I read about the outlawing of web site URLs in listings on the “Welcome to Tempo” page of the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Services (ARMLS), but I wasn’t certain it meant what it seemed to mean. Since I have been a Realtor, we have promoted our single-property websites in the remarks section of the listing, as have many other agents. It seemed odd to me, given how anal ARMLS had been about contact information in virtual tours, but I thought it was a laudable concession to real life in the third millennium.<\/p>\n
We talk in web sites — Bloodhound Realty does, particularly. We live in webbed-wide world. This is news to no one. The appropriate way to talk about houses is in web sites. Hurray for ARMLS! It doesn’t really “get it,” but it gets at least some<\/i> of it.<\/p>\n
Not so.<\/p>\n
Comes today this email:<\/p>\n
Thursday, March 06, 2008<\/p>\n
Gregory Swann ABR CRS GRI,<\/p>\n
Our new iCheck program identified the following Error. The Error and any related verbiage was removed on Thursday, March 6, 2008. <\/p>\n
MLS#: 0000000 TEMPORARILY OFF MARKET\/RES
\n Error: MLS Rule Error (000)
\n Description: Prohibited URL<\/p>\nNo further action is required by you at this time.<\/p>\n
Thank you for complying with the ARMLS Rules and Regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me. I understand, I just don’t approve.<\/p>\n
First<\/i>, this is an artifact of the co-broke, the archaic practice of buyer’s representatives being paid by the listing agent<\/a>. If commissions were divorced, all of the Top Secrets of the MLS system — every one of which is a violation of the buyer’s agent’s fiduciary duty to put the buyer’s interests ahead of all others (which most certainly includes<\/i> the seller and the listing agent) — would be swept away like the dusty relics of the anti-capitalist era that they are.<\/p>\n
Second<\/i>, the specific purpose of forbidding web site URLs in listings is to impose an artificial chokepoint on the free market<\/a>. Buyer’s agent’s seek to hold their own clients hostage in the transaction. In order to secure their own compensation, they will withhold the fact of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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