Bridge Interactive announces updates to modern real estate API

“ParityPlus is a significant release because it combines what many MLSs value about the older industry standard, RETS – customization, most notably – with the speed, familiarity and scalability of a modern Web API. The net effect will be to increase the ease with which real estate data is distributed, secured, shared and built upon.

For MLSs, that means Bridge API now will enable them to build custom data feeds and more tightly define what information is conveyed to specific data recipients. It will also add functionality that gives them more control and fewer limitations.

At the very least this seems to catch Bridge (Zillow) up with other industry offerings, most notably of CoreLogic and FBS. But they have also few other cool options. I’m told there are new features in the API specifically meant to help with data replication.