Wednesday, November 23, 2005

California in a single database?

RISmedia published an interesting article on the efforts of the California Association of REALTORS to integrate seventy or so MLSs into a single database. Read the full article: http://rismedia.com/index.php/article/articleview/12611/1/1/

Here are a couple highlights:

Agents would pay one fee and access all data statewide.

There would be one set of rules.

The industry needs its own version of what consumers have in the form of realtor.com. The primary obstacle is that MLSs use different data, formats, and software.