Jim Duncan

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jburslem: RT @mikesimonsen: Lots of people asked for my reaction to NAR's big RPR announcement. Here it is. http://bit.ly/3lPjXW - Jim Duncan

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mvjensen: Anything that resembles a National MLS is a waste of time! Real Estate is local... #nar09 #nardiego - Jim Duncan

1000wattmarc: @jeffreydouglass Thx Jeff. Real estate's history is filled w/gloom, doom & end of times commentary. Sensational, yes. But rarely accurate - Jim Duncan

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"Jim – If the data is sold back to the local MLS, what would be the advantage of continuing to use the MLS? I have everything I need straight from the source (RPR) in terms of data. The MLS in effect becomes a middle man between me and RPR, yet I have direct access to RPR. I fail to see how this can be a good thing for any MLS. My understanding is that the data will be coming from Realtor to MLS to RPR. The non-Realtor question is one I’m working through. This absolutely is a value-add that seems to imperial the non-Realtors. Hell, people pay for RealtyTrac, why wouldn’t they become a Realtor (which is easy and will hopefully soon be harder*) so that they can access what could be the best property database available? Surely Move would have something in their contract that keeps NAR from building a public facing website off of this. At least I would think they would. I don’t think we’ll see the death of Realtor.com because of this. I’d like to, but I don’t think it’s going to happen...." - Jim Duncan

"Suppose the MLS has to cut its fees to $20/month; what does that do to the various people who have jobs working at the MLS? What does that do to the various Association Executives who are drawing a salary from the Association, funded by the MLS? Perhaps the greatest enemy will be staff intent on furthering their (perhaps now obsolete) existence. That, combined with my guesstimation that fewer than 15% of Realtors care/understand/pay attention to this means that the evolutionary path may be slow." - Jim Duncan

"The “offers of compensation and cooperation” is significant, sure. I can think of no reason why NAR could not make that a rule as well. Of course, NAR has sworn up and down not to do such a thing to forestall the fear of the national MLS. However, the “offers of compensation” as nice as that is, is unnecessary to create a national MLS in all but name: case in point = Loopnet. This was one of the key points from the very beginning of the RPR’s conception – it was imperative that neither of these be offered. That said, I’ve heard minor waffling over the years … Inman ‘07 While the Gateway is not intended to be a national MLS, it could become one if that’s what participants want it to be, said Gary Thomas, a Southern California RE/MAX broker who leads the advisory group. That said, the tools offered by the RPR blow away anything and everything offered by my MLS. If nothing else, the RPR could render public (Associations’) MLS sites irrelevant. If Realtors get feeds through the MLS that..." - Jim Duncan