I’ve been thinking……..about the future of a National MLS and public sold data.

It probably won’t be very long before Realtors are no longer the keeper and sole distribution point of the information regarding real estate data.  Remember the old MLS Books!  Now those were the days when agents had full control of ALL the data.  As a matter of fact before that the Agent who had the listing was the only person that knew about the house being for sale because there was no book to publish to the other agents.  Now fast forward to a few years from now: Client will have full access to all listings, pendings, and SOLD property data.  The question is what will they do with that information with out knowledge of the market, real estate cycles, marketing, staging, negotiating and so on?  Watch this video for my thoughts.

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