MLS stakeholders take on syndication, public sites

Discussions focus on future of MLS.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cameron Paine, CEO for Connecticut Multiple Listing Service Inc., a broker-controlled statewide multiple listing service that launched in February 2007 said smaller MLSs are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

And what many MLSs don't seem to understand -- and vendors do understand -- is that "it's all about the data," Paine said.

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