By Art Carter, CEO, California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS) RESO: From Stagnation to Success My history with the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) began with a lot of frustration and concern. At a 2008 COVE meeting, a brainstorming session took...
Meeting Also Set to Discuss Next Generation of Standards to Streamline Industry RESO heads to Denver for its 2018 Spring Tech Summit from April 24–26 at the pop-themed Curtis Hotel. More than 250 real estate technology leaders from real estate brokerages, Multiple...
By Jeremy Crawford One of the most exciting things about new technology is watching all the various ways companies leverage innovations. Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), pioneered by Salesforce in 2000, continue to drive innovation in all industries,...
Guest blog by Jamie Moulton, Senior Content Curator, JustProperty.com Technology has conquered almost every industry field, and it is time for the real estate industry to rise and shine. Technology has made it easy for both real estate agents and potential homebuyers...
By Jeremy Crawford Over the years, RESO has wanted to more fully answer a common question prospective members have: What is the real value of RESO to my business? It’s a question particularly vexing for budding, bootstrapped start-up tech firms. It would make my...
RESO announced the results of its Board of Directors election and appointments of directors, as well as its 2018 officers. “Testament to the growing success and influence of RESO, this board election attracted the largest number of candidates ever to vie for open RESO...
By Jeremy Crawford MLSs with well-documented business rules can move to a new MLS system, add additional front-ends or integrate other software that also requires use of business rules with a lot less friction and do so much more swiftly than MLSs that do not. That...
Guest post by Jim Vogel RESO is an independent, not-for-profit trade organization previously part of the National Association of REALTORS®. RESO works to develop, adopt and implement data standards and processes for all real estate transactions and seeks to streamline...
By Jeremy Crawford The first time you attempt anything is a risk. But when you back that risk with $25,000 in cash prizes and invest $15,000 in hosting the event, you are especially delighted when the result is a success. Everyone involved in the RESO DataComp at our...
Bridge Interactive® was the first company to earn the RESO Web API Platinum Certification. Real estate professionals accessing listing data via the Bridge API have the ability to access any authorized field in the MLS database in one place, with one API call....
By Jeremy Crawford One of the big challenges that any MLS organization faces is implementing change. No one likes to rock the boat, especially in an industry that has fueled more than one million independent contractors. It’s hard enough telling someone who is...
By Jeremy Crawford Real estate standards are coming of age with the massive number of potential benefits to brokers, agents and consumers that both the RESO Web API and Data Dictionary 1.6 update are going to deliver. The time for real estate brokerages and brokerage...
900+ Added Data Points Include New Accessibility, Showing Data, Saved Searches and Internet Tracking Features RESO announced the biggest update in the history of its RESO Data Dictionary, which serves as the real estate industry’s “Rosetta Stone” by...
Guest blog entry by Gary Ashton, REALTOR®, The Ashton Real Estate Group of RE/MAX Advantage Green is the color of the year, and it promises to loom even larger for the foreseeable future. As a real estate agent, if you’re not up on green technologies, and the...
When you bring together the talents of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Home Energy Information Accelerator folks, the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), the Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR),...
At the RESO 2017 Spring Summit in Austin, Texas, Paul Stusiak, Falcon Technologies President and Chair of the RESO RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard) Workgroup, summarized the latest improvements to RETS with the release of RETS 1.9. Many of the same updates for...
The MLS, a Southern California-based MLS, has been awarded RESO’s Data Dictionary 1.5 Platinum certification, the highest level of certification offered by RESO. The MLS earned this level of certification for its internal system, as well as for the Palm Springs...
Don Thibeau, The OpenID Foundation, with Jeremy Crawford, CEO, Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) One of the sure signs of increasing momentum is when other standards organizations adopt yours. And it’s particularly noteworthy when that adoption not only builds...
Rapattoni Corporation announced that the High Desert Association of REALTORS® in Hesperia, California, is among the first two MLSs in the nation to achieve official Real Estate Standards Organization’s (RESO) Data Dictionary v1.5 Platinum certification. HDAOR serves...
UtahRealEstate.com became the first out of more than 750 MLSs in the nation to achieve the highest compliance standard set by the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), Data Dictionary 1.5 Platinum. UtahRealEstate.com is the largest MLS in the state of Utah,...
RETS has been a solid technology standard for 15 years, and many vendors are resistant to make the change to API. But as the needs of mobile shift the industry, a new “interstate” is necessary. Jeremy Crawford, CEO of RESO, discussed the details of this...
At its sold-out 2017 Spring Technology Summit in Austin, Texas, RESO honored more than two dozen of its leaders and members for their outstanding personal contributions with its 2017 Spring Tech Summit Awards. Collectively, these individuals contributed thousands of...
Launches New Automated Testing System to Speed Up New Standards Adoption in Real Estate MORRISVILLE, NC–(Marketwired – Apr 5, 2016) – The real estate industry’s Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) is launching a new automated data...
The key to the success for the future of all real estate brokerages will be data standards. This is not hyperbole, it is a fact, and let me explain why. Today real estate brokerages struggle with profitability. Shrinking margins have become the business norm. To keep...
Joining the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) may be one of the smartest tactical moves that a real estate startup can make, according to the leaders of two hot real estate tech startups. Both Krishna Mayala, cofounder and CEO of TLCengine, and Charles...
