Trulia forms MLS advisory board
Real estate tech brief
By Inman News, Wednesday, February 4, 2009.Online real estate search and marketing site Trulia.com today announced the formation of an advisory board composed of representatives for multiple listing services, and the release of a paper on MLS listing syndication.
The Trulia MLS Advisory Board "will work closely with Trulia to ensure that company offerings and policies continue to meet the unique marketing needs of MLSs and their broker members," according to the announcement.
Trulia and other online real estate sites, among them Zillow and Cyberhomes, have sought to expand their universe of searchable properties by working on syndication deals with MLSs.
Realtor.com, a leading real estate search site that is operated by Move Inc. through a contract with the National Association of Realtors, receives data feeds with property listings information from hundreds of multiple listing services across the country.
Members of Trulia's MLS Advisory Board include: Russ Bergeron (CEO, SoCal MLS); David Charron (CEO, MRIS); Kathy Condon (CEO, MLSPIN); Carl DeMusz (CEO, NORMLS); Bud Fogel (CEO, MRED); Lloyd Graves (president, RealAlliance Consulting LLC); Jim Harrison, CEO (MLSListings Inc); Sami Inkinen (chief operating officer and Trulia co-founder); and Mark Weiss (Trulia's director of business development).
Also, Trulia has released a list of the top-10 most popular searched real estate markets at the site in January. Chicago topped the list, followed by New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Philadelphia, Miami, Queens and Las Vegas.
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Submitted by Kevin Schmidtchen on February 4, 2009 - 4:26am.
Makes sense. If you are looking for the MLS here in the Santa Barbara and Montecito CA areas, feel free to go to:
www.SantaBarbaraRealEstateVoice.com/mls
Kevin Schmidtchen
Sotheby's Int'l Realty
Santa Barbara, CA
Submitted by Michael Wurzer on February 4, 2009 - 5:03am.
What would be great is if Trulia would implement the syndication data standard they helped develop through RESO. Also, it would be great if the key syndication recipients (Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, Yahoo!, Google, etc.) could agree on a transport standard to ensure the data stays up to date and accurate.
Submitted by Mott Marvin Kornicki on February 4, 2009 - 2:27pm.
Syndicating with the hundreds of MLS boards throughout the country would be a fine idea! The potential issues are that the data found in the MLS is often corrupt, inaccurate or no longer on the market.
Indeed, if the MLS were held to stricter standards- it would be an ideal situation.
MIAMI MLS http://waterwayrealty.sef.mlxchange.com
Mott Marvin Kornicki, Broker/Associate
www.WaterwayRealty.com
305.935.3533 Main Line
http://www.Hybrid-MLS.com
Submitted by Lloyd Graves on February 4, 2009 - 3:56pm.
Michael,
The standard we are suggesting in the Advisory Board Guide is targeted more toward an operational/implementation standard versus a meta-data standard. As far as I know, Trulia has implemented the RETS standard for data management.
The work the RESO group has and is doing is a huge part of any listing data solution and I thank all those involved for their hard work.
Lloyd Graves, Trulia MLS Advisory Board Member
Submitted by Joseph Ferrara on February 5, 2009 - 7:58am.
Hopefully, the Advisory Board will recommend, in the holy name of transparency, Trulia publish their local MLS coverage so consumers will know whether to spend (or waste) their time on the site.