from REALTOR Mag | by Meg White | January 2014
Data standardization remains a challenge across various listing platforms, causing some to call for MLS consolidation.
The strain between brokers and agents was evident when the subject of the number of MLSs across the country was discussed at the MLS Forum at the 2013 REALTORS® Conference & Expo last November.
Sales associates are frustrated because they have to pay membership fees to more than one organization, and brokers often have difficulty coordinating data between disparate sources. Some brokers at the forum said they have members of two different associations in the same real estate office or listings that are directly across the street from each other appearing in two separate MLSs.
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