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Data & Standards
Saul & John

The Language of Data Series  |  PART 1 OF 7

The debates are not about technology. They are about which rights travel with which feeds, to whom, at what price. Read any new rule with the feed and license distinction in hand and it becomes legible. Read it without, and it looks like plumbing. It is not plumbing. It is property.

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Brokerages & Business Models
Saul & John

WHO GETS THE LISTING DATA?  |  PLAIN LANGUAGE SERIES  |  PART 1 OF 5

…because the database is built cooperatively, someone has to decide who gets to use it, for what purposes, and at what price. For most of a century that question answered itself, because everyone at the table was a working broker making the same trade. That is no longer true, and the argument about what to do about it is now the biggest fight in the industry.

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Real Estate Lawsuits and Trends

we thought you might like the following update of major real estate lawsuits and trends impacting  the residential real estate landscape. Here’s a list of relevant titles to review.

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Monetizing MLS Data

An early conversation about monetizing MLS Data with Walt Baczkowski, about 10 years ago. Point 2 had been recently purchased by Yardi. We did not

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Data Licensing

When the Feed Stops – Lessons from Zillow v. MRED and Compass

A well capitalized brokerage underwriting a single MLS’s national footprint challenges the geographic MLS model that has organized this industry for a century. Every regional MLS should be discussing what that means for its market, its Participants and Subscribers, and its future.

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