Zach’s Voice

From April 6th to 8th I’ll be in Washington D.C. with fellow Point2ers Adnan Fida and James Townley for the spring ‘09 RETS meeting.

We have been active participants in the Syndication workgroup and this year we’re looking forward to expanding our participation to include the Data Schema and Certification workgroups.

James is already there for a bit of sight-seeing. I won’t have as much time, but I also plan to squeeze some touring time in when I get there. I’m going to bring my camera so I can take a few pictures being that this is my first trip to D.C.  If I manage to take some nice ones I might even post them here.

Adnan and I will be flying out tomorrow morning at 6 AM. Unfortunately Jay Pepper-Martens is sick and won’t be able to make it this time, but he’s resting up and training hard for the next one.

Point2 syndicates hundreds of thousands of listings daily to over 300 marketplaces including Trulia, Google, Cyberhomes, Yahoo!, eBay, and many more.  A growing number of those listings come directly from MLSs through a RETS data feed.

A few weeks ago I was at Clareity Consulting’s Annual MLS Executive Workshop where I sat on a panel discussing listing syndication.

We were asked, “What is best for the seller?  To have the listings everywhere?  What are the drawbacks?”

In short, Point2 doesn’t believe there are any drawbacks for the seller.  Since consumers may go anywhere and everywhere, the easiest way for a listing to be found is for it to be everywhere.  Some consumers may like the Trulia heat maps, some may like the Cyberhomes interface, some may read one of the online newspapers HomeFinder publishes to, and some may go to REALTOR.com for the volume of listings.

Our CEO, Saul Klein, often says, “Distribution trumps Destination.” When one considers that according to Hitwise, only roughly 7% of the traffic goes to the top Real Estate Website and even the top 20 only attract less than half of the total traffic, it’s easy to see how true this is.

Point2 Technologies works directly with MLSs, REALTORs, and Real Estate Marketplaces to syndicate listings, and with 39 destinations Point2 has the largest syndication network on Earth.

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