Jonathan Bowen | Hub Edge Realty | July 16th, 2018
Channel: Hub Edge Realty
Date: 16/07/2018

Jonathan Bowen talks about today's GBAR RealTour event, the Realtor's Property Resource (RPR) and MLS PIN syndication.

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Hey folks, how are you? It's Jonathan Bowen with Hub Edge Realty and I just wanted to talk to you today about, ahm, about my morning, I had, I attended the Greater Boston Association of Realtors RealTour event, R-e-a-l-T-o-u-r, it's a very punny name. Ahm, so I learned a lot of good stuff there, ahm, ahm, there was a woman from RPR which is, ah, Realtor Property Resource, which is, ahm, if you think about Zillow Zestimates, you think about, ahm, evaluation model, ahm, what this does is, this used, there's more data points then Zillow Zestimates, ahm, more accurate than the, Z..., ah, the Zillow's Zestimate and, ahm, the woman who spoke today, ahm, her name was, ahm, ahm, geez, I want to get her name, she was good, ahm, her name, was, ah, Veronica McManus and she was the New England Regional Directa, ah, Director, excuse me, that was my Boston accent popping out, for RPR, ah, Realtor Property Resource, ah, after she spoke, ah, we're gonna start, ah, Hub Edge Realty is going to start syndicating all of its listings to, ah, Realtor Property Resource which we hadn't done before, so we're gonna do that today, ahm, so the other person who spoke today was John Breault of, ah, he's the Director of Customer Support and Quality Assurance at MLS PIN, now, ahm, there's a big change going on at, ah, MLS PIN, ahm, so basically I'm gonna get into some Realtor stuff, some broker stuff that, ah, consumers really, ahm, it's really for brokers, ahm, but, you know, it's interesting, it's good for consumers to know about as well, so we have the option as brokers to syndicate our company's listings to third party sites, okay? Right now Hub Edge Realty does not syndicate any of its listings to any third party sites except for Realtor.com because of an agreement that the MLS, ah, that MLS PIN has with, ahm, a pre-existing, ah, agreement that, ah, Realtor.com has with MLS PIN so I have no control of that, ah, we also, ah, syndicate our listings to MLS PIN Homes, ahm, which, ah, I think, is mlspinhomes.com, I believe, so I'm gonna give you the list of the sites that we do not syndicate our listings to, okay? Ah... GeoHome, The Telegram & Gazette, Apartments.com, realFish.io, CLRsearch.com, The International MLS, HouseValueStore.com, SouthBostonToday.com, An Online Real Estate Magazine which is MLSHomeFinder.com, I can't even pronounce this one, ah, Wai... Waijule? w-a-i-j-u-l-e.com, ah, it says it's a, ah, the best real estate platform to meet Chinese buyers, ahm, so we do not syndicate to the New York Times real estate section, we do not syndicate to Zillow, ah, which includes Trulia, so it's actually the Zillow Group, we do not syndicate to Relola or Distinctive Homes Magazine which is DistinctiveHomesOnline.com, HomeFind.com, Homes.com, as I said, we don't syndicate to Realtors Property Resource or RPR but we are gonna, I'm gonna click that box today and we're gonna start sending our company's, ah, listing data there, we don't syndicate to SouthCoastToday.com, we don't syndicate to the Realtor Association of Southeastern Massachusetts, ah, I'll have to look into that one, I've never heard of that before, ah, The Boston Guardian, we do not  syndicate our listings to The Boston Guardian, we do not li..., ah, syndicate our listings to The Real Estate Book or MassLocal.com. Wow! There's actually a lot more of these, hold on..., ah, SuburbanRealEstateNews.com, we don't do that, MassLive.com, Boston.com, Banker and Tradesman, ah, we don't, ah, syndicate to Trulia Direct Reference or South Shore Realtors, ah, I'll have to look into that one as well, WickedLocal.com, we don't syndicate to, Homesnap we don't, ahm, syndicate to, Trulia.com, we don't syndicate to, and HomeFinder.com, we do not syndicate our listings to any of those sites, sorry to go through the entire list but it's, you know, they have a, they have a ton of, ah, ton of different, ah, excuse me, sites that you can, as a real estate broker, syndicate your properties to. Now... Why don't I allow our company's listings to be syndicated to any of those sites? Well... About ten years ago or so I had a listing on Turtle Pond Parkway in Hyde Park, ah, what happened was, ah, I was syndicating all of my company's listings to all third party sites at the time...