RAHB will be part of an expanded regional MLS® database as early as spring of next year.
RAHB and the three other STARRS associations (Niagara, Brantford and Simcoe) will be joining with the Oakville/Milton, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph real estate associations to create a new regional MLS® database. This new shared database will allow members from all eight associations to access listing information from any of the eight regions.
CoreLogic, RAHB’s current MLS® supplier, is building the regional database on the new Matrix platform. The new Matrix system is proving to be a more intuitive, user-friendly system than Fusion.
All eight associations will be equal partners in this new venture. Representatives from each association have already met to work out the data sets, data forms, the business plan, rules and regulations and MLS® policies. It has been agreed that members of all associations will use the same data forms and be subject to the same rules and regulations.
RAHB’s Board of Directors has appointed two members – the MLS® Chair (currently Sean Morrison) and member-at-large Dan Gies – to the governing board of the regional database.
Watch for more information in the coming months.