Broker Warns MLSs: Help Us Compete Against Zillow or Lose Us
. Multiple listing services need to either meet agent needs and help them compete against tech giants like Zillow or lose them to something like a national MLS, Courtney Poulos, broker-owner at Los Angeles-based ACME Real Estate said at Inman Connect on Tuesday. Poulos spoke in a session called “What is the Role of the MLS?” along with Denee Evans, CEO of the Council of MLSs (CMLS) and moderator Kendall Bonner, a broker at RE/MAX Capital Realty in Florida. In a lively discussion, Poulos took MLSs to task because of the lack of choice involved in using an MLS: Agents align with a brokerage...