[Rets-dev] The MLS Transaction Set

[Chris McKeever]

Dave - will you be attending the meeting this next week in Chicago?
the payload workgroup is actually working on payloads that describe a
property at that level, and listings branch off that, so - in theory -
one could see historical listing times of said property

On 8/4/07, Dave Sullivan <dave at zonar.com> wrote:
>
>  All:
>
>  The next issue I would like to discuss is the concept of MLS
> "transactions".
>
>  I submit that there is only one set of transactions that is native to the
> MLS - the publication of agency to sell a real property and subsequent
> updates to the status of that agency, including sale.  Everything else in
> the MLS is advertising or publication of information from other sources.
>
>  I believe we could come to agreement on the content of the agency
> transaction in a few hours, and we probably should.  This transaction needs
> to identify the real property, of course, by address, tax ID, etc.; but it
> doesn't need to describe it.
>
>  With this out of the way, the discussion of the rest of the content of
> typical MLSs could properly deal with its role as advertising; recognizing
> that brokers and agents must continue to find new and different ways to sell
> their inventory and services ... and that perhaps the MLS cannot keep up
> with the pace and pressure of the new, electronic marketplace.
>
>
>
>  Dave Sullivan
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