Broker Beat – April 2011

In The April Issue:

Making the Most of MLSListings

With market conditions and the weather both finally improving, the real estate industry is gearing up for what hopefully will be a busy and prosperous season. This issue of Broker Beat provides timely national and local market perspectives, social media tools and insights, important MLS updates and articles you can share with your clients as their trusted resource for the best real estate information.

Similarly, as your trusted professional resource, we at MLSListings want to ensure you’re taking advantage of all the information available to subscribers—helping you save time, improve relationships with your clients, and be as effective as possible as you build, manage and grow your business.

In addition to your own website, direct your clients to our public website, mlslistings.com, for the most timely and accurate real estate information — updated every 15 minutes with our original MLS data, monitored by our compliance department and self-policed by our subscriber community. It’s also a resource for industry news stories by local and national media outlets as well as a regular video market report on our homepage for you to stay up to date on the latest real estate news.

Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter – where we regularly post information of interest to subscribers and consumers. News stories including market forecasts, mortgage rates and economic headlines are relevant and timely pieces to post on your own site or share with agents.

Discover the REALTORS® Property Resource™, launched last fall with MLSListings as a pilot participant by the National Association of REALTORS. It’s an extremely valuable tool for providing an accurate pricing strategy for a property, and combining public tax data and county records with the most up to date MLS information. Click here for the latest update.

Go mobile with MLSListings via recently-added optimized browser versions of our products .In addition to Matrix Mobile, a slimmed-down, read-only version of our Matrix application compatible with Droid, Blackberry and other mobile devices that agents and brokers can take on the road with clients.

Explore our trusted partner relationships that you can leverage to your benefit. On our PERKS site we offer overviews and often discounted pricing on more than two dozen best-in-class business building tools such as Listingbook—a standout customer relationship management (CRM) tool for agents and brokers—along with complimentary consulting to design the package of products that best suits your needs.

The resources above are just a few of the many benefits of your subscription to MLSListings. We are committed to help you save time and money, allowing you to focus more time on your best asset – your relationship with your agents and clients. As always, I encourage your feedback on how we can further improve our service to you and best meet your needs.

Regards,

James Harrison, RCE, CAE
President and CEO
MLSListings, Inc.