RESO Monthly, January 2025: Dues Deadline, Tucson Registration, Election Results and More!

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Last Call to Renew RESO Membership

Keep your organization at the forefront of real estate tech by ensuring that your 2025 dues are paid in full. Complimentary certification, discounted conference pricing and having a voice in the future of data standards are just the beginning of your member benefits.

Membership gives you access to products, companies, conversations and decision makers that drive productivity in your company. Make sure your renewal is confirmed and keep reaping RESO benefits!

If you need to update your primary contact, have issues logging in or need help with membership renewal in any way, please call 919.504.6235 or email Brian Ohnesorgen at membership@reso.org.

RENEW ONLINE NOW | MORE INFO

RESO 2025 Spring Conference: Standards in the Sonoran

Registration is open for the RESO 2025 Spring Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 15–17, at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa.

Reserve your spot today before prices increase in February! | ALL EVENT AND REGISTRATION INFO

Daily Agenda

Monday, April 14: Welcome Reception
Tuesday, April 15: Pain Points, Sessions, Web API Office Hours, Evening Reception
Wednesday, April 16: Roundtables, Awards, Sessions & Workgroup Meetings
Thursday, April 17: Transport Workgroup Technical Day, Adjourn at Half-Day

New this year: Due to the technical sessions on Thursday, hotel rooms in the RESO block will be limited on Wednesday night in anticipation of a smaller group. Please consider your specific situation when booking your hotel.

Secure Your Company’s Stage Time

If you have a compelling business or technology story about how data standards are revolutionizing real estate, submit a presentation request by February 28. | SUBMIT A SPEAKER REQUEST

Lock in Your Sponsorship Visibility

Sponsors are given ample opportunities to showcase their brands and products for MLS and brokerage leaders from the U.S. and abroad. If you’re interested, contact advertising@reso.org.

Industry News

Donate Now to Help California Wildfire Victims

More than 200,000 Los Angeles area residents have been displaced in one of the most devastating wildfires in California history. Urgent assistance is needed to help the Los Angeles area recover and rebuild from the overwhelming destruction.

The California Association of REALTORS® Disaster Relief Fund was established more than 20 years ago in the wake of a previous round of devastating wildfires. The association is again ready to support neighbors who have experienced loss due to the recent wildfires. Please help them continue their efforts by making a tax-deductible contribution to the fund. | MORE INFO

The REALTORS® Relief Foundation also exists to help those in need, and the National Association of REALTORS® is covering 100% of administrative expenses in order to allow for 100% of your donations to support families impacted by this disaster. | MORE INFO

Your 2025 RESO Board of Directors

The results of the RESO 2025 Board of Directors election were announced for five open seats, director appointments and the board’s Executive Committee for the next year. | FULL STORY

Representing MLSs and REALTOR® Associations:
John Breault, VP, MLS, State-Wide MLS in Rhode Island
Greg Moore, CTO, Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) in Oregon

Representing Technology Companies, Developers, Partners and Consultants:
Michael Hayes, Executive Director, Industry Development, Homes.com

Representing Real Estate Brokerages, Brokers, Agents and Appraisers:
Caitlin McCrory, VP, Industry Relations, Anywhere
Joe Wilhelmy, VP, Business Technology, RE/MAX

At-Large Appointments:
Richard Renton, CEO, Triad MLS
Matt Hendricks, Senior Director – Industry Affairs, Zillow
Patrick Pichette, VP, REALTOR.ca, Strategic Business & Innovation, Canadian Real Estate Association
Dan Troup, CEO, Broker Public Portal
Ross Buck, CEO, Omni MLS (Board Advisor)

Executive Committee:
Chair: Rebecca Jensen, President and CEO, MRED
Vice-Chair: John Breault, VP, MLS, State-Wide MLS
Secretary: Melissa King, COO, OneKey MLS
Treasurer: Richard Renton, CEO, Triad MLS

Continuing 2025 Board Members:
Matt Cohen, Principal, Advisory Services, CoreLogic
Katy Davenport, Director of Product Management, First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS)
Bob Evans, SVP, Industry Relations, Move
Shayne Fairley, COO, Stellar MLS
Alex Lange, Head of Strategy and Innovation, National Association of REALTORS®
Janine Sieja, SVP, Product Development, Realtors Property Resource® (RPR)
Joseph Szurgyi, CEO, MLS Grid
Dan Weisman, Director of Innovation Strategy, National Association of REALTORS®
Michael Wurzer, President and CEO, FBS

Term Ended: Shaun York, Executive Director of Technology, Homes.com.

Pictured left to right from top left: (Row 1) Rebecca Jensen, John Breault, Melissa King, Richard Renton, (Row 2) Alex Lange, Bob Evans, Caitlin McCrory, Dan Troup, Dan Weisman, Greg Moore, (Row 3) Janine Sieja, Joseph Szurgyi, Joe Wilhelmy, Katy Davenport, Matt Cohen, Matt Hendricks, (Row 4) Michael Hayes, Michael Wurzer, Patrick Pichette, Shayne Fairley, Ross Buck.

Product Updates

Data Dictionary

The following topics are due for a vote in the next Data Dictionary Workgroup meeting:

Data Dictionary Subgroups

Bulk Sale: A Package Sale Shape is taking shape.

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU): The Additional Living Quarters (ALQ) Shape is being finalized and will be emailed to the subgroup for review and virtual vote.

Fast Track: Review of the Fast Track Potential Data Dictionary Additions sheet is complete, and several new lookups will be suggested to the Data Dictionary Workgroup as part of New Lookup Considerations from Fast Track Subgroup.

Versioning Policy: A subgroup will be formed to review Data Dictionary versioning, handling duplication and deprecation of duplicate data elements. Posts will be created in the Data Dictionary Workgroup and Transport Workgroup discussion forums to solicit participation.

Alignment Reports

RESO Provider and Market Alignment Reports are officially for sale. Industry Alignment Reports are free to RESO members within RESO Analytics, and Consumer Alignment Reports are coming soon. | DETAILS

Certification Update

Data Dictionary 2.0 and Web API Core 2.0.0 are the latest RESO standards. RESO Common Format (RCF), Add/Edit, EntityEvent/Webhooks and Validation Expressions are additional certifiable endorsements. All results are viewable in RESO Analytics.

The Data Dictionary 2.0 certification period is in full swing. Here are some new additions.

First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS)
Florida Gulf Coast Multiple Listing Service
MIAMI REALTORS® MLS
Northwest Ohio Real Estate Information System (NORIS)
Savannah Multi-List Corporation
San Diego MLS

There were also two new Web API Add/Edit 1.0.0 endorsements:

Realtyna
San Diego MLS

View the certification status of all MLSs on the RESO Certification & MLS Map. Send address or subscriber count changes to membership@reso.org.

Questions about RESO certification should be directed to your MLS vendor. Questions about self-testing or the technical aspects of certification may be directed to dev@reso.org.

New Members

Association of Interior REALTORS®
The Association of Interior REALTORS® is a member-based professional association serving approximately 2,500 REALTORS® who live and work in a variety of communities within British Columbia.

Gitcha
Gitcha allows users to browse and post in a live real estate network for consumers, agents and investors where buyers and renters can publicize what they are looking for in an open forum, making it fast and easy for homeowners and their agents to find and connect with them directly.

Welcome to RESO!

RESO@

RESO representatives will be at Inman Connect New York, January 22–24, and at MLS Reset in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 27–29.

RED

Start the year right with a group investment in RESO’s Working with Real Estate Data – Business (RED-B) course, the best primer for understanding how data flows through the industry.

The RED course is popular with organizations onboarding new employees and volunteer leaders, and many companies have made it a default training course. Add RED-B to your new staff and volunteer leadership onboarding strategy.

RED-B is designed for both nontechnical and technical professionals and covers the organizations, rules, processes and technology systems that create the real estate data ecosystem, offering graduates a RED-B designation upon completion of the self-paced online course.

MORE INFO | SEE THE COMPLETE LIST OF RED-B DESIGNEES

Three Questions

The Three Questions interview series introduces you to real estate professionals with a hint of personality and humor. Watch for new entries every other Friday.

VISIT THE THREE QUESTIONS ARCHIVE

RESO Workgroup Meetings

Transport Workgroup | November 4, 2024 (1 of 3)
The Transport Workgroup discussed upcoming features and testing rules for the next version of the Data Dictionary, to be released in Spring 2025. Testing the accuracy of Days on Market (DOM) and Cumulative Days on Market (CDOM) for certification purposes was also covered. | NOTES

Certification Subgroup | November 21, 2024
A new field will be added for the upcoming FrontageLength type change instead of changing the type of the existing field to allow migration to the new field without causing breaking changes for existing implementations. The group also approved cross-validation of Country and StateOrProvince fields and PropertyType and PropertySubType starting in the next Data Dictionary release. | NOTES

Research & Development Workgroup | December 5, 2024
The group voted to combine the two active new construction business cases and recommended that a Data Dictionary subgroup take it on. A recap on the Unique Licensee Identifier (ULI) was provided, including that it is currently in use by two organizations. A request for a Client Contracts enhancement to the Contact Resource was discussed and handed off to the Interoperability Workgroup for further vetting. | NOTES

Interoperability Workgroup | December 10, 2024
User stories and use cases for RESO Common Format (RCF) were discussed and recorded. The group recommended that a panel of RCF-certified organizations speak at the RESO 2025 Spring Conference in order to expand interest and adoption. Client Contracts were discussed, including potential interest, existing implementations and a plan to seek out additional implementations. | NOTES

Bulk Sale Subgroup | December 11, 2024
The group covered the potential structure of a package sale shape, assuming that all components of a package sale would have a record in the Property Resource linked to a PackageSale shape with a ListingKey (self-referential table). | NOTES

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Subgroup | December 12, 2024
The group reviewed the Additional Living Quarters (ALQ) Shape proposal and made changes regarding Boolean fields that could be duplicative with lookup fields. Fields were added regarding living area (total, below grade, above grade) and lookups to communicate whether the ALQ has its own separate heating and/or cooling system. | NOTES

Transport Workgroup | December 16, 2024 (2 of 3)
The group reviewed the updates included in the Data Dictionary 2.1 Proposal (RCP-52), the In-Progress Provenance Proposal, the DOM/CDOM Calculations and DOM/CDOM Auto-increment Proposal (RCP-51), as well as testing to ensure that APIs have accurate DOM. | NOTES

Fast Track Subgroup | December 17, 2024
The group completed reviewing the Fast Track Potential Data Dictionary Additions sheet, which shows non-Data Dictionary lookups with more than ten implementations that were found during the mapping-suggestions process. Several new lookups were voted to be suggested to the Data Dictionary Workgroup, which will be added to New Lookup Considerations from Fast Track Subgroup. | NOTES

Broker Advisory Workgroup | December 18, 2024
The group discussed changes to their business processes that have taken place since the NAR settlement. Pain points about brokerage uses of MLS data feeds were shared, along with wants and needs that can address them. | NOTES

Data Dictionary Workgroup | December 19, 2024
The Data Dictionary meeting covered a Proposal for Modifying RESO Data Dictionary (DD) Versioning Policy and its goal of getting MINOR changes into the Data Dictionary at a more frequent pace while keeping MAJOR changes less common. The group reviewed a document on versioning, deprecation of duplicates and implementing “passed” (not yet ratified) data elements that outlines potential ways to address duplication and the ability of Data Dictionary users to adopt new changes early. | NOTES

Transport Workgroup | January 6, 2025 (3 of 3)
The group reviewed [RCP-52] Data Dictionary 2.1 and the [RCP-51] DaysOnMarket Client Auto-Increment Proposal. Visit the Transport GitHub Discussions to read about and comment on topics. The group also considered whether or not more frequent MINOR Data Dictionary versions should be released as opposed to larger MAJOR versions that have breaking changes. | NOTES

Upcoming RESO Workgroup Meetings and Key Topics

Here is a list of meetings on the slate for the next month, including the major topics for discussion. Join a workgroup to be part of the conversation! Members can review workgroup agendas in the RESO Workgroup Collaboration System.

Jan 14: Interoperability – Exploring RCF Best Practices and Client Contracts
Jan 15: Internet Tracking – Continued tracking of standard usage, tracking use cases and privacy matters
Jan 16: Data Dictionary – Make decisions for Attached/Detached Garage, Master/Primary Bedroom and priorities for 2025
Jan 16: Certification – Data Dictionary testing rules
Jan 21: Fast Track – Review potential Data Dictionary additions
Feb 3: Transport – Next edition of Data Dictionary, Days on Market
Feb 6: Research & Development – Data Consistency and Integrity Business Case and call for new business cases to review