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VestaPlus wins integration award

VestaPlus wins “Excellence in Technology Integration” award at International MLS Forum

“Congratulations to VestaPlus™ MLS Software Solutions for winning the award:

Excellence in Technology Integration! ANNIE IVES CEO of VestaPlus received the award.”

Congrats Annie!

Lone Wolf expands deal with California Association of REALTORS

Lone Wolf Technologies and California Association of REALTORS® Expand Partnership to Equip Over 190,000 California REALTORS® with a Simplified Tech Stack.

“The new Lone Wolf Foundation includes tools such as Transact, Relationships and Deal Tracker, all aimed at simplifying deal management and enhancing client relationships. By integrating transaction management with a client-focused relationship platform, California REALTORS® can manage their entire business from a single, unified platform—empowering them to build stronger client connections and drive long-term success.”

Nice win! Looks like Lone Wolf’s Relationships is legit, straight off the heels of winning Inman’s Innovator Award for  Best Lead Servicing Solution. Great to start seeing larger deals like this happening again. Congrats CAR and Lone Wolf.

Industry Relations and Listing Bits podcast nominated for Inman Innovator Award

It’s nice to be recognized and it’s double nice to be recognized twice! Many thanks to Inman News for this nomination. Rob and I have been nominated several times, maybe this year is the year!

Congrats Eric!

Just love the smile of Eric Stegemann’s face after his company, Tribus, winning the Inman Innovator Award for “Most Innovative Client Experience Solution“. Well done!

Industry Relations named as finalist for Most Innovative Industry Podcast by Inman News

2024 Inman Innovator Awards finalists unveiled ahead of ICLV

“Inman Innovators include entrepreneurs pushing the old ways aside, data scientists discovering new ways to examine behavior, marketers reimagining how to showcase properties, teams reinventing how to communicate with clients, companies building advanced technologies, and brokerages and teams creating groundbreaking business models.”

Inman News

We were nominated last year but lost. Hopefully this will be the year. Thanks to everyone who nominated us!

Lone Wolf execs recognized in latest HousingWire Insiders list

It’s a bit late but I did want to give a shout out to my former colleagues at Lone Wolf for making the 2023 HW Insiders list. Aaron and Kyle are both great people and I enjoyed working with them side by side and happy they received this attention.

Industry Relations podcast is a finalist to win an Inman Innovator Award for top video or podcast

Speaking of Inman Connect, Rob Hahn and I are a finalist for and Inman Innovator Award for top video or podcast. This was a complete surprise and grateful for those who nominated us.

I’m not sure when they announce the winners but we have some stiff competition.

2020 HW Tech100 Real Estate winners

Lots of great companies were featured on Housing Wire’s Tech100 Real Estate list, including:

Black Knight, Bright MLS, CRS Data, Homes.com, Homesnap, MARIS MLS, Opendoor, Propy, realtor.com, Redfin, Referral Exchange, Redfin, Remine, ShowingTime, TrustFunds, VESTAPLUS, WiseAgent, W+R Studios, Zillow and many more.

“This year’s Tech100 winners blew past innovation, moving beyond innovation to transformation,” HousingWire Associate Magazine Editor Kelsey Ramírez said. “In both the real estate and mortgage sectors, fintech companies continue to create new ways to approach the housing process, improving efficiencies, cutting costs and creating a new experience for all parties involved.”

Congrats to all the winners.

Ernie Graham, Homebot CEO, named to HousingWire Vanguard list

Ernie Graham

Introducing the HW 2019 Vanguards – 50 executives leading the housing industry

“The HW Vanguard Award recognizes leaders of businesses contributing to the growth of the housing economy and its various sectors, including mortgage, fintech and real estate. And this year’s winners distinguished themselves as some of the top leaders innovating the housing industry today.”

HousingWire

Lots of great people on this list including Chris Heller, now of OJO Labs, Pat Stone of WFG, and Drew Uher of HomeLight. Congrats to Ernie and the rest.

Merri Jo Cowen awarded the Peter Shuttleworth MLS Executive Award of Excellence

Merri Jo Cowen Named Peter Shuttleworth MLS Executive Award Of Excellence Recipient

The Peter Shuttleworth MLS Executive Award of Excellence is an annual award that recognizes leaders who, through a rigorous nomination and review process, are determined to have observed the highest qualities of leadership within their organizations and demonstrated a dedication to excellence by making substantial contributions to the MLS industry.

I’m still catching up with news after a long trade show season. I was lucky enough to be at the MLS Executive Session to the surprise on Merri Jo’s face. Read the entire post from CMLS, she has accomplished so much and I have a feeling she is just getting started. Well deserved. Congrats Merri Jo!

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