Just Pick Whatever Showings Technology You Like Best

Later this summer Realtors at West + Main Homes will have a choice to pick between ShowingTime or BrokerBay for managing showing appointments. We will support both.

It’s extraordinarily awesome for your MLS at REcolorado to be evaluating new vendors that provide showings services to Realtors in Denver. Showingly is another one integrated recently.

Even though ShowingTime and BrokerBay and other options coming to the market seem wonderful and may get the job done - we think it’s best for our Listing Agents to decide.

It’s important to know you aren’t being forced to decide between one or the other at this time.

Since we haven’t used BrokerBay to set up a listing or schedule a showing yet -we think Agents will get plenty of opportunity to decide which tool is better for them once everything goes live.

Buyer Agents should prepare to see listings managed in both BrokerBay and ShowingTime and will have to learn two systems as they navigate a new period where Listing Agents have choice.

Ultimately one day we’d love to see “interoperable” showings for MLS subscribers and allow Agents to choose their preferred software for both scheduling and managing showings.

We work for that future today as a member of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO).

Competition and collaboration are needed so that listings, contracts, and showings products are differentiated and improve the experiences offered to customers in the real estate market.

We trust our Agents to let us know what is working and will help them every step of the way.

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And if you’re concerned about Zillow buying ShowingTime we had a conversation about that here

West + Main Homes Joins The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO)

West + Main Homes is proud to announce that we have officially joined The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO). While the beauty of RESO is in the details of the data - we thought it’d be useful to explore what this means in simple terms for our agents and peers.

RESO is a powerful central technology body made up of devoted industry titans and champions. A volunteer board of directors facilitate rapid real estate innovation with input from The National Association of REALTORS®, Zillow, the MLSs, and the hottest emerging startups. Compass, Redfin, and other top brokerages have a presence among indies like us.

We believe the future of real estate is growing with possibilities not only to strengthen existing models, but to introduce new and complementary ones too. Houses are an exciting asset class that support a robust and competitive industry needing a modern infrastructure to balance on.

Real estate technology is extraordinary in scope, yet still has a long way to go. There are thousands of vendors that help power agents and brokers and still thousands of roadblocks we need to overcome if the marketplace of housing services is going to evolve for the better.

The opportunities are endless in Colorado, where software for forms and showings are limited to singular options. Our primary focus at RESO is on the Broker Advisory Workgroup surfacing use-cases from the field to help inform members designing technical standards that allow for choice and interoperability in a marketplace of products that agents and clients love.

In addition to participating in workgroups and conferences, we’ll be among the first brokers to complete the RESO Education Course: Working With Real Estate Data (WWRED) this year.

It is possible RESO initiatives will shape a future of transparency for real estate data and fuel products that provide equitable access to homeownership benefits and wealth to more people.

We hope that other independent brokers wanting to contribute to the future of real estate technology join us too. RESO is under the smart and capable leadership of CEO Sam Debord, a top broker from the Greater Seattle area with a deep understanding of the entire landscape.

Agents - we’ll continue to update you on RESO initiatives through the year and are always available as a resource for any of your technology needs. We are interested in your feedback and requirements for tools that you rely on to serve and delight your networks and customers.

West + Main Homes is a proud new member of RESO. We’re excited for what’s ahead!