MLS & Associations

Starting today, the California Association of Realtors begins publishing the names and photos of those who are found to have violated the Realtor Code of Ethics in a members-only section of its website unavailable to the public. Only real estate ......

The Council of Multiple Listing Services, a nonprofit trade group whose MLS members represent nearly 1 million subscribers, is in search of its first-ever CEO. Formed in 1957 with three founding members, CMLS now has 234 members, 163 of them ......

A merger of two local Realtor associations in New Jersey has created the third-largest Realtor association in the state. New “core standards” for associations from the National Association of Realtors were not the original impetus for the...

REDPLAN Inc., a nonprofit that launched last year to help real estate organizations safeguard their information from data pirates, is building up a legal reserve fund the trade group says will be used to tackle issues such as intellectual property ....

The more than 70,000 members of the largest multiple listing service in the nation, California Regional MLS, will soon be able to access their MLS platform from anywhere using a mobile application from app developer Mobile Realty Apps. Mobile access ...

The 33,000 agents and brokers who belong to the largest multiple listing service in Florida, My Florida Regional MLS, will soon have access to new-home listings and alerts provided by startup Builders Update. Starting in September or October, the Aus...

Industry heavyweight Russ Bergeron has resigned as CEO and president of multiple listing service Midwest Real Estate Data LLC, which serves close to 40,000 members in the Chicago area. At this time, it is unclear what Bergeron’s next step will ...

Georgia Multiple Listing Service is partnering with CRS Data to provide public tax record information from all 159 Georgia counties to its 26,000 members. CRS’ Real Estate Suite will allow Georgia MLS members to evaluate tax assessor informatio...

One of the nation’s largest multiple listing services, Chicago area-based Midwest Real Estate Data LLC (MRED), has incorporated responsive design into the online property portals its members share with their clients. Websites that incorporate r...

The California Desert Association of Realtors has joined the largest multiple listing service in the nation in withdrawing from a joint venture of California MLSs that aggregates real estate listings into a common database. In December, California R...

HOUSTON -- The Houston Association of Realtors today demoed a new version of its consumer-facing website that it's testing as it prepares to expand HAR.com’s coverage area to the entire state of Texas, and also do something that third-party portals...

In a move aimed at fostering deeper connections with business partners, realtor.com operator Move Inc. has hired two industry veterans from outside the company and promoted a third from within to expand its industry relations team in the wake of ......

Three Austin, Texas-based brokerages are feeding their listings directly to Zillow after the local multiple listing service stopped helping member brokers provide listings to the portal in April. JB Goodwin Realtors, Re/Max Capital City and Turnqui...

The National Association of Realtors’ elected leaders will soon have to meet some minimum financial requirements that are not unlike those that their clients face when taking out a mortgage. Under an overhaul of NAR’s elections process, c...

As part of a campaign to increase professionalism in the real estate industry, the California Association of Realtors will soon publish the names and photos of members who violate the Realtor Code of Ethics in a members-only section of its ......

The National Association of Realtors expects to dip into its reserves as it boosts spending on its Realtors Property Resource subsidiary to $21.9 million a year for the next three years, so that RPR can add additional features and data sources ......

The National Association of Realtors’ board of directors approved an amendment today requiring multiple listing services to make it easier for brokers to use listing data to produce automated valuation models for their clients, after a push by ...

WASHINGTON — The National Association of Realtors’ board of directors today approved stricter “core standards” for associations that could fuel mergers across the country by expanding the list of programs and services that eve...