Principles
The Defining Moment of MLSs
This initiative exists to articulate the enduring responsibilities of MLS stewardship and establish a common foundation for MLSs regardless of ownership, governance, geography, or technology. It is a statement of identity: what an MLS is, what it protects, and what it is responsible for. It is offered knowing that those values have not always been honored as fully as they should have been. The purpose of naming them clearly is not to claim a perfect history. It is to establish a standard the industry can be held to going forward.
A Multiple Listing Service is the steward of a nimble and trusted real estate marketplace.
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The Keeper of Mendota Meadows:
The road nobody planned
The MLS industry is being reshaped by private listing strategies, changing rules around cooperation and public marketing, questions about who controls and licenses real estate data, and the rapid rise of AI.
Against that backdrop, Daniel Jones of Hive MLS has created a new Declaration of MLS Stewardship Principles – and MLS Constitution – that defines the core tenets of an MLS and establish a framework around which MLSs could create a Federation.
This certainly will be a hot topic at the upcoming CMLS Open House at the end of this month.
In the story below, written by Daniel Jones, he explores the fundamental question behind them: What should an MLS be responsible for protecting as the marketplace changes around it? – Kevin Hawkins, Partner, WAV Group.
The industry forgot MLS value.
Hive MLS CEO Daniel Jones has a fix
Daniel Jones penned a 'Declaration of MLS Stewardship Principles,' outlining 9 responsibilities
Multiple listing services have driven the industry’s biggest debates over the past year, as major brokerages and portals clash over market transparency, consumer choice, and who has the final say on the ownership and distribution of listing data.
However, Hive MLS CEO Daniel Jones believes that amid the noise, the industry has lost sight of the MLS’s true purpose, prompting him to publish the “Declaration of MLS Stewardship Principles” ahead of the Council of Multiple Listing Services’ annual conference next week.
