Many say the value of today’s real estate agents lies not in controlling consumers’ access to data, but in making that data understandable and useful.
But agents’ most important technology tools — multiple listing services — are stuck with retrograde technology and an unwillingness to do one thing that would likely make agents’ lives easier: consolidate.
Two initiatives from the National Association of Realtors may help with one issue, but those initiatives might simultaneously exacerbate the other issue, according to a Data-Sharing_Dilemmas-CCRE_Whitepaper.
“The MLS simply has not evolved with how real estate needs to be practiced today, with severe fragmentation complicating the progress of a modern, industry-owned model for modern times,” the report said.
