After disappearing for a time after the launch of the initial test last December, real estate listings are back in mobile Google search results in some markets. Just like the initial test, listings appear under sponsored search results, and they include a full property detail page, links to request a tour, contact an agent and, […]
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Virtual staging — once a simple tool for digitally adding furniture — is rapidly evolving into a powerful and sometimes controversial force in real estate marketing as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes what’s possible. To understand where the line is drawn between enhancement and misrepresentation, it helps to start with the people who enforce the rules.
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Just two days after filing a breach of contract suit against CoStar and Homes.com, REcore Solutions has dismissed its claims with prejudice. This means that it cannot file a lawsuit against the same defendants with the same claims. California Regional MLS (CRMLS), which receives licensing services from REcore, informed members on Thursday that the suit
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According to Craig Cheatham, the president and CEO of The Realty Alliance, if you were to assign a Facebook relationship status to the relationship between MLSs and brokers it would be “it’s complicated.” “The MLS is at once the most valuable tool of the broker and, at the same time, it is the thing at
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For many in the multiple listing services (MLS) industry, Monday’s announcement that Compass was acquiring Anywhere served as a wake-up call of sorts. Over the past year, Compass has worked to grow its stockpile of exclusive listings, but many did not consider the Robert Reffkin-helmed firm a serious threat to the MLS structure, due to
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