The company holiday party just got more interesting.
Stone Point Capital, owner of Lone Wolf Technologies, set to acquire CoreLogic.
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North San Diego Association of REALTORS – Administrative Assistant
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GAMLS chooses connectMLS
Georgia MLS Partners with dynaConnections to Provide connectMLS™
“Real estate professionals across Georgia will soon benefit from dynaConnections’ top-rated MLS platform, connectMLS. Designed with the end user in mind, connectMLS’s intuitive, feature-rich, and mobile-friendly solution provides Georgia MLS members an additional suite of tools to efficiently collaborate with their buying and selling clients.”
Big win for dynaConnections. Not clear whether this is a “system of choice” play or full conversion. The stated launch date is March.
Huge congrats to Tim and the rest of the dynaConnections team!
RE/MAX starts displaying buyer’s commission rate next to listings on their website
Nick Bailey, chief customer officer at RE/MAX in an interview from an Inman News story:
“And while other MLSs have followed suit in displaying the data publicly, RE/MAX publishing the data in its consumer-facing website and app in 65 markets is perhaps the largest single move to display the data yet.
Bailey was clear in conversation that displaying it or not was never RE/MAX’s decision. The international real estate franchisor just wanted to ensure when it inevitably becomes a requirement, the company was prepared, Bailey explained.”
Great leadership from Nick and RE/MAX on this issue.
One quibble, I would add an “i” information icon next to the rate, linking to some copy giving further context. But it’s a good start.
Also, from the story…
“Bailey, who is also a broker himself in addition to being a RE/MAX exec, believes displaying the buyers’ broker commission isn’t an overly monumental move, rather an evolution that has been happening for a number of years.”
He’s right, but more change is coming and RE/MAX is smart to start now so that everyone is prepared for the questions and challenges ahead.
Datafiniti receives cease and desist from Zillow to stop scraping their data.
Zillow orders data company to stop scraping its content
“Zillow sent a cease-and-desist letter this week to a data startup that, the letter argues, was improperly “harvesting” data from the online real estate giant.
The letter went out Monday to a company called Datafiniti. The Texas-based company offers “instant access to every data point on the web,” and claims to have data sets that include millions of people, products and businesses.”
Yowza! It appears that Zillow isn’t Datafiniti’s only target. Inman was able to find photos from Redfin, CRMLS, and CPAR (Central Panhandle). I did some poking around too and found photos from Trulia as well. So what did Datafiniti say when they were questioned about this?
“In a phone conversation Tuesday, Datafiniti founder and CEO Shion Deysarkar characterized the situation as a misunderstanding. He said that his company is crawling the web the way Google does as it compiles and creates search results.
“Instead of consumer search we’re providing more structured search,” Deysarkar said.”
A “more structured search” ????
Tell it to the judge, Shion. Tell it to the judge.
Hats off to Eric Stegemann of Tribus for connecting the dots on this story.
