Samantha Minns Samantha Minns

Sidekick Announces Landmark Collaboration with BeachesMLS

Sidekick, the pioneering generative AI assistant designed to elevate the productivity and effectiveness of real estate agents, teams, and brokerages, today announced a collaboration with BeachesMLS. This collaboration marks Sidekick's entry into the East Coast and Florida markets, bringing its cutting-edge integrated datasets and AI workflow tools to over 43,000 subscribers across Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie counties.

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Samantha Minns Samantha Minns

Positive News for Buyers and Sellers in 2024

National Association of Realtors®(NAR) Chief Economist Lawrence Yun predicts that home sales will rise to 4.46 million by the end of 2024, which is a 9% increase compared to 2023. In other good news, U.S. News Senior Real Estate Economist Patrick S. Duffy reported that interest rates are expected to slowly decline over time, which will encourage migration and the listing of more homes.

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Samantha Minns Samantha Minns

AI and AR Are Making an Impact on Real Estate

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) joined tech leaders as they took the stage at the recent Realtors® Legislative Meeting to discuss the integration of cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) into real estate practices. The panel explored how these technologies are transforming the industry, highlighting the importance of embracing new technology. The quicker Realtors® can adopt new technologies, the quicker they can become experts with the most powerful marketing tools at their fingers.

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Samantha Minns Samantha Minns

Test Your Knowledge with BeachesMLS Video Series

We understand that navigating the MLS can be extensive. There are MLS fields, rules, regulations, and compliance to consider. That's why we've produced a video series that highlights important MLS topics and provides solutions to common misconceptions. This series was created to offer you support, making your journey through the MLS more straightforward.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

Cooperative Compensation Rule Change

In accordance with NAR’s recent interpretation change regarding Cooperative Compensation, starting October 31, 2023, BeachesMLS will allow its users to enter $0 or 0% in compensation fields for all listings.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

TechCon surges into the future with AI in mind

South Florida's jam-packed annual real estate tech conference, TechCon, is returning on June 28 to the Boca Raton Marriott. Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors® and BeachesMLS, one of the top progressive MLSs in the nation, along with its YPN, is proud to host its annual conference offering tech solutions to stay equipped in today's shifting market.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

BeachesMLS launches partnership with Xomio

BeachesMLS, a subsidiary of Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors®, announces its new partnership with Immobel, the company behind Xomio. Xomio delivers Immobel's two decades of experience building luxury websites and handling global listings data for the world's biggest real estate brands, in an easy-to-use, intuitive website builder for agents and brokers, for the very first time.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

The Secret to Finding Your Dream Home and the value of the MLS

Have you ever spent hours searching for the perfect house but come up empty-handed? Or worse, have you ever found your dream home only to discover that it was already sold? If you've experienced either of these scenarios, you can learn more about the Multiple Listing Service, better known as the MLS.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

BeachesMLS will Soon Join the Nestfully Consumer Portal

Nestfully is a consumer facing website that is owned and operated by MLSs on behalf of the brokerage community. Nestfully delivers millions of residential property listings and a wealth of information to home buyers and sellers from the definitive source — the MLS.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

Supra Sharing: Be Smart, Don't Start

Supra KEYs are crucial to our real estate industry. Not only do they make it convenient to show properties, but they give homeowners peace of mind knowing that only authorized subscribers have access to their home and that all showings are tracked.

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Anthony Acevedo Anthony Acevedo

A Clear Victory for MLS Cooperation

A federal judge dismissed the case, saying NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy, which limits pocket listings, isn’t an antitrust issue. PLS.com, a pocket-listing service, alleges that NAR designed a stricter pocket-listing policy to damage its business model and discourage listings.

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