August 3, 2018 - Vendor Alley

BoxMLS Press Release

“Today, BoxMLS, a real estate technology company providing search and collaboration tools, announced the appointment of Kevin Hughes as Chief Executive Officer. He will assume responsibilities immediately and will succeed Brad Davis, who will continue as Chief Technology Officer.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this team of talented professionals,” said Hughes. “BoxMLS is truly taking the industry in a positive direction.” Chief Operating Officer and board chairman Jason Fayollat described Hughes as “a bold, battle-tested industry expert who will lead our charge into the national real estate technology landscape.”

It should also be noted that Kevin’s brother, Eric Hoglund, had previously joined BoxMLS back in December of last year. Can you say PRESTIGE WORLDWIDE!?

Congrats to Kevin and BoxMLS.

The shit is hitting the fan with the DOJ/FTC comments

Andrea Brambila, writing for Inman News

Zillow Strikes Back, Bashing Upstream and CAR in public regulator comments

“Zillow noted there are various barriers to listing data access that the company deemed “protectionist.”

“Some large brokerages refuse to provide all their listings to Zillow. If sellers understood that their fiduciaries were restricting data from appearing on the largest real estate site in the U.S., they would likely be upset. Initiatives like Upstream make the potential for such behavior more feasible and commonplace,” the company said.”

I agree. No matter the responses from Upstream, it’s always been about control of listing data. When Craig Cheatham, announced at the CMLS Conference in 2013 that “You’ve got 10 days!”, the sentiment wasn’t “You have 10 days, before we eliminate the need for double entry!”. It was, “You have 10 days before we start yanking our data!”

Kevin Hughes joins BoxMLS as new CEO

Zillow responds, calls Upstream “protectionist”