RealTown's RealTalk

This smells bad, real bad.

So, I guess that www.realtor.com will only be showing the listings of Realtor® members from now on, too. 

Right?!  Wrong.

And who is going to compensate agents and brokers for the valuable URLs, domain names and websites that have been capriciously devalued overnight?

IMO- a perfect example of why smart brokers should band together, start broker owned listing services… and tell the Realtor® associations to go pound sand.

Jeff Beck

Melbourne Beach, FL

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The hearing panel disagreed with REALTOR® Z’s reasoning. While REALTOR® Z’s website included information about other participants’ listings that the MLS had provided – and that REALTOR® Z was authorized to display – the fact remained that a real estate–related URL that included the letters MLS would lead reasonable consumers to conclude that the website would be an MLS’s, and not a broker’s website. REALTOR® Z was found in violation of Article 12 as interpreted by Standard of Practice 12-10.