Arguments about real estate data are conducted in a specialized vocabulary, and the vocabulary is doing real work. These terms decide who may see your home listing, who may build products from your sale price, and who pays whom for what.
That explains why brokerages want greater control before MLS entry, why portals insist on broad consumer access, and why MLSs find themselves caught in the middle.
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It all began around a campfire 29 years ago: 50 real estate leaders came together in a redwood grove in Sonoma County, California, for the first Inman Connect. There was so much to talk about the impact on the real estate industry of this new thing called the commercial internet.
In practice, it’s hard to reason about the “purpose” of a product as broad as ChatGPT, or the “purpose” of the entire internet. A better framing is: do the market harms from ChatGPT come from it producing substitutes that compete with the originals? Or is it an indirect effect, like a book critic review could have on a book?
The findings from San Francisco show that on-MLS listings consistently outperform off-MLS transactions in both sale price and transparency metrics.
That same mindset—the gardener’s patience, the musician’s persistence—is what I carry into my teaching, my writing, my work with real estate professionals. The through line is always cultivation: time, care, presence. It’s something I won’t give up.
Consumers want speed and convenience, yes. But they also want someone who understands their needs. The “why” behind the documents and decisions. The “how” behind the execution.
This requires a fundamental shift in how we think about professional value. It’s no longer about what you know that others don’t—it’s about how effectively you can apply that knowledge to serve others.
Current Class Action Civil Litigation to end the “Offer of Compensation.” Where, when, and why is the MLS an “Offer of compensation.” The Current Offer
“For real growth in the housing market to occur, mortgage originations need to increase substantially along with higher securitization volumes, and it doesn’t seem like
I agree with Ed’s approach that now is the time for serious discussions of the potential steps to consider if a settlement becomes a reasonable possibility.
