{"id":1200,"date":"2007-03-23T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2007-03-23T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:22:45","slug":"is-truliacom-in-the-mls-business-is-rebny-in-the-dumbed-down-listings-business-or-will-they-meet-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1200\/is-truliacom-in-the-mls-business-is-rebny-in-the-dumbed-down-listings-business-or-will-they-meet-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trulia.com in the MLS business? Is REBNY in the dumbed-down listings business? Or will they meet in the middle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trulia Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Trulia was selected by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), New York City’s largest and most prestigious real estate group, to power the first real estate search engine dedicated exclusively to New York City-based listings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More:<\/p>\n

What does this mean?<\/p>\n

For consumers, the new search engine will bring together residential property listings from REBNY-member real estate brokerage firms onto a single public Web site for the first time. For the non-New York readers out there…it’s worth noting that Manhattan’s hugely important real estate market does not have a widely used MLS that would allow access to all listings through any single Web site today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few dozen ambiguous fields is not an MLS system, but it’s better than what New Yorkers have now. And, who knows, maybe the horse will learn to sing…
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Technorati Tags: disintermediation<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trulia Blog: Trulia was selected by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), New York City’s largest and most prestigious real estate group, to power the first real estate search engine dedicated exclusively to New York City-based listings. More: What does this mean? 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