Mls Real Estate Florida

The Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR) has released third-quarter statistics for home listings and sales in Naples in a new format, reflecting what the organization says is a more accurate and relevant portrait of the local real estate market.

RISMEDIA, November 6, 2006�ShowingTime, a leading showing management technology provider, has announced the addition of four new markets that are incorporating ShowingAssist into their MLS systems to help members manage showings directly through the MLS. The new clients include the Regional MLS of Florida, Northeast Florida MLS, and in Michigan Realcomp II MLS and the Jackson MLS.

The low-cost ShowingAssist service is now live in more than 20 MLSs representing an aggregate of more than 190,000 real estate agents in 12 states. First American MLS, Fidelity MLS, Rapattoni MLS, Stratus MLS and FBS Data Systems have all incorporated ShowingAssist into their MLS systems for interested clients.

By directly incorporating ShowingAssist with their MLS systems, MLSs allow members to work within the MLS system to automate much of the showing management process and reduce costs.

RISMEDIA, November 3, 2006�Connecticut Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (CTMLS), the newly formed statewide MLS, has chosen Cameron Paine as chief executive officer effective December 1, 2006.

Paine will be spearheading CTMLS�s efforts to provide and streamline real estate listing information state-wide. With the launch of CTMLS in late January, Realtor members and participants with CTMLS will be able to offer their clients greatly increased and highly accurate listing data across the state of Connecticut.

CTMLS represents the future of Multiple Listings Services. CTMLS Realtors will be able to both offer their buyers statewide MLS listing information, and offer sellers exposure for their listings to Realtors and their clients throughout Connecticut.

In his position as chief operating officer of the Bonita Springs-Estero Association of Realtors (B.E.A.R.) in Florida, Paine was instrumental in founding an MLS cooperative and MLS data sharing agreements with more than twenty other MLSs.

Despite the fact that a new real estate data-sharing alliance is already operating, a group of Sarasota-area brokers wants to launch a regional multiple-listing service that would also include Charlotte and Manatee counties.

The group announced recently that it planned a January meeting to introduce area Realtor associations to its concept. It also hired a nationally known real estate economist, John Tuccillo, as a consultant.

A multiple-listing service is a marketing organization in which brokers pool their listings in the expectation of attracting more potential buyers. They share commissions and the expense of operating the MLS.

Currently, all the MLSs in Southwest Florida are operated by local Realtors associations on behalf of their members.

But according to a statement in which it also announced Tuccillo's hiring, the Sarasota group envisions an MLS owned and operated by a consortium of brokers.