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MLS & Associationsmls data-sharingSelectstatewide mlsVCRDS
January 5, 2015

Brokers ask to data share with nation’s largest MLS

A data-sharing project from the nation’s largest multiple listing service is growing. California Regional MLS, which services more than 73,000 real estate professionals, and the Ventura County Regional Data Share, which has about 4,500 subscribers, have signed an agreement to import listing data directly from each other’s systems. VCRDS is…
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BrokeragerecruitingreportSelectsurveyTechnology
January 5, 2015

Special report: The shift toward independent brokerages

Independent brokerages are more prevalent now than they have been in a decade, and an Inman survey suggests that real estate franchisors will have to continue to fight to maintain their market share as more brokers question their value proposition (click to download full report and charts as PDF file).…
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InternationalSelectSouFun
January 5, 2015

Century 21 China Real Estate booted from New York Stock Exchange

Century 21 China Real Estate’s parent company, IFM Investments Ltd., has been delisted from the New York Stock exchange after its market capitalization fell below a required minimum. Trading in IFM Investments under the ticker “CTC” on the New York Stock Exchange was suspended after markets closed Friday because the…
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BrokerageSelecttrainingZillow
January 5, 2015

Former Zillow agent outreach manager joins eXp Realty

Brad Andersohn, former national outreach manager at Zillow, has joined eXp Realty International Corp. to lead an online agent training and support platform for the cloud-based brokerage. As the director of education and industry outreach at eXp Realty, Andersohn will lead a digital training program that will be available to…
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NARrealtor.comSelectTechnologytruliaZillow
January 5, 2015

FTC may approve Zillow-Trulia deal sooner than expected

The Federal Trade Commission is likely to sign off on Zillow’s proposed acquisition of Trulia and could grant early termination and close its review of the deal sooner than expected. The FTC “is likely to say there’s not a problem,” Notre Dame Law Professor and antitrust expert Joseph P. Bauer…
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Selectsmall talk big talkTechnology
January 5, 2015

Small talk, big talk: FTC gossip, the rental economy and a broker for consumer dashboard

Scuttle Heard from an industry fat cat (actually, more like a kitty) that the FTC has approved the Zillow-Trulia merger, and it will be announced soon. No surprises, if true. Big talk “The ‘sharing economy’ outed as the ‘rental economy.’ Nobody is sharing anything, people are making money, plain and…
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