I am often surprised at the low percentage of REALTORS (or industry members for that matter) who know about the benefits of RETS. The recent CRT Survey shows that adoption of RETS in the industry is accelerating (currently 63% of all MLSs), but the awareness by REALTORS if RETS is available is extremely low (a whopping 4%).
Now, RETS on the lowest level is a technical specification, and understanding it at that level isn’t the intent. Understanding what it means to the industry, how it can streamline the way listings are pushed from system to system, and more importantly how it effects the services and applications which are built for the REALTOR membership is something that we can not stress enough.
