Weekend this year. The communications directors of state and local Realtor associations voted not to ...