merged!

Learned from a press release dated today that the merger is signed--as of last week. So the story continues with the continuing saga of the statewide MLS (that isn't) and still has no name. Anyone heard of branding?

A little over a year since the Fresno fiasco. The tech world has spun around a few times and the vendor has done a phoenix bird (I lived in Scottsdale for 30 years, adjacent to Phoenix---those birds are important--done a few phoenix moves myself over the years--LOL).

What will the MLS arena look like this time next year? Interesting question, but I suspect it won't look a great deal different---- and if it does it won't be due to a statewide MLS that isn't.

Technology will win in the end and it will win with the consumers driving the process. Buyers will eventually get what they want, regardless of the machinations of the real estate industry and trade organizations. Buyers are smarter and more tenacious than the real estate community by a wide margin. They are interested in buying the RIGHT HOUSE EVERY TIME, whereas the industry just wants them to buy a house. Buyers have far more at stake than a commission and they will increase their influence on the industry in the near future. Those within the industry and among the related information services that assist in that process will prosper. Those who continue to pursue control for the sake of sustaining the existing industry structure and it's trade institutions will see that control slip away. Business follows buyers and so do agents.