REpod

Here is a confession you do not expect to hear from the person running an MLS. Angie Baker is Vice President of MIBOR's Broker Listing Cooperative, and she will tell you flat out that she has no idea how her own agents are searching for homes. "It's completely locked away," she says. Sit with that for a second, because the whole episode unfolds from it. Katie Smithson and Angie h...

Everyone says MLSs move too slowly, but this episode asks the better question. What actually has to happen before an MLS can make a big change, and who has to live with the results once that change is made? Because if you are a broker, agent, vendor, MLS leader, or anyone working in the industry, these decisions are not just headlines. They affect the tools you use, the data you trust, the support...

MLS support teams are drowning in documents, and their members can tell! Questions are answered differently each time they are asked. Justin Lundy and Shannon Baird decided this is a problem worth solving, and this episode walks you through exactly how AI should and should not be used with your MLS.  Katie Smithson welcomes Justin Lundy and Shannon Baird from Lundy for a conversation about AI, sup...

There is a lot happening behind the scenes in real estate right now, and most of it starts with data. Who controls it, who uses it, and who actually benefits from it have become much bigger questions than they used to be. Katie Smithson talks with Edward Zorn about a part of the business that usually stays in the background. What starts with data licensing quickly opens into a sharper discussion a...

RealReports has been digging into one of the biggest questions in real estate - what actually happens when a home is listed off the MLS instead of on it? Katie Smithson brings James Rogers into the conversation to talk through the research, where it started, and why the numbers are getting attention. James explains that the work began with MLS partners who wanted a data-driven answer instead of an...

Some conversations do more than introduce a guest. They open the door to a bigger story.  Welcome to the first episode of REpod, where Katie Smithson sits down with Art Carter for a conversation about the MLS world, who gets to shape it, and why this matters more than ever. Art talks about why so many industry conversations miss the mark and why he wanted a space that speaks from the MLS side out....