RESO membership includes the vast majority of Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) in North America, from large regional cooperatives to local REALTOR® associations that own and operate their own MLSs to independent MLSs.
Our member organizations create the foundation for a streamlined real estate technology industry. Real estate agents expect a seamless technology experience today, just as consumers do. RESO standards allow an MLS to deliver that experience.
MLSs that adopt standards at a high level see massive efficiencies in working with technology partners. This allows an MLS to onboard tools faster and at a lower cost. The reduced integration times and staff support requirements create opportunities to add more innovative tools that support agents, brokers and MLS staff.
In fact, MLSs have the ability to influence innovation by asking data partners to adopt standards, attend RESO events and become members. The most innovative MLS strategic plans include a component on engaging data partners about the benefits that RESO provides.
Benefits
- Build your brand as an innovative MLS: The industry’s MLS leaders are forging ahead with data standards initiatives. Be known as an organization that brings new innovation to your membership first by highlighting your RESO leadership.
- Shape the future of MLS tools: Take a seat at the table where decisions are made that will directly impact your business’s technology.
- Build or buy tools that scale and integrate faster: Through standards, MLSs have access to tools that create more efficiency in the office and productivity for agents and brokers. The MLS can adopt tools that exist in other markets at a much faster rate.
- Provide more insights through accurate data: MLS statistical tools and agent collaboration tools can provide broader and more insightful reports through standardized data.
- Understand technology’s path for strategic planning: Technology is a critical component of an MLS’s future, and RESO members can find a competitive advantage through understanding what’s coming next.
- Network with the industry’s technology and MLS leaders: The industry’s most forward-thinking organizations come together at RESO’s meetings and events. Members enjoy the featured speakers, presentations and engagement at RESO’s highly collaborative conferences. Conferences also include lively receptions, free meals and the famed Bloody Mary Bar. | EVENTS
- Workgroup meetings: Become involved in online and in-person meetings that serve as our incubators for innovation. RESO’s workgroups include thousands of volunteer participants from MLSs, website providers, app developers, server vendors, brokerage staff and more | EXPLORE RESO WORKGROUPS
- Pricing benefits: RESO members receive discounted registration fees for RESO events and enjoy complimentary certification.
Certification
MLSs certify their systems to be compliant with RESO standards. A RESO certification is a badge of honor for a system that technology developers and brokerages can rely upon to be interoperable with other tools. The goal of certification is to bring a technology experience to real estate that consumers and professionals expect.
MLSs that are owned and operated by REALTOR® associations are required by policy to comply with RESO standards.
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