[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of GEM Diamond. Today’s showcase: Solid Earth] Creating technology solutions for MLSs and Realtor Associations, Solid Earth launched the first web-based MLS platform, List It, in 1999. Since launching the Spring website platform…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Perchwell] A business operating system, Perchwell, provides listing data management, search, and syndication plus collaboration solutions for residential real estate professionals and their clients. Its flagship MLS platform…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: CubiCasa] Floorplans are a very attractive listing feature for capturing potential leads. Utilizing mobile-scan technology to provide real estate agents and appraisers with an intuitive, easy way to…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: RealStaq.] RealStaq provides the systems and data building blocks required to develop and sustain scalable home shopping, renovating, and mortgage financing experiences. It licenses APIs that enable standardized compliant…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: FBS.] An employee-owned company with 40 years of MLS experience, FBS serves MLS and real estate professionals with a product suite that includes Flexmls, FloPlan, Spark, and Flexmls IDX….

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: RESO.] The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) is a non-profit trade organization that champions open standards in the real estate industry, specifically with respect to data. Originally created in 1999…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the Geek Estate Mastermind. Today’s showcase: W+R Studios] While success in the real estate industry relies heavily on your expertise as an agent, there is a large percentage that comes back to…

For brokers or agents who want to integrate their websites with local Multiple Listing Services in lieu of a canned IDX product, the landscape can be challenging for a number of reasons. Here are some of areas of concern to consider: Number of different Multiple…

Listing syndication is back in the industry purview: GLVAR (Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors) is stopping facilitating the syndication of listings to 3rd parties (notably, Zillow and ListHub). Thus, agents/brokers who want their listings on Zillow (and elsewhere) will have to either manually upload…

One of the sessions at Hacker Connect last week was a short interview with Seth Siegler, one of Geek Estate’s Mastermind founding members. Not all MLS access contracts are created equally. Field names can be, and are, different. Some systems only allow a single session…