Comments on: Online Real Estate Search in Canada: Example of Integration Bottlenecking And Innvocation Stifling http://blog.danzrobok.com/2008/06/26/online-real-estate-search-in-canada-example-of-integration-bottlenecking-and-innvocation-stifling/ Business Integration and SOA with an IBM WebSphere slant Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:55:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dan http://blog.danzrobok.com/2008/06/26/online-real-estate-search-in-canada-example-of-integration-bottlenecking-and-innvocation-stifling/#comment-402 dan Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:13:00 +0000 http://blog.danzrobok.com/2008/06/26/online-real-estate-search-in-canada-example-of-integration-bottlenecking-and-innvocation-stifling/#comment-402 Hi John, Thanks for the information and clearing up exactly who actually owns the data. I'm surprised that it's actually each local board that controls the data. That's a lot of elephants you have to get to dance to even to get the 'mls.ca' site that we're at now. Hi John,

Thanks for the information and clearing up exactly who actually owns the data. I’m surprised that it’s actually each local board that controls the data. That’s a lot of elephants you have to get to dance to even to get the ‘mls.ca’ site that we’re at now.

]]> By: John Pasalis http://blog.danzrobok.com/2008/06/26/online-real-estate-search-in-canada-example-of-integration-bottlenecking-and-innvocation-stifling/#comment-401 John Pasalis Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:32:21 +0000 http://blog.danzrobok.com/2008/06/26/online-real-estate-search-in-canada-example-of-integration-bottlenecking-and-innvocation-stifling/#comment-401 Hi Dan, The bottleneck is actually with the real estate companies, not with CREA. CREA doesn't own the data. The Toronto Real Estate Board at one point considered pulling their listings from MLS.ca because of disagreements with CREA. The local real estate boards and their brokerages own the data. While it may seem logical to you and I that real estate companies would want their listings on as many sites as possible, most real estate companies don't share this mindset. As I mentioned in my post, real estate brokerages don't even share their data with other brokerages. I think this is the first hurdle. They need to start sharing their data with each other. If we see this happening it will at least be the first step in ensuring that there's more online competition in the real estate industry. Hi Dan,

The bottleneck is actually with the real estate companies, not with CREA. CREA doesn’t own the data. The Toronto Real Estate Board at one point considered pulling their listings from MLS.ca because of disagreements with CREA. The local real estate boards and their brokerages own the data.

While it may seem logical to you and I that real estate companies would want their listings on as many sites as possible, most real estate companies don’t share this mindset.

As I mentioned in my post, real estate brokerages don’t even share their data with other brokerages. I think this is the first hurdle. They need to start sharing their data with each other. If we see this happening it will at least be the first step in ensuring that there’s more online competition in the real estate industry.

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